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  • … Student Guidelines For the health and safety of students and staff, we have made some changes to our operations. … state guidelines, students and instructors must wear face coverings over their mouth and nose for the duration of class. The Garden will not provide a face covering; please bring your own. Should you need to take a break for a drink or snack, kindly step outside or into the hallway to do so. Long classes will have …
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  • … April 26 – 28, 2013 Chicago Botanic Garden Glencoe, IL Download a registration form (due April 1, 2013) … or double including breakfast. Group name: Midcontinent Paleobotany Colloquium. Deadline for reserving hotel room: April 5, 2013 Program: Friday evening: Reception at the Chicago Botanic …
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  • … was called coral bells. Decades and dozens of hybrids later,  Heuchera  spp. is as well known for the striking colors of its foliage as it is for its long lasting flowers. Thanks in part to the aggressive breeding, tissue culture … place is shared by two plants: 2.  Heuchera sanguinea  'White Cloud'  Height is shorter at 26 inches, with light green foliage and white flowers that appear earlier in June through late …
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  • … sunny days, the other petals open wide, releasing their fragrance and inviting pollinators to visit. Snowdrops are an ideal selection for naturalizing under large deciduous trees like oaks and maples. Their very short growing …
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  • … endless photographic opportunities with the architecture and city scenes of Chicago. We will visit Chinatown, Millennium Park/Lurie Garden, and Navy Pier to capture the sights of the city. … landscape and hardscape photography. Class is limited to DSLR or mirrorless cameras. Dress for the weather. Students will need to purchase water taxi tickets on two of the days that the …
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  • … their connections to plants, by studying how to save native bees and sourcing milkweed seed for monarch habitats. Monarch Habitat Restoration Efforts Monarch butterfly numbers have dropped … change may lead to the local extinction of mason bees native to the Southwestern U.S. The good news? He sees potential for the bees to adapt — something he hopes to investigate in the future. Native Bees and Urban …
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  • … This species of bladdernut from the eastern Caucasus region is grown for its very fragrant white flowers that produce ornamental "bladdernuts" that persist well into … species was grown in containers so it could be brought indoors and forced into flower early for its very fragrant, honey-scented flowers in the ancient kingdom of Cholchis (the same kingdom visited by Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for a golden fleece). Pickled new shoots of this species are a delicacy of Georgian cuisine. …
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  • … whenever I smell hawthorn flowers, I’m transported back to that woods. My parents took me to visit Mitchell Park Conservatory and Boerner Botanical Gardens. Boerner Botanical Gardens … to head out of the city to northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula or northern Michigan for camping, canoeing or hiking. Later, we moved to (almost) rural New York where, my sister, … intimately familiar with the acres of woods, fields and streams behind our house, disappearing for hours to explore our private, imagined world. As an adult, when I had the opportunity at the …
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  • … our research ecologist Jacob Zeldin and the managing ecologist (listed below) responsible for the natural area(s) where you would like to work. In your email, please address the following … removed and work with the research ecologist to ensure relevant data and metadata is shared for our records. You will also be asked to submit annual reports to FPCC; please copy the … and research ecologist on these reports when you submit them.    Contact Jacob Zeldin for all research in our natural areas,  and include the managing ecologist of the area(s) you’d …
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  • … with its twisting, corkscrewlike branches makes a very attractive and interesting focal point for the winter garden,” says Jill Selinger, manager of continuing education. …
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