… 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
… of them overlooked by nature lovers and gardeners alike, simply because “it's just too cold to go outside.” Perhaps that's true when the windchill dips to threatening levels or the snow blows sideways; but when the air is clear and calm, and the sun gleams off the snow, it's time to take pleasure in the private …
Type: Walks
… Yang-style tai chi is a beautiful, slow-moving meditation in motion. Move through a selection from the 24 forms, the … classes at the Garden. Class locations vary between spaces in the Regenstein Center according to the season, weather, and availability. Spaces include two indoor rooms: Burnstein Hall and …
Type: Item Detail
… are followed by billowing masses of silvery, silk-like seeds in late fall. This perennial is excellent for use as an informal vine or trained formally on arbors. It flowers on the current … in 1877 and has been safely used as an ornamental until the last decade or so, when it began to appear on lists of plants that can reseed into roadsides and other natural habitats. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and in 1994 it received the Award of Merit. It received the Morgan Wood Medal in 1997 which is the highest special medal awarded by the American Iris Society to a Siberian iris. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Montauk or Nippon daisy ( Nipponanthemum nipponicum ) is one of the last perennials to bloom, from late September through October. It produces long …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… jet? And the flowerheads, perhaps they look like fox tails? Piglet dwarf fountain grass is a diminutive form of the very popular Hameln fountain grass. Piglet grows to about 18 inches tall and two feet wide with pinkish-white flowerheads appearing in late summer …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
