… A favorite flavoring all over the world, pepper is used in a different way by each cuisine: Caribbean chefs flavor their dishes with habanero; in Thailand they prefer … local, no Chicago dog is complete unless it comes with sport peppers!) Use these top tips to ensure the best pepper harvest year after year in your garden, because every bite is worth savoring. …
Type: Plant Info
… provides master gardener training online and in person throughout the state of Illinois. To find a course near you, please visit the Local Master Gardener Programs information page. For information on other training dates and sites, check the University of Illinois Extension …
Type: Page
… give its whinnylike call in the woods at the Garden. This hardy, adaptable bird is built to get food left by other birds that leave town for the winter. Woodpeckers can go up and down trees … that long tongue when he's not using it? He wraps it inside his head around his skull. The best “human” example of a woodpecker's tongue wrapped around its skull is a retractable tape …
Type: Birding
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… Description: This tundra nester only visits the Garden in late fall through early spring. Look for it foraging for seeds on the surface of the snow in the Dixon Prairie. …
Type: Birding
… one, with the classic quartered center and fragrance of old-fashioned roses. You can prune it to fit in a border, or grow it as a short climber by a door or patio to enjoy the fragrance. Rose … of modern roses. Like all roses, the more sun you give them, the more flowers you'll get in return. Remember that without full sun and good air circulation, even the most … may need help fighting fungal diseases. Also, repeat-blooming roses are heavy feeders, so for best performance fertilize in spring and again in mid-summer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… bright orange flowers on a glossy leaved deciduous shrub that rarely gets over 2.5' in height. Best grown in full sun with moderate fertilization. This dwarf cultivar is grown almost … the larger sized cultivars. Pliny was well acquainted with this plant. Pomegranates are native to an area stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to the Himalayan Mountains. Many cultivars have been selected for their fruit characteristics and these are reproduced through vegetative propagation because …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Your tomato plant may have a good point Do plants chat you up? Not quite. But according to a recent study by Tel Aviv University researchers, plants do make clicking sounds, … its list of suggested names for houseplants. “Button,” of course, for a tiny succulent. You get the picture. Which name is not on the magazine’s list? Spice Girls (for a group of herb … crops including arugula, kale, and cilantro. The researchers’ paper on the test garden was a best paper finalist at this year’s prestigious International Conference on Robotics and …
Type: Blog
… Welcome to high summer at the Chicago Botanic Garden, where color, scent, and the play of light on water await you at nearly every turn. A perfect way to experience the lush abundance of the season is with a walk around the Garden’s 2.6-mile … shoreline challenges and water fluctuations. Here is another chance to cross over the water to visit the gardens up close; foregoing that option and continuing the perimeter walk, however, we …
Type: Walks
… ‘Nivea’ is a cultivar of the U.S. native wisteria. It can grow to 25’ in length with an 8’ spread. It blooms in June with 6-12” long racemes of fragrant, white … display. There may be one or two additional flushes of bloom in summer. The flowers give way to bean-like seedpods that ripen in fall and may persist into winter. It prefers slightly acidic, moderately moist and fertile, well-drained soils in full sun (needed for best flowering). It can be slow to establish and may require three years or more to flower. Once …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
