Keep Growing Summer 2012

Keep Growing SUMMER 2012

Member Magazine and Program Guide

Antiques & Garden Fair

Susan A. Willetts, Chairman Robert F. Finke, Vice Chairman Thomas E. Lanctot, Vice Chairman Benjamin F. Lenhardt, Jr., Vice Chairman William E. Moeller, Vice Chairman John L. Howard, Vice Chairman Catherine M. Waddell, Vice Chairman Sophia Siskel, President & CEO DIRECTORS Thomas F. Aichele Andrew Armishaw Sharon Brady Neville F. Bryan John H. Buehler Michael J. Busch Susan Keller Canmann Timothy C. Coleman Peter R. Crane John F. Cregan John V. Crowe Christopher A. Deveny James W. DeYoung Suzanne S. Dixon Timothy A. Dugan Peter M. Ellis Anthony L. Farino Peter B. Foreman John D. Fornengo Thomas C. Freyman Dorothy H. Gardner Nancy Gidwitz Sue L. Gin James J. Glasser Ellis M. Goodman John K. Greene Joseph A. Gregoire William J. Hagenah Caryn L. Harris Thomas B. Hunter III Jane Irwin Joan M. Johnson Gregory K. Jones Catherine C. Kirby, ex officio Posy L. Krehbiel Donna La Pietra Eric C. Larson M. James Leider Laura M. Linger Alec Litowitz Josephine P. Louis Barbara A. Lumpkin Mary Ann S. MacLean Jeanne K. Mason Gloria Masterson, ex officio Michelle McKenna Jeanine McNally Edward Minor Jane S. O’Neil Riley O’Neil, ex officio Homi B. Patel George A. Peinado Janet Meakin Poor Anne Pramaggiore Toni Preckwinkle, ex officio Arnold Randall, ex officio Susan L. Regenstein Harrison I. Steans Susan Stone Pam F. Szokol Richard L. Thomas Howard J. Trienens Nicole S. Williams Arthur M. Wood, Jr. LIFE DIRECTORS Marilynn B. Alsdorf J. Melfort Campbell Barbara Whitney Carr Kent Chandler, Jr. Gary P. Coughlan Thomas A. Donahoe Ralph F. Fujimoto Florence S. Hart Pamela K. Hull Bill Kurtis Robert H. Malott Mary L. McCormack Mary Mix McDonald Peter H. Merlin William A. Osborn John E. Preschlack Anne O. Scott Dain Searle David Byron Smith William P. Sutter Ernest P. Waud III

The mission of the Chicago Botanic Garden is to promote the enjoyment, understanding, and conservation of plants and the natural world.

Dear Members, I love watching the landscape change with the seasons; each brings its own special beauty. Summer is the season of exuberance, especially at the Chicago Botanic Garden, which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2012. The pleasures of summer are evident not only in our lush display gardens and thriving natural areas, but in our many programs as well.

In this issue of Keep Growing, you’ll discover a schedule of summer events as abundant as the season itself. A highlight this year is the public dedication of the Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden, coinciding with our celebration of World Environment Day on June 2. This garden is the next step in our new Learning Campus, dedicated to teaching science to students of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. It is our hope that an early exposure to nature at the Children’s Growing Garden—including through Camp CBG—will inspire the next generation of scientists, naturalists, and citizens engaged with the environment.

Summer at the Garden means Summer Evenings and Tuesday Morning Music, a new event called Taste of Mexico, a new butterfly exhibition, an array of plant shows, an art festival, the Garden Chef Series, and much more. This issue of Keep Growing includes details about all of these wonderful events, as well as our annual Bloomin’ Festival in May, featuring the 46th annual plant sale sponsored by the Woman’s Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society.

Also inside this 40th anniversary summer issue, we honor the volunteers who have been so essential to the Garden’s success with a selection of volunteer profiles. You’ll learn one way we plan to keep growing, with a complete renovation of our plant production greenhouses and nurseries. Additionally, you will see how the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden has evolved into a magnificent example of one of the world’s great horticultural art forms. Finally, you’ll find inspiration for your own garden as our experts recommend ten of their favorite plants for this season.

Though summer is an exciting time here, the Garden continues to offer peace and inspiration in accordance with our belief that gardens and natural environments are fundamentally important to the mental and physical well-being of all people. There is always a quiet, contemplative path to follow, whether among the fragrant roses in the Krasberg Rose Garden, the swaying grasses of the Dixon Prairie, or the graceful birches on Spider Island. There is always something to see at the Garden, where Mother Nature brings you a new outdoor exhibition every day of the year.

I look forward to seeing you at the Garden this summer, whether at one of our many events or along a garden path.

Sophia Siskel President and CEO

P.S. Along with warmer temperatures and longer, light-filled evenings, summer brings special extended hours to the Garden. Come enjoy all we have to offer from sunrise until 9 p.m., June 2 through Labor Day.

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Features

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President’s Letter

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A Bloomin’ Festival

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World Environment Day

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Summer Evenings

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Taste of Mexico

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Summer Events

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Calendar

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Looking Ahead to Fall

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Garden News

10 Summer Evenings and More

Volunteers

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Plant Production

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Garden App

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Community News

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Then & Now

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Noteworthy Summer Plants

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This Season in the Garden

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Programs Adult Education

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Youth and Family Programs Includes 2012 Camp CBG

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Teacher and Student Programs 80 For more information, please visit Keep Growing online. www.keepgrowing.com ON THE COVER

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A lovely summer day dawns over the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden. The stone lantern in the foreground is similar to those used traditionally to light the way to Buddhist temples. See page 32 for a Then and Now perspective. www.chicagobotanic.org 3

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Celebrate the Growing Season with

A Bloomin’ Festival!

Garden enthusiasts will find everything they need for a successful growing season at A Bloomin’ Festival on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Membersonly hours are on Friday, May 18, from 1 to 5 p.m. This special three-day event combines the 46th annual spring plant sale with a lovely open-air marketplace featuring live music and a bustling market selling fresh-baked goods, local produce, herbs, handmade pottery, and other garden items. Bring your tools for sharpening!

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1. Baptisia ‘Midnight’ 1972 Plant Sale

2. Baptisia ‘Starlite’ 3. Baptisia ‘Twilite’

Featuring the 46th annual spring plant sale sponsored by the Woman’s Board of the Chicago Botanic Garden, A Bloomin’ Festival should be on every gardener’s “to-do” list. The Midwest’s best plant sale showcases more than 25,000 annuals, ferns, perennials, fruit and vegetable plants, geraniums, herbs, native wildflowers, ornamental grasses, roses, shrubs, vines, and much more—all for sale!

Open-Air Festival In addition to local market vendors selling their wares, many plant vendors will also participate, including Craig Bergmann Landscape Design, W&M Land Corp., Lakeland Nursery, Marcus Specimen Trees, and more. Garden horticulturists will be on hand presenting gardening demonstrations and offering tips to help you get off to a good start this season.

4. Echinacea ‘Burgundy Fireworks’ – new for 2012 5. Echinacea ‘CBG Cone 2’ Pixie Meadowbrite 6. Polyganatum ‘Prince Charming’ – new for 2012 7. Stachys officinalis ‘Pink Cotton Candy’ 8. Veronica ‘Whitewater’ 9. Veronica ‘Tidal Pool’ – new for 2012

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Members-Only Preview Evening Garden members enjoy early shopping privileges at the plant sale and marketplace on Thursday, May 17, from 4 to 7 p.m. Enjoy light fare and beverages as you shop from a choice selection of plants ideal for Chicagoland growing conditions.

