… Description: Look for this tundra-breeder traveling in a flock of common redpolls or goldfinches and siskins. In winter, this rare visitor is most likely to be found in alders or birches while feeding on seeds in cones and catkins. …
Type: Birding
… Carson Landry is carillonneur of Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in Michigan. He holds a master’s degree in carillon performance from the University of Michigan and a diploma from the Royal Carillon School in Belgium, where he studied on a Fulbright scholarship. He has held carillon fellowships at Bok …
Type: Event for Calendar
… Large blue-and-white flowers open above the fern-like foliage in spring on this Colorado native. It is a short-lived perennial in nature and in cultivation, so gardeners should allow the seeds to mature and disperse to ensure future …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… is a small, mounded evergreen shrub with light green needles of a very fine texture, growing in thread-like fronds. It prefers full sun and well-drained soil. In its native habitat in Japan, Sawara false cypress is a large evergreen tree growing to between 50 and 70 feet in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Dark purple flowers cover the horizontal carpet of dark green needle like foliage in mid- spring (typically May in Chicago). This is a great plant to use in a rock garden, the front of a border or as a permanent groundcover in sunny locations; it's …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This unique double-late tulip features masses of white petals tightly formed into a cone shape in the middle, surrounded by shorter rows of raspberry-pink petals. The visual effect resembles an ice cream cone. Plant this tulip in full sun and in moist, well-drained soils in the fall in locations that are not prone to strong winds; make …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Pale yellow flowers delicately flamed in pale raspberry mature to ivory chalices with lighter raspberry markings in mid- to late spring. Like other tulips in the single late class, it has a stronger tendency to naturalize in gardens if planted in …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… to southern France and the Canary Islands, lavender proved quite hardy and happy growing in England, and in the sixteenth century it was dubbed the "queen" of the scented herb garden. A member of the … attractive addition to any perennial bed. Add lavender's characteristic scent that is stored in oil glands embedded among its flowers, leaves and stems, and the result is a plant that has …
Type: Plant Info
… Description: Quite common in the Midwest, these birds lay their eggs in other species' nests. They can be found everywhere at the Garden looking for nests in which to lay their eggs. One female can lay 70 eggs in one season. …
Type: Birding
… Best grown in peaty, fertile, well-drained but consistently moist soils in light shade. Tolerates full shade. Avoid full sun. Performs best in cool summer climates. Intolerant of drought. Propagate by division or seed. Site in locations …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
