… pest management program that is designed to reduce the use of pesticides. Fritz grew up in Kankakee, just south of Chicago. He received an associate's degree in agricultural business from Kankakee Community College and an associate's degree in turf management from Joliet Junior College. After graduation, he interned at the Olympia …
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… Lorin Fox is the grower for the woody plants, perennials, and aquatics in the Plant Production department. His job is to produce high-quality plants for the Garden's … He also worked as a grower for floriculture with a focus on annuals. He became interested in gardening as a child, when his family had a vegetable garden, a couple of crabapple trees, and a grapevine. He moved on to working in a friend's garden and greenhouse, and has been practicing the art of bonsai since 1997. His …
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… I am a researcher in Dr. Andrea Kramer’s lab at the Chicago Botanic Garden. My work involves investigating functional traits and diversity in plant communities, rare species conservation, and restoration ecology. My current projects include research into intraspecific trait variation in prairie plant species, implications of hierarchical trait variation in plant competition, …
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… and the perfect name for a proposal. ‘Love and Peace’ —A beautiful combination: yellow, edged in pink. And that fragrance! Starry Night™ —Five pure white petals sparkle like the stars in your true love’s eyes. Some roses speak of love through scent. American historian Alice Morse Earle writes the following in “Old Time Garden” : “The fragrance of the sweetest rose is beyond any other flower scent, it …
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… are they all here right now? It’s all about their life cycle. These insects spend their youth in the woods during summer, growing up flightless. In late summer/early fall, their wings develop and they can take flight, seeking a nice, cozy … OK, don’t answer that. They belong to a group of insects commonly called “true bugs.” Insects in this order are distinguished by their straw-like sucking mouth part, which they use to feed on …
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… garden because they provide both structure and color at a time when little else is blooming in the shade. The leaves emerge in a layered whorl, giving the plants a pagoda-like structure. We’re also moving into Asiatic lily season with the first of those beginning to bloom in bold shades of pink, red, yellow, and orange. Lilium ‘Nepera’ is a vibrant orange martagon …
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… Putting roses to sleep for winter In early November, many of the roses that bloom twice per year (called remontant, or repeat-blooming) were still putting on quite a show in the Krasberg Rose Garden. Even that late in the season, the garden looked exceptionally lush—canes were tall, bloom was heavy, and …
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… Many of our scientists and horticulturists work in the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center. Talking to our scientists, … air, where they swing along like Spider-Man! Spiders have been found as high as 10,000 feet in the air and 200 miles out to sea. 2. Spiders can fish. TRUE. There's a group called fishing … binoculars) up front so they can focus on moving prey. 5. Spiders have stingers, like Shelob in The Lord of the Rings . FALSE. Spiders inject their prey with venom through fangs at the end …
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… The plant collections of the Chicago Botanic Garden have a new place to show off in a “theater” designed just for them in the Helen and Richard Thomas English Walled Garden . Plant theater is a traditional English … Sherwood, who oversees the English Walled Garden. Plant theaters have long been popular in Great Britain as a way to organize and present pots of flowering annuals, perennials, and …
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… with digestion, insomnia, and the common cold. Its fragrant white flowers with a yellow disk in the center make a great addition to your home garden. Gardenia Nothing quite compares to the … aromatic gardenia plant. Native to southeast Asia, gardenia is a large shrub or small tree in the Rubiaceae family with large, white, fragrant flowers produced at the ends of branches … back when young couples wore boutonnières and corsages when going out on dates. Keep gardenia in a sun-filled window for your very own oasis of calm and relaxation. Lavender Lavender has …
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