… our groups begin to remove overgrown summer crops for composting while replacing them with edible fall crops and autumn blooms. For our off-site therapy gardens, we typically plant … think about how you can relate this to your specific audience and how the message can resonate with them—either as a group or individually. Beautiful mum pumpkins created in an off-site … the floral foam can be inserted for the mum arrangement. ( If you choose to fill your pumpkin with a planted flower, I would recommend using 1-2 cell-pack pansies per pumpkin.) Therapeutic …
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… annual displays, containers, hanging baskets, and specialty plant displays. He also assists with the seasonal (spring, summer, and fall) annual design and the plant selection process; he … create excitement for plants. He has a bachelor of science degree in landscape horticulture, with a concentration in nursery and greenhouse management, from Colorado State University. Pollak … Pollak loves everything about gardening and the outdoors, and enjoys camping and hiking with his family, attending his son's soccer games, and relaxing with Nike, his yellow lab. …
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… success in a rare evening primrose ( Oenothera organensis ). I am currently working with a number of colleagues on genetic, demographic, and pollination studies on a threatened … in a national assessment of native seed needs and the capacity of the industry to provide seed with the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. A final area of research focuses on invasive plant species, particularly at the intersection with horticulture. I am interested in improving predictive risk assessments and evaluation …
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… help advance science on pollinators of native prairie wildflowers and other plants? It starts with a summer filled with scientific observation at the Nativars Research Plot in the Bernice E. Lavin Plant … program. He did research for Budburst , a project by the Chicago Botanic Garden to work with community scientists and experts to better understand how plant species and ecosystems are …
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… Obenchain conjures a feeling of mischief and magic. He wears a tattered straw hat, trimmed with a red poppy, that looks like something a scarecrow might wear. His bushy black eyebrows … bringing to mind the woolly bear caterpillars abundant in the fall. A playfulness—tinged with the macabre—also shows in the jack-o-lantern characters Obenchain created for HallowFest, the Garden’s former celebration of Halloween. Riley Obenchain poses with some enormous jack-o-lantern fodder in the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden. Obenchain’s …
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… and visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden recently experienced the fascinating bloom cycle with the titan arum Sprout. However, there is an additional denizen of the Araceae (a.k.a. Aroid, a.k.a. Arum) family with rare and exceptional attributes, which also bloomed at the Garden. Japanese cobra lily … individual plant can be male one year and female the next. Young plants produce male flowers with pollen until they are mature enough to produce fruit. When they have accumulated enough …
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… garden seasons to create vibrant container gardens. I’m a huge fan of fall container gardens with a rich variety of color, texture, and hardiness that carry their beauty well beyond the … back of this basin garden offset blooming fall annuals. Photo by Tim Pollak A fall container with grass, pansies, and heuchera, which comes in a host of leaf colors. Photo by Tim Pollak … well through the autumn season. I love the combination of using purple or blue asters with ornamental kale—the colors play off each other nicely in a long-lasting display. Using other …
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… The combination of the reflexed petals, narrowing to a column of fused yellow anthers with a needle-like style protruding from the central core of the anthers creates a perfect … in prairies and is a member of the primrose family. Roosterheads is comical but descriptive. With a white feathered head on an arching neck with a yellow beak, the plant’s resemblance to the animal is easy to see if you subtract the red …
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… grasses to small perennials, herbs to large vegetables. Also, be sure to use a container with drainage holes to avoid root rot and water logging. The next item you’ll need is a rich, … nutrient-filled, potting soil. If you’re using a large container, filling the entire container with soil will make it heavy and difficult to move. Placing light, mesh landscape materials … Find Better Than Rocks drainage mesh—used in the bottom of our pot—at your local nursery. With the container(s) set and filled, we are now ready to plant our home horticultural therapy …
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… of varieties of bulbs imported directly from growers in Holland. The members’ presale, with discounted prices, starts September 1; the public sale is September 9 to 25. Order pick-ups … One of my favorite combinations is an April bloomer, Narcissus 'Jet Fire' (yellow with orange cup) and Muscari armeniacum (purple grape hyacinth). Eranthis hyemali s (bright … perennials without disturbing the light they will need to grow. I also like to plant Eranthis with daffodils and narcissus under a pine tree. It is a good source of food for early …
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