… The cooler temperatures have put an end to tender annuals, herbs, and most perennials. If you haven’t brought in your houseplants from their summer vacation, do it now. “It’s definitely time to bring them in,” said Tom Tiddens , the Garden’s plant healthcare supervisor. If you’ve left … window so they can recover in a few weeks. A common concern when bringing plants indoors is how to deal with insects. “You want to be proactive,” Tiddens said. “If you don’t do anything, …
Type: Plant Info
… It’s that frightfully fun season again at the Chicago Botanic Garden, and so we encourage you to set the tone with plants we’re certain would be found in the home of any respectable witch or goblin, and are easy to care for, too! Snap! Watch a Venus flytrap snag its next meal. Our top choices are the spider … “Gollum” ). Kalanchoe, also called “mother of thousands” ( Kalanchoe daigremontiana ), is a fright to anyone who remembers the 1951 science fiction classic “Day of the Triffids” where …
Type: Blog
… Virtual field trips deliver Garden learning to your classroom through an online meeting platform of your choice. Each program includes a kit … slot). Field Trip workshops must be booked a minimum of three weeks in advance; full payment is due at time of scheduling. Select Workshop Topic upon checkout. Please call our field trip … questions: (847) 835-6801 Once your program is booked, a Garden educator will reach out to arrange delivery of materials and online meeting connection. To ensure the quality of the …
Type: Item Detail
… Description: This slow-flying carrion eater is sometimes found on the ground feeding on dead fish, but is usually seen flying over, mostly in pairs or small groups. …
Type: Birding
… Lone Piñon is a New Mexican string band, or orquesta típica, whose music celebrates the integrity and … and cross-cultural solidarity that has always been necessary for musical traditions to adapt and thrive in each generation. In 2014, Lone Piñon was founded as a platform for … Mexico communities. Through relationship with elders, study of field recordings, connections to parallel traditional music and dance revitalization movements in the United States and Mexico, …
Type: Event for Calendar
… providing head-bopping and foot-tapping tunes for virtually any music lover. From The Eagles to Alanis Morissette, to the Lumineers, to Miley Cyrus, Blue Rose plays songs you know and love. They are committed to … a Blue Rose show, be prepared to sing along, and put your dancing shoes to use! Blue Rose is a group of friends and neighbors who are deeply committed to their craft as individual and …
Type: Event for Calendar
… Rosa gallica was first famous as the medicinal “apothecary’s rose,” the oil of which was said to cure many maladies. In the late fifteenth century, it became the symbolic red rose of the House of Lancaster, a faction then fighting to rule England (in a battle later called the War of the Roses). ‘Versicolor’ is naturally striped. Alba Rose; White Rose of York Rosa x alba 'Alba Maxima' The White Rose of …
Type: Plant Info
… Geum ‘Sea Breeze Gold’ is also known by its common name of avens. It stands 15 inches high and blooms in May and June … wide. The foliage forms dense clumps 10“ high. Plant it in full sun or partial shade. It is hardy in zones 4 – 8. This is a member of the Cocktail™ Series bred by Brent Horvath of Intrinsic Perennial Gardens. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Large-flowered trillium, also known as wood lily and wake robin, is a woodland plant native to the forests of North America, growing as far north as Quebec to as far south as Alabama and Georgia. A spring bloomer, it produces leaves, petals, and sepals, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. When I clean up my vegetable garden this fall, should I add any amendments to the soil? A. Fall is an ideal time to give a little something back to your garden soil after it has produced so generously for you …
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