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  • Ginkgo biloba 'Ohazuki'
    … selection that will produce fruit. This selection is slow growing and will mature in ten years to a small sized tree 6-13 feet tall with a broad spreading habit. This Ginkgo has large leaves … this tree coexisted with the dinosaurs. Ginkgo is sometimes called the maidenhair tree due to its beautiful fan shaped leaves that resemble a maidenhair fern frond. It is one of the most …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • Color in the Garden
    … and provocative uses of color in the garden and cover how the gardener can approach decisions to use different color combinations. Many examples of interesting color combinations from gardens …
    Type: Item Detail
  • Botanicals in Charcoal
    … New! Charcoal gives you the opportunity to work large, bold, and loose, or keep the fine detail of traditional botanical art. Several …
    Type: Item Detail
  • Market Basket Workshop
    … basket using flat and round reed. You will learn plain weave, twining, and lashing techniques to form the base, weave up the sides, and cap off the edge of this traditional basket design. All …
    Type: Item Detail
  • Natural Perfume Workshop: Beginner Level
    … with essential oils, absolutes, and resins from around the world. Students will be introduced to 15 natural essences and leave with their very own original in a .25-ounce spray bottle. …
    Type: Item Detail
  • One Leaf and One Branch
    … Burnstein Hall This workshop, brought to you by the Chicago Chapter of Ikebana International and taught by Ilse Beunen, will focus on …
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  • Demonstration Cooking: Seeds
    … New! Explore the crunchy textures and flavors seeds add to recipes in this cooking class. Enjoy a light lunch of wilted frisée salad with pear and …
    Type: Item Detail
  • Warmingia eugenii
    … cinnamon, citrus, other flowers (rose, jasmine, freesia), vanilla…and rotting meat (the better to attract flies). Warmingia eugenii conjures the smell of hot metal. …
    Type: Plant Info
  • Giant Hogweed
    … ) are not common in our region. This plant is not found at the Garden, and homeowners looking to identify the species and the threat of several related plants can find information and …
    Type: Plant Info
  • Strelitzia reginae 'Mandela's Gold'
    … humidity. The mature size is a bit smaller than the straight species, making it more adaptable to container culture. …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant