… the 2018 annual display beds, hanging baskets, containers, and hanging hayracks. You will also get a preview of the start of fall mums. Tim Pollak, outdoor floriculturist, Chicago Botanic …
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… Young children love to get their hands dirty. Spend three days of gardening fun, practicing activities for young …
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… to create unique botanical prints in this hands-on workshop. Learn fundamental techniques, get creative in this flexible art form, and leave with a beautiful collection of one-of-a-kind …
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… at the Chicago Botanic Garden, we simply want winter—too often maligned as cold and dreary—to get its due. Perhaps no one is more agreeable to take on the pro-winter debate than Fred Spicer, the Garden’s executive vice … “Understand where we are in the winter,” Spicer said. “It’s cold. Maybe it’s snowing. You can get outside and enjoy the landscape if you learn to look at it in a little bit of a different …
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… Changing your planting style is a win-win for you and your local bees. At the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden, … prefer foraging in blueberries than the honey bee—which would need three or more visits to get the same job done! Bumblebees, however, can fly at much lower temperatures than native bees … buzz pollinate (vibrating the flower to release the pollen). When it's hot, the honeybee may get the job done more efficiently—their sheer numbers pay off in a shorter bloom time. Give bees …
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… ’Regal Shields’ is a new hybrid elephant ear that gets its dramatic coloring from its father, 'Black Velvet', and … gardens worldwide. As understory plants, they’re happiest in part shade, though Regal Shields is more adaptable than most. Whether in garden soil or in a container, they want consistently …
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… Hanging lobster claw ( Heliconia rostrata ) is native to Central America, where migrating hummingbirds from North America pollinate the flowers while hovering to sip nectar. Their foreheads get dusted with pollen in the process — which apparently annoys some of them, because they have … nectar and avoid the messy pollen! Let us hope not too many adopt this approach, because this is a spectacularly ornamental species. Distant cousins of cannas, hanging lobster claws share the …
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… explodes into flower. Plant this salvia in full sun and in average soil, and water it to get the root system established. This perennial is a hummingbird and butterfly magnet. 'Pascal' was discovered in 1988 at a 9,000-foot elevation … during the last five years. Horticulturist Heather Sherwood says the fragrance of the leaves is "light and slightly minty." We are currently evaluating several species of tropical American …
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… THE DARK LADY®, named after the mysterious Dark Lady in Shakespeare's sonnets, is a bushy shrub rose that produces fragrant flowers in a show-stopping red with fuschia … tucking into a sunny border. Like all roses, the more sun you give it, the more flowers you'll get in return. Spraying against disease may be a good idea, especially if you can't give it full sun or it's crowded too close to other plants for good air circulation. This rose is somewhat disease-prone. In addition, most growers recommend using fertilizer in the …
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… 'Chuckles' is a floribunda rose, which means the flowers grow abundantly in clusters, starting in June. … white eye. It produces small but persistent rose hips in late summer to fall. Foliage is dark green and disease-resistant. Like all roses, it's happiest in full sun with consistently … will give you more prolific bloom. And if you leave the remaining flowers in place, you'll get those colorful hips come fall. …
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