… We discovered a fun way to encourage the Garden’s Camp CBG campers to try a salad. Many kids turn up their noses when they hear the word, but after painting with food, our campers are eager to “dig into” their creations. For little ones, this project is easy and fun to do with a grown-up and provides opportunities to identify colors and start …
Type: Blog
… This weeping conifer grows to 12 feet high with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Glossy Wintercreeper (Euonymus fortunei 'Carrierei') Prostrate to mound-forming evergreen, thin leathery glossy green leaves. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This evergreen shrub grows to a height of 3 feet with full sun and moderate moisture conditions. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This evergreen conifer needs full sun and dry moisture conditions to reach a height of 6 feet. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… If you carve a pumpkin for Halloween or make a pumpkin pie from scratch, you’re going to have a lot of pumpkin seeds. You can put them to good use by turning them into “dice” and playing math games this fall. First, you’ll need to … of dice you make will depend on the game you want to play, but for all games the basic idea is the same. Players will toss the seeds and the side that lands face up is the number they …
Type: Blog
… Garden scientists, students, and collaborators describe two new tree species related to breadfruit and jackfruit. While conducting fieldwork in Thailand, Chicago Botanic Garden … encountered a curious specimen of a tree related to jackfruit and breadfruit. Dr. Zerega is an expert on plants in this group, but nevertheless she was unable to identify the newly … and published this summer in the peer-reviewed science journal, Phytotaxa: https://www.mapress.com/j/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.453.3.8 Keywords: Nyree Zerega, species discovery, jackfruit, …
Type: Research
… U.S. Navy veteran Anna Andersen is quick to tell you how the Chicago Botanic Garden’s impact on her life goes beyond the beauty of the plants to the nurturing she found in its Veteran Internship Program (VIP). “I am grateful for the VIP …
Type: Blog
… are wind-pollinated, while figs have one of the most fascinating pollination modes, which is often used as a classic example of coevolution between plants and insecrts. In the obligate … found in all fig species, female fig wasps use the enclosed fig inflorescence as a brood site, laying their eggs in some of the ovules and pollinating others. The offspring hatch and … experiments on several Artocarpus species in Sabah, Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. To date, findings indicate pollination in some species may involve a tripartite mutualism among …
Type: Research
… “Can a Venus fly trap bite off your finger?” Jose asked, on a virtual field trip to the Chicago Botanic Garden. With an overhead camera, I zoomed into the Venus fly trap to show him that the plant’s snapping mechanism is smaller than the tip of my finger and not nearly as strong. The fast-closing leaves have …
Type: Blog
