… hard for the men in our lives. How about celebrating Father’s Day with a rare opportunity to canoe on the lakes of the Chicago Botanic Garden? How about offering to mow the lawn while Dad reads the morning paper or watches his favorite sports team? Birding … walk at the Garden’s Barbara Brown Nature Reserve and perhaps a brand new pair of binoculars to take along. Gardeners always enjoy plants, especially hard-to-find heirloom varieties. …
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… 'Die Schone' comes from a group of Rodgersia native to dry grassy areas, so it can handle full sun as well as part shade. While it's not as thirsty … cousins, it'll still appreciate some mulch in the sun. The leaves emerge dark bronze, maturing to olive green with a red edge, and brightening to red bronze in the fall. Pink flowers in June yield handsome, long-lasting seed heads. In the …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and stamina can reduce our enjoyment of our yards and gardens. Join us for some ideas to extend your garden enjoyment for years to come and adapt your landscape to become more hospitable to older adults. Valerie Gerdes Lemme, landscape architect, ASLA …
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… 16 total displays using nearly 1,000 dahlia blooms ranging in size from a silver dollar to a dinner plate. Society members will be on hand to provide written information and to answer questions about dahlias. Blooms will be available for purchase at the end of show on …
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… art and science. Learn about some of the pigments that give plants their color and ways to extract those pigments to color other things. Learn about some mineral pigment sources and compare them to plant-based colors. We will use these natural pigments to create fabric dye fabric, make …
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… Four to five large, snowy-white double flowers are brushed with soft salmon on the petals on this … will be produced from each bulb. Place the potted bulbs in brightly lit areas, and water once to bring the bulb into growth and then thereafter to prevent wilting. The large flowering stalks lean toward the strongest source of lighting so …
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… The panicles of Pinky Winky™ panicle hydrangea ( Hydrangea paniculata 'Dvppinky') grow up to 16 inches long, bearing large, white florets from midsummer up to frost. As the temperatures cool in fall, the lower (older) florets turn pink, creating a … and ornamental pink-and-white combination of florets. This hardy deciduous shrub can grow to 8 feet high and 9 feet wide. Sunny positions in loamy soils, plus moderate irrigation and …
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… Nodding green "bells" are broadly striped with dark-maroon purple from their base to the tip of their petals. Small bulb-lets produced at the base of the larger bulbs each year will mature to flowering size in three to four years and produce a stronger presence in the garden. Plant this fritillaria in full sun …
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… covered by the masses of hemispherical flower clusters featuring reddish-orange buds that open to bright yellow flowers that then age to orange as they migrate to the outside of the flower head. The leaves contain a compound that deters rabbits and deer …
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… paradise plant ( Strelitzia reginae ) produces showy orange-and-blue flowers from early fall to late winter. This clump-forming South African ginger relative grows to a height of about 6 feet with bright, indirect indoor light and moderate moisture conditions. … Like other tropical plants, it benefits from misting with water during the winter months to increase the humidity and keep spider mite populations low. Misting with water actually causes …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
