… softly furry flower heads. Pollinators love the flowers, and song birds are strongly attracted to the seeds in fall. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… cover Sunshine Superman star tickseed ( Coreopsis pubescens 'Sunshine Superman') from summer to frost. This cultivar of a native perennial was discovered in wild populations in Missouri …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This tall grass evolved to live in the cool damp moor areas of norther Europe and Asia. Cordoba moor grass makes a strong …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… upright plants. Almost black stems support the dark green leaves, making this cultivar easy to identify in a crowd of asters. Butterflies, honeybees, etc. can't resist the nectar and …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… other succulents, bright light, low humidity and soils that dry between irrigations are keys to success. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… above the broad green foliage with an extended period of flowering. This annual can be allowed to reseed in the garden or seeds can be collected and sown in late winter for transplanting after …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… To most people, the word “pollinator” is synonymous with the word “bee,” but only a fraction of plants are pollinated by bees. In … pollinators—bats, birds, beetles, moths, and more. As part of National Moth Week , we wanted to highlight our work on a very special group of moths: the Sphingidae, or hawkmoths, which …
Type: Blog
… spread of adaptive traits, disrupting gene complexes, and maintaining species cohesion. This is particularly the case for floral traits where long-distance pollinators act as agents of … and Bureau of Land Management). We use a combination of field, greenhouse, and molecular tools to assess long-distance pollination events via hawkmoths versus shorter distance dispersal by bees. To date, our work has found high rates of gene flow and limited population genetic …
Type: Research
… David Murray is the horticulturist for the Shida Evaluation Garden. Our new Shida Evaluation Garden allows us to expand our acclaimed plant evaluation program, which began in 1982. The landscape plan by … interest the outdoors began as a broad curiosity of the natural world, where he was encouraged to spend much of his time as a child. As a teen while adventuring out west, he saw his first …
Type: Staff bio
… Chicago high school students from the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA) sought to find the answer. The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Healing Environments Ambassadors Learning … launched in April 2019. The program connects high school students, their schools, and families to the health-promoting benefits of nature. Over the course of a spring-to-spring year, including … the entrance of the Instituto Health Sciences Career Academy (IHSCA). The program’s leader is Vincent Gomez, manager of horticultural therapy services at the Chicago Botanic Garden. “The …
Type: Blog