Preview Evening tickets are available for purchase on the Garden’s website and at the Visitor Center. Proceeds from the Preview Evening and three-day plant sale help the Woman’s Board underwrite the operational support of the Garden’s Rainwater Glen and Green Roof Garden.

Chicagoland Grows® is a partnership between the Garden, The Morton Arboretum, and the Ornamental Grower’s Association of Northern Illinois. While regional in focus, the program’s plants can be grown successfully in all zoneappropriate regions of North America, Europe, and around the world.

The USDA growing zones recently changed.

Visit http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov for more information.

A Bloomin’ Festival is generously supported by JULIE, Inc.

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Chicagoland Grows ® is an innovative plant introduction program developed to promote the use of new plant cultivars well-adapted to the growing conditions of the Upper Midwest. This year, these plants from Chicagoland Grows will be showcased in the Bloomin’ Festival marketplace and featured in the plant sale:

World Environment Day Educating the public through awareness and action Saturday, June 2 World Environment Day—organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)— began in 1972, the same year the Chicago Botanic Garden opened. Through World Environment Day celebrations held around the world, UNEP and its event partners, like the Garden, educate the public about environmental issues and provide tips on what people can do to create a healthier planet.

World Environment Day Activities The theme for World Environment Day 2012 is “Unite for a Sustainable Chicago.” From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in designated areas of the Garden, visitors can learn how to help the environment with advice from local groups, including Chicago Wilderness; the Garden’s corporate partners will also discuss their environmental efforts. Garden scientists, conservationists, and horticulturists will present information on a variety of plant conservation science studies, eco-friendly gardening techniques, and ways people can apply conservation practices at home. Visitors can take a walking tour at 1 p.m. with the Garden’s aquatic curator to learn more about the ongoing North Lake shoreline restoration project.

Family Activities Children can choose from an array of fun activities in the Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden (from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and on the Esplanade (from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.) during World Environment Day. Family programs focus on plants, gardens, weather, and nature. Kids and their families can dissect plants and see how colored water moves through stems; participate in a scavenger hunt; pot a marigold to take home; discover how plants, people, and animals react to different kinds of weather; make leaf and bark rubbings; and discover how pollution affects our water, using the Enviroscape model.

Tom Skilling

Bob Jordan

The Dedication Ceremony In keeping with the Garden’s mission to promote the enjoyment, understanding, and conservation of plants and the natural world, the Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden will provide a dedicated place for children, parents, and teachers to participate in active, hands-on planting programs. The 9 a.m. dedication ceremony on June 2 is open to the public and features a ribbon cutting, tours of the garden, and activity stations for children. After the ceremony concludes, designated areas of the Garden will offer free activities in celebration of World Environment Day. The Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden dedication activities are underwritten by the generosity of

Plant Container Recycling From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the public is invited to take advantage of the Garden’s annual Plastic Plant Container Recycling Program and bring their plastic pots, cell packs, trays, and plant labels to the recycling station set up in parking lot 4. Please knock out dirt and debris before bringing your containers to the Garden.

A complete schedule of World Environment Day events is available on the Garden’s website. Garden trolley service to the Glencoe Metra stop will be available.

The Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden is made possible through the generosity of Esther Grunsfeld Klatz and Ernest A. Grunsfeld III; the Robert R. McCormick Foundation; the Guild of the Chicago Botanic Garden; and the support of the Public Museum Capital Grants Program, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Illinois State Museum; Lorraine Ipsen-Stotler; Barbara and Richard Metzler; Make It Better, the Colonel Stanley R. McNeil Foundation, and other donors.

The Garden’s 2012 celebration of World Environment Day is generously supported by the following sponsors:

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World Environment Day

Filled with exciting activities and marked with a special dedication ceremony, the Garden’s fifth annual celebration of World Environment Day is on Saturday, June 2. The day begins with a 9 a.m. dedication ceremony for the opening of the new Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden on the north end of the Garden, where a variety of programs will connect children with nature. Tom Skilling, WGN-TV’s chief meteorologist, and Bob Jordan, weekend anchor at WGN-TV’s News at Nine, will give a keynote presentation at 10:30 a.m. in the Regenstein Center providing an overview of recent weather events and their impact both globally and locally. Tickets are available online or at the Visitor Center; nonmembers pay $12 and members receive a 20 percent discount.

Summer Music

Evenings Your Summer Soundtrack Summer Evenings at the Garden are exceptional. Four nights a week, during the Garden’s extended summer hours, you can relax and enjoy live music as the sun sets. From Saturday, June 2, through Labor Day, the Garden, Garden Café, and Garden Shop are open until 9 p.m.

During evenings, the Garden showcases a free program of performances featuring local bands and musicians in a variety of genres. Come early and enjoy dinner at the Garden Café, or—Evenings only—take a picnic dinner to go from the Garden Grille. Light fare and refreshments are also available for purchase at McGinley Pavilion, or you can bring your own. Alcoholic beverages must be purchased on-site.

Carillon Concerts Mondays, June 4 through September 3, 7 p.m. (tours begin at 5:30 p.m.) Listen to talented carillonneurs from around the globe as they perform popular songs on the 48-bell Theodore C. Butz Memorial Carillon. Then, watch as lights gradually illuminate Evening Island as the sun sets to the west. Visitors have a chance to meet the carillonneurs and enjoy a free carillon tour and demonstration before the concert.

The season’s first Carillon Concert commemorates the people and special occasions that have been honored and celebrated through a dedicated Tribute Gift.

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Music on the Esplanade Tuesdays, June 5 through August 28, 6 to 8 p.m. Unwind from a long day and listen to performances by local musicians on the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Esplanade. Every Tuesday showcases music from a variety of genres, including Spanish guitar, jazz, blues, country and western, and more.

Dancin’ Sprouts Wednesdays, June 6 through August 29, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Garden’s youngest visitors enjoy the outdoors while dancing around to the musical stylings of Chicagoland’s top children’s entertainers, such as Buck Howdy, Macaroni Soup, ScribbleMonster, and more.

Families enjoy picnicking as they rock out to the thumping rhythms, memorable sing-a longs, and original children’s music.

Hot Summer Nights Thursdays, June 7 through August 30, 6 to 8 p.m. Take advantage of this special evening series to learn a new dance move or two! Professional dance instructors are on hand to provide easy mini-lessons that correspond to the night’s musical genre.

One very special Hot Summer Night on July 12 will commemorate the Garden’s 40th anniversary with ’70s music.

The entire Summer Evenings concert schedule, including music samples of the artists scheduled to perform, is available on the Garden’s website.

Highlighting the best of Mexico’s regional cuisine and beverages—tastings of tequila, specialty cocktails, Mexican beers, traditional food, and live music!

Celebrate the best of Mexican food and spirits during Taste of Mexico on Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, from noon to 6 p.m.

This exciting weekend showcases Mexico’s rich heritage with tastings of the country’s best tequilas, specialty cocktails, and Mexican beer. Enjoy traditional dishes from various Mexican states such as Oaxaca, Jalisco, Veracruz, and Guanajuato (available for purchase). Hear regional live music on an entertainment stage, which will also feature cooking demonstrations and tips to help you learn about and choose among the many tequilas available. You may also win a trip to Mexico courtesy of American Airlines.

Did you know?

Tequila is made from the distilled sap of the blue agave plant and is the national drink of Mexico. In order to be labeled tequila, the spirit must contain at least 51 percent of the blue agave plant; otherwise it is called mezcal. The most pronounced difference between mezcal and tequila is that mezcal offers a bold, smoky flavor—a result of roasting the agave before distillation.

