… guest in a radio talk show in Spanish where she shared gardening tips and answered questions from the audience. One of the highlights for Gabriela was participating in a plant-collecting … of Georgia, where Garden staff obtained more than 100 collections of wild-collected plants from the Caucasus region. In her current role, she maintains the accuracy of all the data in the …
Type: Staff bio
… degree in landscape horticulture, with a concentration in nursery and greenhouse management, from Colorado State University. Pollak writes for newspapers and other media and appears …
Type: Staff bio
… are cultivated throughout the tropics. By collecting location data, herbarium samples, and DNA from plants, the goal of this project is to produce a comprehensive taxonomic revision of …
Type: Research
… Southeast Asia. The Atlas moth lives for one to two weeks, so its main purpose after emerging from its cocoon is to mate. Most moths do not have functioning mouthparts, and the Atlas will not …
Type: Blog
… in restored plant communities, as most—especially those in highly degraded systems—are started from seed, as well as to conservation projects that rely on seed or seedling introductions. We …
Type: Research
… so you’ll often find their tracks at the base of a tree; sometimes, there will also be tracks from a dog that chased the squirrel up a tree. The larger back paws of the squirrel may be ahead … footprints often appear ahead of the front feet in their tracks. Rabbits come out of hiding from bushes or other sheltered locations, so you will have most success finding their tracks near …
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… a mucilaginous sap that, for all you farmers out there, resembles bovine saliva as it drips from the broken leaf. A volunteer who worked with me on the Dixon Prairie called the plant … stems and leaves are pale green, slightly glaucous (light grayish color often resulting from a waxy surface), and nearly hairless. In fact, the hairiest parts of the plant are the long …
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… while your jack-o-lantern is on display. While most of the pumpkins carved for HallowFest were from outside growers, each year, Obenchain tried to grow a few giants of his own in friendly … Garden staff members. That year, he planned to grow another ‘Atlantic Giant’ with seeds saved from the thousand-plus-pound monster—if the raccoons don’t get it first! …
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… in either January or February. Chicago’s record year was mirrored globally. Scientists from both NASA and NOAA released reports showing that 2016 was the hottest year since global … will allow you make observations on the same plants throughout the growing season, from budburst to leaf fall. Your phenology observations can help scientists understand how plants …
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… Rocks’). The key to establishing the plants in a gravel garden is to prevent the root balls from drying out until they have a chance to root down below the gravel layer. This means watering … this “sterile” environment is a matter of simply making sure old plant material is removed from the bed each spring, and that no organic material is left on the beds (which could …
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