… and people. Please contact Plant Information Service for the most current chemical options from the University of Illinois Extension. …
Type: Plant Info
… but it should not be a reason to panic. Learn how to identify wild parsnip with this brochure from the Minnesota Department of Transportation: …
Type: Plant Info
… may not survive. Treatment & Solutions The verticillium wilt fungus cannot be eradicated from the soil, and fungicidal treatment of infected plants is ineffective. Wilted branches should …
Type: Plant Info
… support for France during the Napoleonic Wars. Due to his education, Dr. Wallich was released from prison and continued to work in India under the auspices of the East India Company. He …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… pods. Overall habits of the plant are broad-rounded mounds to vase-shaped and range in height from two to five feet. Baptisia are considered easy-to-grow, sun-loving, long-lived perennials …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Acknowledging Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month If you removed Asian plants from the living collection of the Chicago Botanic Garden, the experiences and beauty we offer … their origin to Asia, and more than one-third of all plant cultivars in our collection emanate from the same source. What would the Garden look like without Asian plants? Spring would have no … a visual framework. Asian plants enrich our tables as well. The list of culinary vegetables from Asia is exhaustive. Wheat and barley originated in western Asia, and rice in the east. …
Type: Blog
… and the other Asian. Both are small orange beetles with black spots—almost indistinguishable from one another. In late fall, many homes are invaded by the Asian ladybird looking for a place … waiting for some unwary insect to come along and become its next meal. Mantises are anywhere from ¾-inch to 5 inches long and will eat anything they can handle, even other mantises. …
Type: Plant Info
… big boys of spring are the flowering bulbs. The Garden has thousands and thousands of them — from eye-catching tall hybrid tulips (consider these beauties as annuals) to the true perennials … changing color wheel and adds a flurry of floral drama. Hues of Blues Another wildflower from out of state is the beloved Texas bluebonnet ( Lupinus texensis ), one of six species of …
Type: Walks
… in summer and confirm the identity of this unknown plant. Splendid Views The splendid views from the Dwarf Conifer Garden to the Malott Japanese Garden encompass a broad expanse of white … horizon, are the massive trees of McDonald Woods, brown, leafless, and silent when viewed from afar, with the three islands of Sansho-En appearing as soft meringue pillows floating in …
Type: Walks
… we know very little about their origin because of the scarce early fossil record, mainly from lowland tropics. The new fossils were collected from extensive coal and clay open-pit mines in Colombia and are about 58 to 60 million years old, from the Paleocene epoch. During this period, the world was under a greenhouse event and was also …
Type: Research