Tickets purchased in advance are $25 for members; nonmembers pay $30. Tickets purchased at the door are $30 for members; nonmembers pay $35. You must be 21 years old to purchase tickets for this event. The ticket price includes a wristband to participate in tastings, a tasting glass, an event program, and ten tasting tickets. Full-sized drinks and food are available for purchase.

Tickets are now available on the Garden’s website or inside the Visitor Center.

Tequila is made from the blue agave plant (Agave tequilana).

The official airline of the Chicago Botanic Garden

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Taste of Mexico

New for 2012: Taste of Mexico

Summer Events

This summer at the Garden Forty Years Through Photos The Chicago Botanic Garden turns 40 in June and is commemorating this milestone with the special website: forty.chicagobotanic.org.

Past and present Garden members, staff, volunteers, and visitors are invited to upload their favorite Garden photographs and memories throughout the year, while enjoying an online treasure trove of special Garden occasions and major accomplishments.

Garden Chef Series Saturdays and Sundays, May 26 through October 7, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. All summer long, discover mouthwatering recipes demonstrated by 40 of the Chicago area’s top chefs using fresh garden ingredients in the open-air amphitheater of the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden. These weekend cooking demonstrations are free, and reservations are not necessary. The Garden Chef Series is made possible with the generous support of Food Network Magazine.

Farmers’ Market First and third Sundays of the month, June 3 through October 21, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Farmer demonstrations are at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. For a fifth season, local farmers using sustainable methods and the Garden’s own Green Youth Farm are selling seasonal produce, freshcut flowers, meat, baked goods, honey, and much more along the Esplanade. Farmers and guest speakers present demonstrations on a variety of sustainable agriculture and gardening topics at each market throughout the summer and into early fall. The Farmers’ Market is made possible by the generous support of Equinox. Farmer demonstrations are supported by the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Tuesday Morning Music Tuesdays, June 5 through August 28, 10 to 11 a.m. Bask in the beautiful summer vistas of Evening Island and the Gardens of the Great Basin as you listen to meditative musical performances varying from string quartets to children’s chamber music.

Visitors seeking new ways to enjoy their summer mornings will not want to miss this series.

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Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival Friday, July 6, through Sunday, July 8, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Stroll and shop among 80 juried artists selling paintings, delicate handblown glass objets d’art, jewelry, sculpture, photography, and more—all reflecting a botanical theme. Artists will give interactive demonstrations and booth chats throughout the weekend. There will also be a family activity tent where children create their own works of art. Enjoy a free preview for members on Thursday, July 5, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. See artist demonstrations and receive a festival poster; cash bar available.

Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens Saturday, July 14, through Sunday, September 30 This exhibition in the Joutras Gallery features photographs of African American folk gardens and their creators by award-winning photographer Vaughn Sills. Through her patient search up and down small-town streets and dusty rural roads throughout the south, Sills has captured landscapes with a unique historical significance. Places for the Spirit offers a powerful testament to a vanishing element of African American culture.

The Garden has partnered with the DuSable Museum of African American History to bring this remarkable exhibition to both institutions.

Photo at right, Pearl Fryar’s garden, Bishopville, South Carolina, 2002, is from the exhibition. Photographer: Vaughn Sills.

Farm Dinners Wednesdays, July 18, August 15, and September 5, 5 to 8 p.m. Enjoy a spectacular multicourse meal featuring locally grown food with the sunset as backdrop in the beautiful Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden. Prepared by Chef Cleetus Friedman, the dishes are a culinary celebration of the midwestern farmland and bring together local farmers, distillers, winemakers, breweries, and the Garden’s own Green Youth Farm. In addition to the family-style meal, guests will tour sections of the Fruit & Vegetable Garden and learn about organic vegetable gardening practices. Preregistration is required; fee applies.

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Photo by Vaughn Sills

Summer Events

This summer at the Garden

Summer Calendar

Between June 2 and Labor Day, the Garden is open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Garden Café hours are 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, and the outdoor Garden Grille is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, weather permitting (last order at 8:30 p.m.). Plant Information Service hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.

Mondays Carillon Concert 5:30 p.m. tour, 7 p.m. concert, June 4 through September 3.

Tuesdays Tuesday Morning Music 10 to 11 a.m., June 5 through August 28.

MAY

The Serpentine Bridge connects Evening Island to the Lakeside Gardens.

Ongoing

Sunday, May 13 Mother’s Day Brunch seatings at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., and 1 p.m.; reservations required.

Wednesdays

Library Exhibition: Renaissance Artists: Illustrations of Science and Art through May 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends; closed holidays.

Dancin’ Sprouts 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., June 6 through August 29.

Story Time in the Lenhardt Library Mondays through May 21, 10 to 11 a.m.

Thursday, May 17

Garden Plus members receive free tram tours, plus free admission to the Model Railroad Garden and the butterfly exhibit, on Wednesdays.

Saturday, May 5

Members-Only Preview Evening: A Bloomin’ Festival 4 to 7 p.m.; ticket required.

Photo Exhibition; Nature In View through July 8; Joutras Gallery.

Friday, May 18

Music on the Esplanade 6 to 8 p.m., June 5 through August 28.

Thursdays Hot Summer Nights 6 to 8 p.m., June 7 through August 30.

Saturdays and Sundays Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 2 through September 30.

Garden Chef Series Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m., May 26 through October 7.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the first and third Sundays of each month, June 3 through October 21.

Garden Trolley Service to Glencoe Metra Sundays only, May 13 through October 28; $2 round-trip per person; free for Garden members and children 5 and under. The trolley is wheelchair accessible.

Daily

Monthly Photo Walk meets in the Alsdorf Auditorium at 9 a.m.

Central States Dahlia Society Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Glenview/North Shore African Violet Society Display Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Spring Garden Walk meet in front of the “What’s In Bloom” Cart at 1 p.m.

Sunday, May 6 Central States Dahlia Society Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

American Rhododendron Society Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Library Exhibition: Rare Seeds, Creative Harvest: Artist Books Inspired by the Rare Book Collection through August 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends; closed holidays.

Special Members-Only Hours: A Bloomin’ Festival 1 to 5 p.m., parking lot 5.

Saturday, May 19 Spring Garden Walk meet in front of the “What’s In Bloom” Cart at 1 p.m. Join an expert from Autumn Tree, a SavATree company, to discover the contributions trees add to the spring landscape.

Saturday & Sunday, May 19 & 20

Glenview/North Shore African Violet Society Display Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Midwest Bonsai Society Spring Show & Sale 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday, May 12

A Bloomin’ Festival 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; parking lot 5.

Teacher Programs: Plant & Animal Interactions Brookfield Zoo, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; preregistration required; fee applies. Workshop continues at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 19. See page 81 for more information.

Tram Tours offering a 35-minute narrated tour of the main island or the perimeter of the Garden, April 20 through October 28. The wheelchair-accessible Bright Encounters tram is equipped with solar panels, thanks to the generous support of the Josephine P. & John J. Louis Foundation. Fee applies.

Model Railroad Garden: Landmarks of America opens, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; through October 28; fee applies.

Model Railroad Garden: Landmarks of America 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, May 12 through October 28, weather permitting; special hours until 8 p.m. on Wednesdays only from June 6 through August 29; closes at 3 p.m. on June 22; fee applies.

Spring Garden Walk begins at the “What’s In Bloom” Cart, 1 p.m.

