… must be carefully sited. It grows best in sandy, somewhat acidic soil with protection from drying winds. SHADES OF GREEN There is even variation among the green-needled conifers. …
Type: Plant Info
… sun: If you choose to leave your plant indoors during the warm months, move it a few feet away from the window to avoid burning the stems. If the plant is moved outdoors, it still needs …
Type: Plant Info
… on her fun and fragrant project. She’s making more than 400 wreath and garland decorations from a no-bake “faux dough” made of just two all-natural ingredients, cinnamon and applesauce. … first question: Where do you buy a whole pound of cinnamon? Nancy orders bulk cinnamon online from San Francisco Herb Company. Any house-brand, non-chunky applesauce can be used. Since these … cinnamon all over it. Heavily dust your rolling pin with cinnamon as well. Remove the dough from the bowl, set it onto the surface and coat the top generously with cinnamon. Roll dough to …
Type: Blog
… We humans have used technology to become masters of communication. But we are far from the only species with an impressive array of “superhuman” abilities. Butterflies have … is in here!” The butterflies easily home in on these markings and land on the flower petals. From there, another unique ability helps to ensure the butterflies find what they’re looking for. … sources that do not have UV patterning, like rotting meat. (Yes, butterflies derive nutrients from deceased animals.) Butterfly wing scales as seen under a microscope. Photo credit: Thomas …
Type: Blog
… visit the Garden’s Semitropical Greenhouse, you will see Sprout , the latest corpse flower from the Garden’s collection of 13 titan arums to begin a bloom cycle. Our corpse flowers ( … the plant did not flower . Corpse flowers are native to Sumatra, but Sprout was grown here from seed the Garden received in 2008 from the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. Learn about the titan arum’s …
Type: Blog
… such as L. canescens . To be incompatible means a stigma will not accept pollen produced from stamens on the same plant. Only pollen from stamens of a different plant will fertilize the stigma, which ensures cross pollination. Only pollen from thrum flowers is compatible with the stigmas of pin flowers and vice versa. Therefore, both …
Type: Blog
… Do you see something pushing up from the ground that looks like the claws of some creature in a zombie movie? Does it smell bad … ecologically brilliant prelude to the wildflower riot about to burst forth on forest floors from the McDonald Woods at the Chicago Botanic Garden to area preserves. It’s a welcome sight to … look going on,” Tankersley said. “It’s warm, which means there’s something decomposing, from a fly’s perspective. And then of course it smells bad. So there’s your triple play: ‘You …
Type: Blog
… Liz Rex is the horticulturist for the Crescent, which welcomes visitors entering the Garden from the Visitor Center; and the Esplanade, which is the lawn area where music events such as … the maintenance of the Graham Bulb Garden, Aquatic Garden, and Viburnum Walk. Rex graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a bachelor of science degree in horticulture. She …
Type: Staff bio
… Chicago Botanic Garden scientists received a grant from the National Science Foundation to collect and study fossil plants from Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, China. The three-year grant to Patrick Herendeen, Ph.D., and …
Type: Research
… In 2018, the Donnelley Foundation awarded $66,000 to investigate how well seed collected from native plants along roadsides and other tough habitats can germinate and persist in … leads the project, said, “We have millions of acres in the United States that would benefit from restoration with native species, but we currently lack the resources, including native plant …
Type: Research
