… or resting in the foliage. If you happen to come to the exhibition just after a rain shower, and the sun is shining, it’s your lucky day, because love is literally in the air. I remember one day in the … exhibition when the weather was lousy. It had been raining all morning. While the volunteers and I huddled around in our ponchos, the butterflies were fine, hanging out in the trees, …
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… April's only full moon is lovely enough, but the upcoming one is a gift from nature—and the perfect time to take a night walk. On Monday, April 26, head outside to see the "pink" supermoon. Whether you prefer to walk in solitude or with …
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… Titan Arum The buzz on corpse flowers Something extraordinary is in the air. Our corpse flower ( Amorphophallus titanum ), affectionately named Ugly Duckling, … the end found its true self. That’s when we discovered we had a titan arum, one of the largest and rarest flowering plants on the planet. This incredible bloom won’t last long, so catch it while you can. Stop by the Tropical Greenhouse and experience the magnificence of the plant world. The Garden has many Amorphophallus species in …
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… Compact white fir ( Abies concolor ‘Compacta’) is a round evergreen conifer that can reach 8 feet in height and width with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. The flat, upward-pointing needles are an unusual shade of pale …
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… Chicagoland area—sometimes in the same week. In the meantime, the lawns are greening up, and the tulips, daffodils, winter aconites, and dwarf irises are blooming. In the past week, … forsythia bushes began unfurling their flower power in shades of bright yellow. " Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party. " — Robin Williams, American Actor While I’d like to … ground. The temperature near the soil surface can be colder than that just a few feet above. Official Illinois weather monitoring stations are placed five feet above the ground. At that …
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… the hospital, National Jewish Health. After I got the call, I looked into the hospital, which is known worldwide for treating patients with respiratory, immune, and related disorders. In the girl’s case, the doctors apparently had a list of potential … were testing, including Thujopsis , a rare evergreen shrub that is native to Japan. A hospital official began the search for the plant with a colleague of mine at the Denver Botanic Gardens. …
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… Garden has earned a Gold LEED rating from the U.S. Green Building Council for the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center. The Plant Science Center received points in six categories including sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, … were used in landscaping, reducing the need for irrigation by half, and no potable water is used for irrigation. Water Use Reduction The building will use 30 percent less water through …
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… Climate Change in My Backyard Activity Descriptions Unit 3: Earth system responses to natural and human-induced changes In Unit 3, students learn about how living things and ecosystems … will reflect back on these ways and determine which adaptations could benefit a plant that is exposed to a changing climate. Activity 3.2: Seasons of a Plant Students are introduced to the … groups, or individual students choose what plants they will collect data on, create a Budburst site, and decide on a data collection protocol and schedule, in preparation for the growing …
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… Unit 3 Climate Change in My Backyard Activity Guide Unit 3: Earth system responses to natural and human-induced changes In Unit 3, students learn how living things and ecosystems respond to and are impacted by changing climates. Students learn about how plant … use the keys to identify the plants that they will be collecting data on for Budburst. This is an outdoor activity, but can also be done inside on collected or purchased flowers/plants. …
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… Step past the sleepy stone lion, breathe in the cowslip primrose, and listen to the water trickle into an eighteenth-century lead cistern—the feeling is as timeless as the tiny thyme plants growing between the hand-pressed bricks. So how do we preserve that timeless feeling while making sure the Helen and Richard Thomas English Walled Garden withstands the rigors of time? Work is underway to …
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