American Rhododendron Society Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Malott Japanese Garden Children’s Festival 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., McGinley Pavilion.

Saturday, May 26 Northshore Iris & Daylily Society Iris Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Garden Chef Series begins, Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden; 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 27 Northshore Iris & Daylily Society Iris Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Garden Chef Series begins, Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m.

New! Butterlies & Blooms Come visit the Garden’s new indoor butterfly exhibition, located on the lawn of the Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden. Fee applies.

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Calendar Taiko drumming is part of the Malott Japanese Garden Summer festival in August.

JUNE Ongoing

Saturday, June 9

Monday, June 18

Library Exhibition: Rare Seeds, Creative Harvest: Artist Books Inspired by the Rare Books Collection through August 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends; closed holidays.

Ikebana International Show 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 10

Camp CBG begins for children ages 2 to 15; sessions through August 17; preregistration required; fee applies. See page 74 for more information.

Ikebana International Show 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Friday, June 22

Thursday, June 14

Garden closes at 3 p.m. for an event in support of our conservation science and education programs.

Regenstein School: Backstage Pass: Shoreline Restoration Project 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.; preregistration required; fee applies; see page 22 for more information.

Summer Dinner Dance 7 p.m.; ticket required; call (847) 835-6944 for more information.

Photo Exhibition: Nature In View through July 8; Joutras Gallery.

Saturday, June 2 Monthly Photo Walk begins in Alsdorf Auditorium, 9 a.m.

Northern Illinois Hosta Society Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Nature Night: Sensory Stroll 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for more information.

June 2

World Environment Day Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden Opening 9 a.m. The dedication event includes remarks followed by a ribbon cutting, tours of the garden, and activity stations for children.

Keynote Speakers: WGN Meteorologist Tom Skilling with WGN Weekend News Anchor Bob Jordan 10:30 a.m., Alsdorf Auditorium; fee applies.

World Environment Day activities 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Gardenwide.

Plastic Plant Container Recycling 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., parking lot 4.

New Member Day

Saturday, June 16 Total Care for the Athlete at Heart 8 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. Free. Register at www.northshore/athleteatheart or call (847) 492-5700 x1210.

Father’s Day Canoe Adventure 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., or 3 p.m.; maximum of three participants per boat; preregistration required; fee applies. See page 55 for more information.

Sogetsu School of Illinois Ikebana Sogetsu Exhibition noon to 4:30 p.m.

Taste of Mexico noon to 6 p.m.; ticket required.

See page 13 for more information.

Free Library Talk: “Rare Seeds, Creative Harvest: Artist Books Inspired by the Rare Book Collection” 2 p.m.

Nature Nights: Sensory Stroll 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for more information.

Sunday, June 17

See page 8 for more information, and visit www.chicagobotanic.org/wed for additional details.

Father’s Day Canoe Adventure 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., or 3 p.m.; maximum of three participants per boat; preregistration required; fee applies. See page 55 for more information.

Sunday, June 3

Sogetsu School of Illinois Ikebana Sogetsu Exhibition 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Northern Illinois Hosta Society Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Malott Japanese Garden Family Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m on “Raising Backyard Chickens.”

Saturday & Sunday, June 23 & 24 Health Through Horticulture: Aromatic Herbs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Buehler Enabling Garden.

Thursday, June 28 Trees as a Legacy in Design and Development Presented by Bartlett Tree Experts and the Chicago Botanic Garden 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; fee applies.

Trees are integral to landscape design and help create an enduring sense of place.

How can we ensure their legacy? Keynoted by renowned landscape architect Peter Walker, co-designer of the National September 11 Memorial, this interdisciplinary symposium explores design successes, pests and the urban forest, the challenges of urban soils, trees as economic drivers, and legacy trees in Chicago’s historic parks. The day includes walking tours of the Garden, lunch, a reception, and a Hot Summer Nights concert.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school for more information and to register.

Malott Japanese Garden Family Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Taste of Mexico noon to 6 p.m.; ticket required.

See page 13 for more information.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on “Beekeeping Basics.”

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JULY Ongoing

Saturday, July 14

Wednesday, July 25

Library Exhibition: Rare Seeds, Creative Harvest: Artist Books Inspired by the Rare Books Collection through August 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends; closed holidays.

Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens exhibition opens in Joutras Gallery. See page 16.

Green Youth Farm Washington Park/Dyett Open House off site, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Green Youth Farm students give tours and answer questions on sustainable urban agriculture; call (847) 835-6896 for reservations.

Camp CBG for children ages 2 to 15; sessions through August 17; preregistration required; fee applies. See page 74 for more information.

Sunday, July 1 Malott Japanese Garden Family Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on “Backyard Composting Basics.”

Friday, July 6 Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Esplanade.

Saturday, July 7 Monthly Photo Walk begins in Alsdorf Auditorium, 9 a.m.

Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Esplanade.

Wisconsin-Illinois Lily Society Lily Show 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Nature Night: Harvest Hike 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for information.

Sunday, July 8 Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Esplanade.

Wisconsin-Illinois Lily Society Lily Show 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Northshore Iris & Daylily Society Daylily Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, July 15 New Member Day Northshore Iris & Daylily Society Daylily Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Malott Japanese Garden Family Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on “Companion Planting with Herbs and Vegetables.”

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Saturday & Sunday, July 28 & 29 Herb Garden Weekend 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden.

Illinois African Violet Society State Show & Sale noon to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday; 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Wednesday, July 18 Farm Dinner 5 to 8 p.m., Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden; preregistration required; fee applies.

Thursday, July 19 Gardens of Distinction Bus Tour with Doug Hoerr Exclusive President’s Circle Event. Call (847) 835-8215 to join the President’s Circle or for more information.

Saturday, July 21 Nature Night: Harvest Hike 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for information.

Saturday & Sunday, July 21 & 22 Cactus and Succulent Society of Greater Chicago Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Bromeliad Society of Greater Chicago Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Health Through Horticulture: Lavender Sachets 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Buehler Enabling Garden.

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The open house is made possible by a grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Save Now for Next Season! Seed Swap Reminder Start saving your seeds this summer and fall for the next growing season—and for the Garden’s Seed Swap next February. Watch for more information about this event, in which gardeners bring saved or leftover seed packets to share and swap with other gardeners.

Check out “Seed Saving for Beginners” demonstrations at the September 2 Farmers’ Market, 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.

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AUGUST Ongoing

Friday, August 17

Library Exhibition: Rare Seeds, Creative Harvest: Artist Books Inspired by the Rare Books Collection through August 12, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends; closed holidays.

Mid-America Bonsai Show & Sale noon to 5 p.m.

Camp CBG for children ages 2 to 15; sessions through August 17; preregistration required; fee applies. See page 74 for more information.

Saturday, August 4 Monthly Photo Walk begins in Alsdorf Auditorium, 9 a.m.

Saturday, August 18 New Member Day Nature Night: Sculpture Scavenger Hunt 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for information.

Garden Walk Meet in front of the “What’s in Bloom” Cart at 1 p.m. to join an expert from Autumn Tree, a SavATree Company.

Saturday & Sunday, August 18 & 19

Nature Night: Sculpture Scavenger Hunt 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for information.

Mid-America Bonsai Show & Sale 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday, August 5

Malott Japanese Garden Summer Festival 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Malott Japanese Garden Family Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on “Insect and Disease Pests.”

Saturday, August 11 Kite Festival 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Health Through Horticulture: Pressed Flower River Rocks 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Buehler Enabling Garden.

