… This semi-woody plant, a "dieback shrub," grows quickly to 3 to 6 feet in full sun and well drained soil. It has bluish-green, trifoliate, clover-like leaves. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Plant in perennial borders or flower beds in full sun and moist well drained soils. Allow to reseed to insure continuity in the garden. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… into early fall on this hybrid of two Midwestern natives. Full sun, moist soils, average to good drainage are keys to success in the garden. Attracts a number of pollinators, including hummingbirds, honeybees, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Native to North America, Bush’s Lace spruce grows to 6 feet tall by 4 feet wide in 10 years and has light powder-blue needles. A stately specimen …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… the first record in Illinois of a nonnative leaf cutter bee, Megachile apicalis . This finding is part of Gruver’s graduate research, which aims to understand the effects of urbanization on the wild bees of the Chicago region. All of the bees … harbor diverse bee communities, but they may be made up of more nonnative bee species compared to natural areas. As urbanization grows worldwide, it is important to monitor the spread of …
Type: Research
… An exotic, tall-dark-and-handsome visitor has returned to the Chicago Botanic Garden this spring. Its bold blooms draw pollinators in as well as Garden visitors. What is it, you ask? Some of the most unusual plants our Production Greenhouse team grow for our … that produces giant spikes of flowers—but not right away. Echium take two years of growth to become the epic plants you see throughout the Garden. You won’t find these Dr. Seussian plants …
Type: Blog
… Restoring destroyed or damaged ecosystems is necessary to tackle global issues like climate change, soil health, clean water, and … in the peer-reviewed journal Restoration Ecology. Full article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.13131 Photo by Tom Kaye: A population of golden paintbrush ( Castilleja …
Type: Research
… The first moth to emerge in the Butterflies & Blooms exhibition is the Atlas moth ( Attacus atlas) , which is native to Southeast Asia. The Atlas moth lives for one to two weeks, so its main purpose after emerging …
Type: Blog
… In November, I had the unique opportunity to go to the Portland Japanese Garden for a week-long training session—and what a week it was! I … of Japan. One of the two pines species most popular in a Japanese garden, the black pine is symbolic of the seashore and referred to as on-matsu (the male pine), because of masculine …
Type: Blog
… heard in late summer and fall as chickadees gather in family groups and small feeding flocks to prepare for the winter. The chickadee’s song—translated as “Hey, sweetie,” (though you can’t often hear the third syllable)—is reserved for late winter, spring, and summer, when the bird is courting and nesting. Nothing brightens a mid-February day more than when a chickadee sings because to those who hear it, the song signals spring’s arrival. Because of its curiosity and propensity …
Type: Blog
