… flowers continuously from early June up to the first hard frost - typically around mid-October in the Chicago area. Bright light and moderately moist fertile soils are keys to gardening … garden and held indoors during the winter months if a bright light with good airflow location is available. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… leave many plants vulnerable to disease and insect problems. Keeping an eye on a rain gauge in your own backyard “ecosystem” is an important step to keeping your carbon-absorbing, oxygen-producing plants both healthy and … is to water root zones deeply but infrequently. Too little water provided too often can result in shallow root systems that leave plants less able to tolerate drought. It can also cause …
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… In the dry Mojave Desert, we think it’s a lovely sight when a tiny blade of a baby Joshua tree … little proprietary about it. As Chicago Botanic Garden interns, we plant Joshua tree seedlings in the wild and help them flourish. Based in Boulder City, Nevada, we’re working to save Joshua … as straight of lines as possible. We’ve learned that the straighter the lines, the easier it is to monitor the plots. With a team of about a dozen people, we planted seedlings using noisy …
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… Think fall color disappears in October? Nope. The first week of November is still prime time for leaf peeping at the Chicago Botanic Garden . As the Garden’s photographer, I talk up the red, gold, and burnt-orange foliage in early November, but no one really believes me. So I looked back through my archive and found …
Type: Blog
… texture of the water lilies floating on the rippling aquatic pools. If you visit this garden in the evening, note the dramatic effect of the lighting. Stop 2: Photo Tip: Summer-Rose Garden … already informed the structure of your subject, as you compose your framing. Control balance in your composition and consider irregularity and asymmetry when your frame your photos. Stop … varying shutter speeds. Stop 5: Photo Tip: Summer-Dwarf Conifer Garden Note subtle shifts in tone between the various conifers and the gracefully placed stones. Try photographing in black …
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… Colchicum ‘Autumn Herald’ produces goblets of amethyst violet flowers beginning in mid-September with orange stamens and a broad white blotch at the base of the petals. Plant this fairly large corm in sun or partial shaded conditions in soils that never completely dry in summer. The broad … but beneficial effects on animals are less common. An infamous nineteenth century murderess is thought to have used Colchicum to poison her victims. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The Streib's Findling bearberry cotoneaster is differentiated from other similar cultivars due to its matte blue-green foliage. This cultivar was developed in Germany; the species originates in central China. Members of the genus Cotoneaster are characterized by a stiff, dense branching …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hellebores or Lenten roses are prized for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. … hellebore grows into a low mound about eighteen inches high and two feet wide. The foliage is a glossy dark green with serrated leaflets that are evergreen throughout the winter except in … cool, moist soils with a high organic content but are very adaptable requiring only that the site be well-drained. Typically they are planted in woodland settings under deciduous trees where …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hellebores or Lenten roses are prized for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. … Lotus hellebore grows into a low mound about fifteen inches tall and 2 feet wide. The foliage is leathery and dark green with serrated leaflets that are evergreen throughout the winter except … cool, moist soils with a high organic content but are very adaptable requiring only that the site be well-drained. Typically they are planted in woodland settings under deciduous trees where …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Hellebores or Lenten roses are prized for their flowers which appear in late winter or early spring and are often the first flowers to appear in the Chicago garden. … Yellow Lady hellebore grows into a low mound about fifteen inches tall and wide. The foliage is leathery and darkgreen with finger-like clusters of serrated leaflets that are evergreen … cool, moist soils with a high organic content but are very adaptable requiring only that the site be well-drained. Typically they are planted in woodland settings under deciduous trees where …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