Sunday, August 19 Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on “An Introduction to Cover Crops.”

Gardeners of the North Shore Show noon to 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, August 25

Sunday, August 12

Heirloom Tomato Weekend 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden.

Kite Festival 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Gardeners of the North Shore Show 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, August 15 Farm Dinner 5 to 8 p.m., Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden; preregistration required; fee applies.

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Backstage Pass: Shoreline Restoration Project Thursday, June 14

Are you wondering why the Garden’s North Lake is drained, or what all the construction equipment is doing down in the bottom of the lake? Join this walking tour for a behind-the-scenes look at our North Lake shoreline restoration project. See how stone, fabric, geonet—and most especially, 120,000 native plants—are being used to transform 1¼ miles of eroding lakeshore into a landscape that’s easy on the eye and rich in diversity.

See page 55 for more information.

Sunday, August 26 Lakeshore African Violet Society Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Heirloom Tomato Weekend 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden.

Roadside Flower Sale Workshops 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.; call (847) 835-8392 to register for workshops.

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Lakeshore African Violet Society Show & Sale noon to 4:30 p.m.

Monday – Thursday, August 27 – 30

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For the safety of our visitors during the restoration project, the northern portion of the Garden’s West Road is closed to pedestrian traffic Mondays through Fridays.

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Exhibition: Places for the Spirit traditional African-American garden exhibition; through September 30, Joutras Gallery. See page 16 for more information.

Library Exhibition: Botanical Art: Expressions of Natural Beauty through November 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends; closed holidays.

The Chicago Botanic Garden and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Ecosystem Restoration Program launched a ten-month project in November to restore 6,400 feet of shoreline around the Garden’s North Lake. Once finished this fall, the reconstructed shoreline will feature more than 120,000 native plants, which will help prevent future shoreline erosion. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/shoreline for more information on the Garden’s award-winning shoreline restoration program.

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Ongoing Library Exhibition: Botanical Art: Expression of Natural Beauty through November 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; noon to 4:30 p.m. weekends; closed holidays.

Sunday, September 2

Friday – Sunday, September 7 – 9

Illinois Mycological Association Mushroom Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Roadside Flower Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Malott Japanese Garden Family Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Northeastern Illinois Rose Society Show & Sale noon to 4:30 p.m.

Exhibition: Places for the Spirit traditional African-American garden exhibition; through September 30, Joutras Gallery. See page 16 for more information.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m on “Seed Saving for Beginners.”

Saturday, September 1

Wednesday, September 5

Monthly Photo Walk begins in Alsdorf Auditorium, 9 a.m.

Windy City Harvest Open House off site, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Windy City Harvest students give tours and answer questions on sustainable urban agriculture; call (847) 835-6896 for reservations.

Nature Night: Fantastic Forests 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for information.

Farm Dinner 5 to 8 p.m., Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden; preregistration required; fee applies.

Saturday, September 15 Nature Night: Fantastic Forests 5 to 7:30 p.m.; see page 73 for information.

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SEPTEMBER

Saturday & Sunday, September 15 & 16 Illinois Gourd Society Show & Sale 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Health Through Horticulture: Aromatic Herbs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Buehler Enabling Garden Sunday, September 16 Malott Japanese Garden Family Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Farmers’ Market 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; free demonstrations at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m on “Solar Power Basics.”

Friday, September 9 Free Library Talk: “Botanical Art: Expressions of Natural Beauty” 2 p.m.

Looking Ahead to Fall Healing Nature: Chicago Regional Forum on Ethics and Sustainability October 16 Why is nature critical to human well-being? Why is it important that we contribute to the well-being of nature? This year’s Chicago Regional Forum on Ethics and Sustainability brings together local and national experts to present their perspectives on the relationship between nature and personal and social health, and to engage in a discussion about how our current knowledge can inform ethical relationships to place, community goals and policies for shared natural areas, and effective conservation strategies.

Janet Meakin Poor Symposium: Fire Ecology October 26 This year’s Janet Meakin Poor Symposium explores the processes linking the natural incidence of fire in an ecosystem and its ecological effects. Many eco-systems, such as the North American prairie, have evolved with fire as a natural and necessary contributor to habitat vitality and renewal. The Garden practices fire ecology with controlled burns along the Skokie River Corridor and Dixon Prairie in order to maintain plant health and encourage new growth.

Support is provided in part by the Janet Meakin Poor Research Symposium Endowment.

American Society for Horticultural Science Certified Horticulturist Examination November 12 The American Society for Horticultural Science Certified Horticulturist Program is a national credential validating the knowledge and skills of working horticultural practitioners in the horticulture industry.

For details including registration, fees, and application dates, please visit ashs.org.

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In 1977, five years after it opened to the public, the Chicago Botanic Garden’s volunteer team consisted of 250 dedicated individuals. Today, nearly 1,300 of them plant annuals, track bloom times, greet visitors, and help in classrooms and assist in “a hundred other ways,” according to Director of Volunteer Services Judy Cashen.

Volunteers Tell Their Stories A Special Bond with the Garden for 40 Years Peter Dogiakos has logged more than 5,000 hours in the Buehler Enabling Garden since 1997. A few years earlier, in 1994, he found himself an unexpected patient at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. A stroke at age 36 had paralyzed his right side, leaving him unable to speak or walk. “I needed to do something because I was down in the dumps,” he said.

Dogiakos recalls the day when Gene Rothert, then the Garden’s manager of Horticultural Therapy, described how a person with a disability still can care for plants. “Even when you break a portion of it, the plant will go on,” Dogiakos heard Rothert explain at the Institute.

“That’s what I remember—that’s exactly what had happened to me.”

Dogiakos already knew from his work as a grocer how to talk to people.

His role as volunteer greeter, among many other tasks at the Enabling Garden, was part of what helped him learn to speak again at all.

These days, he most enjoys the “a ha” moments when he explains the features of the Enabling Garden to people unaware they are in an enabling garden. In 2011, Dogiakos was named Volunteer of the Year.

Gwenne Godwin gardened with her mother as a child. Now, she lives in Evanston and cultivates the same plot her grandmother once did.

First drawn to the Garden for the pleasant surroundings, Godwin enrolled in the Master Gardener program, which led to her volunteer work with the Garden’s Green Youth Farm program. Soon after finishing her Master Gardener coursework in 2009, at age 45, Godwin was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was then that the Garden took on a vital new role for her.

Throughout her treatment and recovery, volunteering at the Garden, along with tending her vegetable garden, became Godwin’s therapy. She is certain that the laughter and fun she experienced as she volunteered, along with a diet of homegrown vegetables, aided her recovery. She also describes the Garden as having a strong spiritual pull. “You are in God’s house everywhere,” she said, “but it’s most evident when you are among things that are living.”

Today, Godwin is the picture of vibrant good health. Her hair, lost during chemotherapy, has grown back in exuberant curls. Outside the Garden, she is a Master Electrician and theatrical lighting designer. Godwin’s dual personae occasionally overlap in conversations about college plans with high school students in the Green Youth Farm program.

Every volunteer has a unique story about what brought him or her to the Garden, and some are told here. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/volunteer to read others.

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Asked to name her favorite Garden spot, Hagenah thinks long and hard. “I guess my favorite part is walking out of the Visitor Center and over the bridge, because everything is there before you,” she said. “It’s the beginning of whatever you want for that day, and each day is different.”

As is the case with more than a few female volunteers, Schmitz signed up to volunteer when she found herself with hours to fill in the day, after her daughter began school full-time. Her first assignment, 32 years ago, was to help plant the Dixon Prairie.

