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  • The Garden Shop
    Type: Layout Page
  • Epimedium 'The Giant'
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Paeonia 'The Fawn'
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Wildlife in the Garden: Protecting your Plants
    … “wait and see” to determine whether the plants can recover. “There’s not a lot you can do at this point but make a note for fall to protect the plants. For now, it’s scout and monitor your garden once or twice a week.” Be Proactive Tiddens is taking preventive measures before critters can damage the Garden’s new spring plantings. “We …
    Type: Plant Info
  • Make Way for Monarchs Symposium
    Type: Event for Calendar
  • School Gardens Outside the Box
    … school can have a traditional school garden, but that doesn’t mean gardening with students is impossible. Learn about different ways to envision a school garden, from growing vegetables in … your resources and needs. Discuss ways to use those gardens to reach SEL and academic goals for all. Bring plants with you after the program to get started at school or at home.  ISBE PD Hours: 6, Gateways: 6 Grade level: preK …
    Type: Item Detail
  • Feeding the Birds: Seeds, Shrubs, Berries
    … This is the quiet time of year, when we put our gardens to bed. All the hustle of summer planting, … addition to our gardens in winter. Unlike spring—when they’re busy singing, looking for a mate, and building nests—in winter, a bird’s main activity is to find and eat enough food …
    Type: Plant Info
  • Use Them or Lose Them: The Plants in your Spice Cabinet
    … plants collectively known as the spice cabinet. Tucked away behind a drawer or door front, this collection of dried plant leaves, flowers, seeds, and barks is a must-have in American kitchens: full spice racks are prized as wedding gifts and … with outdated, past-their-prime products instead of fresh flavorings. January is a great time for smart gardeners—and smart cooks—to assess, re-assort, assemble, and plan for a useful and …
    Type: Plant Info
  • A Walk through the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden
    … Strange, but true. This beautiful garden of edible plants is as much of a pleasurable stroll garden as any of the … or the Landscape Gardens . They all feature individual garden rooms filled with gorgeous, best-for-the-Midwest plants, meandering paths, tidy brick-edged beds, fountains or pools, welcome …
    Type: Walks
  • O, Tannenbaum: Cone-Shaped Conifers for Your Front Yard
    … 'Tis the month for the holiday lights to come down from the attic and to go up on the trees outside, which makes … garden. With leaves long gone from deciduous trees and perennials sticklike and bare, December is a good month to assess your yard/garden hardscape. Pyramidal or cone-shaped conifers are iconic this time of year, and they can anchor the winter garden in a way that other shapes can't. Might …
    Type: Plant Info