… to create artistic sculptures and let creativity be the guide. Build a stone tower topped with a flower, or let a design naturally reveal itself. Discover the beauty of natural materials … on what can be created using material found in the backyard and a bit of imagination. Paint with mud. Why use regular paint when mud is so much more fun? Swap out watercolors for mud, and …
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… the monarch butterfly is on nearly everyone’s radar, due to its precarious situation with dwindling wintering grounds and lack of larval food plants—the milkweeds. However, if you … differences most easily seen in their antennae. While butterflies have narrow antennae with club-shaped structures at the end, the moths can have either thread-like antennae that end … shape and pattern, they also have a wonderful variety of common names that people have come up with to label them. There are sphinx moths or hawkmoths, daggers and darts, army worms and …
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… In partnership with the Door County Land Trust in Wisconsin, we are working on pollinator network studies at …
Type: Research
… Japanese Garden, including the Island of Everlasting Happiness. For Lightscape, Pogue worked with the designers to ensure the lights on the island honored traditional Japanese garden … says the Scots pines are a perfect choice because they look so much like Japanese red pines with their form and resembling trunks. Japanese pines would not work with our midwestern alkaline soil, but she explains that any plant, even one not native to Japan, …
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… maintenance specialist since 2006. He oversees the overall health of all of the turf areas with an integrated pest management program that is designed to reduce the use of pesticides. …
Type: Staff bio
… work as a Plant Production seasonal employee. He also worked as a grower for floriculture with a focus on annuals. He became interested in gardening as a child, when his family had a …
Type: Staff bio
… Chicago Botanic Garden. I also work to support data analysis and visualization for projects with collaborators at the Chicago Botanic Garden as well as a number of institutions nationally …
Type: Staff bio
… stump to be cut ½ to 1 inch while at the retailer. If you’re commuting more than 20 minutes with tree in tow, make the cut yourself at home. When a tree sits in a lot, its stump creates a … Think of it as a giant cut flower; you’ll have better luck extending the life of your tree with some food. Step away from the heat Though you’ll likely want to snuggle up next to the fire …
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… The goal of the field trips is to create real-life opportunities for students to have fun with science outside of their classroom walls, said Drew Wehrle, the Garden’s former coordinator … state Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), so students get to explore while also engaging with ideas that complement what they’re already learning in the classroom. Guided field trips …
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… to judge for themselves. We are excited that Gavin Young, the 2021 evaluation intern, will be with us through December. After 35 years of observing plants, a fresh eye is always appreciated. Beyond assisting with data collection and photographic documentation of the trial plants, Gavin will be regularly …
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