Eventually, when her husband passed away, Schmitz returned to work as a chemist and volunteered on weekends. Over time she volunteered in the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden, served as a guide, and tromped across the grounds recording what was in bloom as an amateur phenologist. Somewhere in the midst of all that volunteering, Joanne met fellow volunteer Lee Schmitz. Love bloomed; they married.

When Lee passed away 19 years later, Joanne again found solace in her volunteer work at the Garden. “It can be very healing,” she said. “It’s a place where you enjoy the people.

There are times in your life when you need something that’s very familiar to you.”

If one were to trace the volunteer program of the Chicago Botanic Garden back to square one, Tricia Hagenah would be standing on it. She was among the first group trained to offer tours in 1972, the year the Garden opened, and she remains a guide today.

Hagenah confesses that she, like most people, is not immune to modern rush-rush.

Commitments can pile up, spilling over to days when she is scheduled to lead one or more tours at the Garden. But the Garden always comes first, and Hagenah says she benefits as much as the people she guides. “By the time I’ve

Why does Tricia Hagenah’s enthusiasm remain so strong, four decades years after she led her first volunteer tour?

“Because I love the Garden,” she said. “When you’re a tour guide, you are the Garden.”

The Garden’s herbarium contains more than 16,000 specimens in the Nancy Poole Rich Herbarium Collection.

Phyllis Baer pauses to do the mental math. She estimates she has mounted close to 11,000 of them. “Gosh, that’s a lot of mounting,” she says, briefly amazed at her own work.

She’s been doing it for 23 years.

Before preserved plant specimens are stored in huge rolling cabinets in the herbarium, within the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center, they must be classified and—Baer’s job—labeled and mounted on acidfree paper.

Baer began volunteering after she retired from 25 years of teaching art in Chicago suburban elementary schools. “I didn’t want to just sit home and watch television,” she said.

Baer’s husband, Dick Baer, became a volunteer, too. Phyllis calls him the Garden’s poet laureate—whose specialty is humorous poetry for the annual volunteer award reception.

When not in the Herbarium, Baer staffs the Regenstein Center’s Information Desk. “I love talking to people and finding out why they’re visiting or where they’re from,” she said. Baer gives a tremendous amount of her time and talent to the Garden, but she sees herself as getting as much as she gives, crediting the Garden with keeping her youthful, busy, and socially active.

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finished, I feel rejuvenated,” she explained. “I get so excited about being here and helping other people see all the wonderful things there are.”

Joanne Schmitz lives little more than a stone’s throw from the Garden, in the same house she lived in when she watched it being built more than 40 years ago. But the Garden is more to Schmitz than a neighbor.

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Grow On! Plans for Exciting New Plant Production Greenhouses and Nursery in the Works Like other great gardens of the world, the Chicago Botanic Garden is a living museum, one with an expanding collection of more than 2.5 million plants. Unlike a museum painting or a sculpture, however, a tree continues to grow and is subject to the vagaries of weather, insects, and disease. Some specimens in the Garden’s collection are decades old; others, such as spring-blooming annuals, are grown by the thousands for a single-season display.

Nearly a quarter million plants move through the Garden’s production facilities each year. It may seem like magic when you stroll through some of the 24 display gardens, but members of the plant production team are more like conductors than magicians. They must organize all the players—pots, seeds, soil, bulbs, greenhouses, heaters, fertilizers, watering systems, and much more—to create memorable performances for the Garden’s nearly one million annual visitors.

It’s no easy task, especially when all of this must be done in greenhouses and cramped growing facilities that have aged beyond reasonable repair. The Garden’s original glasshouses were built in 1969, and others were donated used in 1981.

The panes, which are not made of safety glass, are slipping, and replacement parts are no longer made for some of the equipment. Not least, the Garden’s current facilities are among the smallest of all the renowned botanic institutions in the United States.

As a result, one of the Garden’s highest priorities in the next decade is to completely renovate our plant production greenhouses and nurseries. The project will not only replace all of the existing production facilities with modern, energy-efficient new greenhouses and nurseries, but

will allow the Garden to expand its collection of unusual orchids and tropical plants for stunning winter displays.

“All visitors and all programs will be affected by this,” said Kris Jarantoski, executive vice president and director. “A large facility with a larger number of growing environments is vital to serving our expanding gardens and exhibits, and serving our growing programs, from conservation restoration to flower shows to organic vegetable production.”

The demand for plants from the current space has resulted in plants that grow too closely together, which increases the likelihood of disease. When completed, the new plant production area—on the Garden’s south side, adjacent to the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center—will contain 52,000 square feet of indoor growing space with 26 climate zones versus the 18,000 square feet and 11 zones in use today. It will also feature 130,000 square feet of nursery space.

“We’ve made do, but things are growing together that shouldn’t be, like tropical bonsai next to spring annuals, and their quality suffers as a result,” Jarantoski said. “If we want to improve on our great tradition of horticultural excellence and serve our expanding collections and programs, we need a new facility.”

The Garden has one of the top bonsai collections in North America, and the new plant production area will double the outdoor bonsai space. Bonsai shows at the Garden already draw large crowds; with new orchid-production capabilities provided by the facility, orchid shows are expected to attract many visitors as well, providing a welcome respite during drab winter months.

When the Garden’s new plant production greenhouses and nursery are built, the Garden will be able to expand its collection of orchids and tropical plants. The facility, on the Garden’s south side, will feature 26 climate zones and 52,000 square feet of indoor growing space.

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Doing the Math In 1981, the Garden had one display garden and a collection of about 100,000 plants.

Today, the same growing facilities must support 24 display gardens and more than two million plants.

Production within the Chicago Botanic Garden’s current growing facilities: • 65,000 spring annuals • 80,000 summer annuals • 30,000 autumn annuals • 2,000 winter holiday plants Among the many planned features are two new greenhouses that will be dedicated to vegetables and herbs that are grown organically from the seed-sowing stage to transplantation in the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden and other display gardens.

• 10,000-plus research plants

A living museum is only as good as the health of its plant collections and horticultural displays. The new facility, designed to eliminate inefficiency and reduce waste, will ensure the Garden’s ability to maintain horticultural excellence, support advanced plant conservation research, and continue its educational efforts.

“The existing growing facility has supported the Garden’s growth into one of the great botanic gardens of the world, but the new one will allow us to create displays and programs that are envisioned but not yet possible,” said Jarantoski.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/collections/horticulture to learn more about plant production, plant health, and the display gardens.

An anonymous donor, Mrs. Beverly J. Bystricky, and other donors have provided early generous support for this project.

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Technology enhances Garden visits through new smartphone app Introducing the Chicago Botanic Garden Smartphone App: interactive map, tour guide, announcer of what’s new, Garden plant finder, and general plant guide, among other fun and useful things.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/app for more information, including how to use the plant finder on our website. You supply the smartphone or iPad, and we’ll supply the rest. There will also be computers stationed at four locations in the Garden so that visitors without smartphones can access our app while they are here.

Interactive Map The Garden’s app map enables you to pinpoint your location in the Garden. Just touch where you want to go and track progress to your destination.

Pinch and zoom to change the map’s magnification and see an information pin that explains a garden feature or plant when you touch it.

Walking Tours Choose from ten to 15 different types of walking tours that each add a layer to the app map showing a specific type of walk. One walk highlights aquatic plants; another is a photo walk showing especially good places to take pictures. A path on the map indicates where you should walk, with key information pins that can be touched for more information.

