… Description: This large gull is often seen on the lakes during spring thaw, or at other times either flying over or swimming. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This bird is visible flying over the Garden on migration, hovering over the Dixon Prairie, or less …
Type: Birding
… Description: This medium-sized shorebird is seen most often on shorelines in the Barbara Brown Nature Reserve or around the Dixon Prairie. …
Type: Birding
… Description: This cavity-nesting bird is most often seen and heard in wooded areas of the Garden. It occasionally occupies bluebird …
Type: Birding
… Description: This wren is most often heard, but may be seen, in wet areas of the Dixon Prairie or along restored …
Type: Birding
… sweetly perfumed flowers with a distinctive dark burgundy blotch. This native of east Africa is not reliably hardy in Chicago-area gardens. Gardeners may purchase corms in their local garden … frost has passed. This species was reclassified as Gladiolus murielae by botanists in 1973 but is still frequently sold in the nursery trade under the old name of Acidanthera bicolor var. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Polly Spout green dragon ( Pinellia tripartita 'Polly Spout') is a hardy member of the Aroid (philodendron) family, which produces spikes of green flowers in late summer. This cultivar is named for the hometown of We-Du Nursery in South Carolina, where this sterile cultivar was …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… My work is focused on breeding novel ornamental cultivars that are well-suited for the harsh … chosen subjectively and made by hand, these methods are supplemented by chemical mutagenesis to introduce genetic and phenotypic variation into the program. Promising accessions are studied … University in 2022 while studying hazelnut ( Corylus spp.). I am excited for the opportunity to transition back to ornamental plants, as they are what originally drew me to plants in general. …
Type: Staff bio
… on the underside of its glossy green leaves. Known in Britain as the cricket bat willow, it is grown there as a timber source for their national game. The bright green stems of new growth … known as willows. These woody plants range in size from the imposing weeping willow tree to small shrubs. While not fussy about soil quality, they generally require moderate to wet soil moisture. In the wild, willows are commonly found near streams, rivers and ponds. In …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… was in full bloom underneath the pines on the second Japanese Island. A stunning sight, this is the best bloom staff can recall in years (2012). At the tip of each branch a truss of flower buds open to display double pink flowers with a silvery center a week or so before the PJM cultivar. In the fall most leaves color up orange to red and drop but those closest to the tips of the branches remain on the branch until …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
