… Description: This state-endangered heron is rarely seen along the shoreline or wading in the water. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This state-endangered bird is often seen hovering and diving into the lakes for fish. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This rare, state-endangered, tern species is likely to be seen flying over the Garden. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This rare migrant and potential breeder is most likely to be seen in McDonald Woods. …
Type: Birding
… The Garden is open until 9 p.m. from June 1 through September 2. Click here for more information. …
Type: Event for Calendar
… This pyramidal evergreen conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It is a specimen shade tree. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This pyramidal-shaped evergreen needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions. It is a specimen in a hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… O’Hare International Airport. Sometimes called the living rock cactus, Ariocarpus fissuratus is prized by collectors who either don’t know or don’t care that the plant is critically endangered. To meet that demand, unscrupulous plant dealers pay local people to … try to slip them past U.S. Customs to feed an international black market. This illegal trade is so lucrative that nearly a third of the world’s cactus species are now endangered . Contraband …
Type: Blog
… spaces where people and plants mix comfortably. An integral feature of successful garden rooms is lighting. Garden lighting is both a technical subject, concerned with volts, watts, conduits, and infrastructure, and an … in a garden from one area to another. Lighting can say "welcome" if the front entrance is lit or "not welcome" if the entrance is dark, even if the garden beds are lit. It can pull us …
Type: Plant Info
… the horticultural and the culinary. Of the few orchids that are used as edibles worldwide, one is world-famous and probably already in your kitchen cabinet: Vanilla planifolia . One of the 110 species in the orchid genus Vanilla, V. planifolia is a vining orchid that's indigenous to Mexico. Its flower, a lovely greenish-white orchid … with yellow, produces a fruit/seedpod (technically a capsule) that, when cured and dried, is familiarly called a vanilla bean. Once upon a time in a land far away... Vanilla was …
Type: Plant Info