What’s New Alerts From your smartphone app, these alerts will announce which plants are in bloom, and notify you of Garden events.

Plant Finder Type a plant name (common or Latin) to find the plant you seek. When selected, the plant adds an information pin to the Garden’s app map, noting its location relative to where you are within the Garden.

Plant Guide Home gardeners and landscapers can access Garden plant information web pages to discover plants best suited for their needs. Search by nine different plant characteristics and browse the results! Save the plants you like best in My Favorites and retrieve them easily later.

This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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Honoring Garden Leaders Each year at the Chicago Botanic Garden, extraordinary individuals are honored with prestigious medals and awards. Established in 1980, the Chicago Horticultural Society Medal follows a tradition begun by the Society in the late nineteenth century of recognizing outstanding service of enduring benefit to the Society involving leadership, devotion, and courage. The Hutchinson Medal, created in 1894, recognizes outstanding leadership or a professional accomplishment that has been significant in furthering horticulture, plant science, or conservation.

Chicago Horticultural Society Medal Recipients Robert H. Malott Always willing to call or dash off a letter to elected officials, Bob Malott’s dedication to the Garden has been deep, and enduring. His family’s trust and foundation supports the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden and has made possible a publication on the Garden’s esteemed Bonsai Collection. Malott has been a Garden member since 1998, a Board member since 2000, and a Life Director since 2011.

Richard L. Thomas Dick Thomas joined the Chicago Botanic Garden board in 1999, during a distinguished career as one of Chicago’s most respected civic and corporate leaders. Since then, he has served on and often cochaired virtually every Garden committee, initiative, and campaign. Thomas has helped the Garden build a solid foundation for the future and continues to encourage others to do so as well; under his leadership, the Garden has become one of Chicago’s leading cultural institutions.

Hutchinson Medal Recipients Gerald W. Adelmann Jerry Adelmann’s 30-year career is rich in ecological accomplishments. He has forged partnerships among activists, public officials, business leaders, and citizens to save Chicago landscapes for future generations. He joined Openlands in 1980, assumed leadership of the organization in 1988, and was instrumental in creating the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Openlands Lakeshore Preserve. Adelmann chairs the Center for Humans and Nature and the Mayor’s Nature and Wildlife Committee.

August A. De Hertogh, Ph.D. Known as the “grandfather of bulbs,” Dr. Gus De Hertogh has extensively researched bulb production and handling, specializing in the physiology of ornamental flowering bulbs. De Hertogh serves as review editor for the American Society for Horticultural Science’s The Journal and is associate editor of HortScience.

Currently emeritus professor at North Carolina State University, he has been honored by groups such as the American Society for Horticultural Science, the Society of American Florists, and the American Horticultural Society, among many others.

Our heartfelt congratulations and thanks to these distinguished leaders.

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Then and Now

The Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden

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Then One of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s most beloved features began taking shape in 1975, when Dr. Koichi Kawana’s design for a Japanese garden became reality.

Dedicated seven years later in 1982, Sansho-En, or the Garden of Three Islands, offered visitors a chance to experience one of the world’s great horticultural art forms.

Today Sansho-En is the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden, and it remains a favorite among Garden visitors every season of the year. “Throughout spring and summer, Sansho-En is a lush and beautiful space that uses many shades of green with punctuations of blooms,” said Benjamin Carroll, senior horticulturist for the Malott Japanese Garden. “The autumn color is also very vibrant.”

Many visitors especially admire the garden’s softness, silhouettes, and shadows after a winter snow.

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the largest and highest. In the island’s dry garden, gravel represents water and plants symbolize land. On Keiunto, azaleas in front of the island’s traditional Japanese lantern, Ikekomi, bloom each spring; mounds of azaleas cover an entire hillside and are particularly striking when they are in bloom. The second island, Seifuto (Island of Clear, Pure Breezes), is named for the gentle winds that refresh the island. Seifuto features wooded spaces and tranquil views of the other two islands. The third island, Horaijima, beckons from afar, and can be appreciated only from a distance.

It is the Island of Everlasting Happiness, representing a paradise inaccessible to mere mortals.

Dr. Kawana designed this garden in the kaiyu-shiki, or promenade, style developed in Japan in the seventeenth century. Visitors follow curving paths, a form that enables the architect to reveal his magic slowly, providing glimpses of what is yet to come. Reflecting the tradition of Japanese gardens, each plant and hardscape element was painstakingly selected and placed as a tribute to pure form.

During the 1990s, it became evident that many of the Garden’s lakeshores, including those surrounding the Malott Japanese Garden, were experiencing shoreline erosion. In late 2005 the lakes were drained, and for a year the view became less meditative—though more scientific, as visitors could see bioengineering techniques applied to foster the growth of aquatic plants and anchor shoreline soil. As part of the process, some 35,000 plants were restored, including more than a dozen grand Austria pine trees, anchored to the lake floor. It was at the culmination

Then & Now Antiques & Garden Fair “The purpose of a Japanese garden is to present natural forms and to create a tranquil beauty that leads the visitor from everyday life to a calm, serene, reflective communion with nature.” – Koichi Kawana, Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden designer

Then of this project, in 2006, that Sansho-En was rededicated and named the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden.

Carroll has enjoyed watching this garden mature over time.

“For many years, gardeners have worked to give young pine trees an older look, pruning, and drawing the branches down. Now these effects are happening more naturally,” he said. “Age is revered in Japanese culture, and the Malott Japanese Garden is earning a weathered patina that adds to its grace.”

The Malott Japanese Garden’s Shoin House, also designed by Koichi Kawana, is a tribute to traditional Samurai retreat quarters. The house was built in Japan by seven carpenters and reassembled here in Chicago in 1981. In keeping with the ideal of a completely natural structure, no nails were used in the house’s original construction.

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Our Top Ten Plants for Summer

By midsummer, this tidy perennial bears a cloud of white to light blue flowers that float above shiny, mint-scented leaves. A great front-of-the-border plant, calamint is deer resistant and drought tolerant. “It blooms for an incredibly long time and is a favorite of many pollinators. No garden should be without it,” said Jill Selinger, manager of continuing education. Lesser calamint may be found in the Josephine P. & John J. Louis Foundation Green Roof Garden North.

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Russian Sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia)

Scheherazade Lily (Lilium ‘Scheherazade’)

It’s hard not to like a plant that needs little maintenance, is pest resistant, and is also attractive. “Its gray foliage and light blue flowers pair well with practically anything, and the plant’s airy openness adds lightness to the garden—and it integrates well with other plants,” said Kris Jarantoski, executive vice president and director.

Give it full sun and well-drained soil. Russian sage is in the Heritage and Rose Gardens, among other places.

Photo by Jim Ault

Lesser Calamint (Calamintha nepeta ssp. nepeta)

Photo by Bill Bishoff

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Noteworthy Plants

From Pretty Face to Russian Sage:

Jim Ault, director of ornamental plant research, loves lilies, especially the Orienpets, hybrids between the Oriental and Trumpet lilies. “‘Scheherazade’ is an older Orienpet, lacking the fragrance of the newer selections but making up for it with a profusion of 6-inch-wide flowers in raspberry-red with a green-and-yellow throat and white edging,” Ault said. A reliable and hardy perennial, ‘Scheherazade’ begins flowering in July through August on vigorous, disease-free stems that can tower above 7 feet; visitors will find this lily in the Bulb Garden.

