… The Sovereign pin oak is differentiated from the species due to its lower branches being carried horizontal to the trunk rather than drooping. Its dense branching habit in an arc of angles makes its crown …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Tough Love spiderwort is a Chicagoland Grows® selection. Chicagoland Grows® is a plant introduction partnership of the … the Morton Arboretum and the Ornamental Growers Association of Northern Illinois formed to promote plant cultivars that perform well in northern Illinois. This variety was developed at … the Chicago Botanic Garden from two Great Plains species that are naturally found in full sun to light shade on barren, dry, rocky, clay to sandy soils in contrast to most commercially …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This low-growing evergreen shrub needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a maximum height of 2 feet. It is a effective ground cover. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This pyramidal evergreen conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of less than 6 inches. It is a specimen in a hedge. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This clump-forming evergreen conifer needs full sun and moderate moisture conditions to reach a height of about 4 feet. It is a specimen in a border. …
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… College First High Schools Each summer, Chicago Public School students travel to the Garden by school bus from designated stops to participate in the Science First and College First programs. Over 500 students participated in … the Science Career Continuum program from over 100 different public schools in Chicago. Below is a map of College First participants’ schools. [gmap …
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… The first species in this genus to be discovered, it produces large, fragrant, showy white or orchid colored flowers during … certain age, this was the favorite flower for high school dates. Difficult but not impossible to be grown by homeowners, the following approach has produced repeat bloom. Once temperatures in … number of genera, each with its own unique characteristics. A common characteristic, however, is the basic form of the flower, which consists of three petals surrounded by three sepals -- …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Elisa Tersigni began studying carillon seven years ago, when a friend introduced her to the instrument. She became a Carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America in 2020 and is currently studying with Eddy Mariën at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium. She has … in Belgium, Canada, Japan, the UK, and the US. When she’s not playing carillon, Elisa is a researcher of rare books and currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of …
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… By midsummer, this tidy perennial bears a cloud of white to light blue flowers that float above shiny, mint-scented leaves. A great front-of-the-border plant, calamint is deer resistant and drought tolerant. “It blooms for an incredibly long time and is a favorite of many pollinators. No garden should be without it,” said Jill Selinger, manager …
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… name from the bulbils produced freely near the bracts at the base of the flowers. This species is stemless, the leaves forming a dense rosette from which the flowering spikes emerge in mid-winter (mid-summer in its native Madagascar). The brilliant red flowers are attractive to the Madagascarian equivalent of hummingbirds. The origin of the Aloe genus name is unclear, with Greek and Hebrew allal (bitter) and Arabic alloch (bitter) all contenders. …
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