“Russian sage looks good for such a long time, this could be my pick for summer, fall, and winter!” — Kris Jarantoski, executive vice president and director

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Noteworthy Plants The number and variety of plants in the Chicago Botanic Garden’s vast collection are stunning. Imagine, then, the challenge of picking a handful of favorites from the 9,500 different kinds of plants on site. But that’s what we’ve done. To continue the yearlong celebration of the Garden’s 40th anniversary, research, horticulture, and education staff share their personal picks—ten each season, 40 in all. Here’s a look at their summer selections.

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Himalayan Foxtail Lily (Eremurus himalaicus)

Rozanne Geranium (Geranium ‘Rozanne’)

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Blue Anise Sage (Salvia guaranitica)

Photo by Jyoti Srivastava

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The Himalayan foxtail lily produces one of the most dramatic flowering displays at the Garden, according to Boyce Tankersley, director of living plant documentation. See it this summer in the English Walled and Bulb Gardens. This stately perennial prefers well-drained soil with protection from strong wind.

An easy-to-grow perennial with a long bloom period, this geranium is a favorite of Tim Johnson, director of horticulture. “My plants flowered into autumn at home,” he said. “The flowers blend well with other colors, and blue happens to be my favorite.” A mounding habit makes ‘Rozanne’ perfect for edging perennial beds in full sun to part shade.

Plant blue anise sage and you’re certain to attract winged wonders to your garden from summer through fall. “Blue anise sage is a favorite of mine, mainly because it’s a favorite nectar supply for hummingbirds and butterflies,” said Tim Pollak, outdoor floriculturist. Various cultivars offer flowers in pale blue, sky blue, blackish-blue, or dark purple. An annual, this salvia flourishes in average garden soil in full sun to part shade. Find it at the Garden this summer in the main entrance beds and the Crescent, Heritage, and Farwell Landscape Gardens, among other locations.

“In early summer, foxtail lily spikes bearing hundreds of pure white flowers burst from the ground, reaching up to 6 feet.” — Boyce Tankersley, director of living plant documentation www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo 35

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This carefree shrub offers flower power beyond the summer months. Its whitish-green flowers change to pink in late summer, eventually turning tan and adding interest in the winter landscape. “This one is a little more compact-growing than some of the other panicle hydrangeas, so it’s easier to keep under control,” said Tim Johnson, director of horticulture.

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Indian Pink (Spigelia marilandica)

Pretty Face (Triteleia ixioides) (syn. Brodiaea lutea)

Photo by Jim Ault

Found in moist woodlands, Indian Pink has clumps of dark-green leaves topped by red tubular flowers. “It’s perfectly hardy here, despite often being labeled as Zone 6, and it attracts hummingbirds to boot,” said Jim Ault, director of ornamental plant research. Ault grows this plant at home in dappled to deep shade alongside coral bells, bleeding hearts, and native wild ginger.

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Yellow Wild Indigo (Baptisia sphaerocarpa)

Photo by Russ Cary

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Limelight Panicle Hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’)

Photo by Boyce Tankersley

Noteworthy Plants

“Indian pink is an underutilized and relatively unknown, yet strikingly beautiful, native plant.” —Jim Ault, director of ornamental plant research

This refined plant bears umbels of star-shaped, delicate pale yellow flowers. “I have easily grown this plant for several years in our native alkaline soils. It provides a great bridge from the spring garden to summer,” said Galen Gates, curator of perennial herbaceous plants.

“If you want to expand the bulbs you grow, I highly recommend this one for early summer.” Garden visitors will find pretty face in the Bulb Garden.

This striking and versatile native plant grows in poor soils, in sun or in part shade, and it’s another of Jill Selinger’s summer favorites. “It has so many great qualities—bright yellow flowers in spring that rise above a mound of blue-green leaves, followed by very ornamental seed pods, which dry and hold nicely, or which can be cut for flower arrangements,” she said. “It seems at home in natural areas, as well as cottage gardens or perennial borders.”

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/explore for details on the 24 formal display gardens.

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Adult Education: Regenstein Botanical Arts School & Humanities

Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School Adult Education An extensive schedule provides a wealth of choices. Instruction by Garden staff and experts in their field ensures every class, workshop, or symposium is an exceptional learning experience.

Down-to-Earth Gardening Instruction Absolute beginners, seasoned gardeners, and even landscape business owners are always surprised at how much they learn during the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Hands-on Gardening summer series.

Instructor Dave Cantwell guides participants toward a vision of their ideal garden, providing information and helping them develop the skills they need to achieve and maintain their goals. Students appreciate Cantwell’s good humor and philosophy, which is “The best way to learn is through hands-on experience.”

Whether explaining how and when to prune or divide perennials, sharing the basics of edging and mulching, planting trees and shrubs, or gardening frugally, Cantwell teaches the general rules of gardening—then explains when to break them. “We bust myths and get back in touch with the rhythms of nature,” he said. See page 51 for a complete listing of this summer’s Hands-on Gardening courses.

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Hundreds of Hands-on Gardening students have gained confidence, going on to create the gardens of their dreams.

Symposia & Professional Programs Adult Education: Highlights

Highlights Father’s Day Canoe Adventure Saturday, June 16 or Sunday, June 17 See page 55.

New! Eight Months of Color for the Garden and Designing with Native Plants

Herb-Garden-Inspired Summer Spa Day at Mettawa Manor Tuesday, July 17 See page 62.

Saturday, June 16 See page 52.

New! Natural Vistas: Chicago’s Heirloom Landscapes

Oils with Michael Van Zeyl Saturday, July 28 & Sunday, July 29 See page 68.

Tuesday, June 19 See page 57.

Watercolor Workshop with Peggy Macnamara Saturday, June 30 See page 65.

Make Books, Make Poems: Workshops from The Sage Project

Certificate Programs Information Session FREE Information Session, Wednesday, August 22 See page 52.

New! Earth’s Bounty: Organic Farm and Lunch Experience Thursday, August 30 See page 48.

Saturday, July 14 See page 65.

Call (847) 835-8261 or visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school to register.

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Adult Education: Overview of Programs

Overview of Courses and Programs General Interest Courses Courses cover myriad topics and provide high-quality learning opportunities for beginning and more advanced gardeners. For specific program questions, contact the registrar at school@chicagobotanic.org or (847) 835-8261.

Professional Programs

Professional programs are intensive studies in a particular area of interest for the advanced student These courses routinely carry continuing education units for various professional organizations.

Please direct comments or topic suggestions to Jill Selinger at school@chicagobotanic.org or (847) 835-6849.

symposia

Symposia, offered throughout the year, provide an in-depth look at a variety of topics. Regional, national, and international speakers provide new perspectives for amateur gardeners, professional horticulturists, landscape designers and architects, scientists, conservationists, and other green-industry professionals. Please direct comments or topic suggestions to Beth Pinargote at school@chicagobotanic.org or (847) 835-8278.

Certificate Programs

Learn how a certificate of merit can help you fulfill a dream, start a new career, or delve more deeply into an area of interest. Look for these codes after a course listing, and find a course that may be a new beginning for you!

• Botanical Arts (ART) Engage your senses, discover hidden talents, and explore a more personal relationship with plants in this studio art program.

• Garden Design (GDC) Create successful gardens with a solid foundation in plantsmanship and science-based gardening techniques.

• Midwest Gardening (MGC) Discover practical, learner-friendly training on growing plants, plant propagation, and home garden design and you will become a more successful home gardener.

• Ornamental Plant Materials (OPC) Avid amateur gardeners and aspiring horticulture professionals alike will learn identification, cultural requirements, and landscape use for more than 500 ornamental plants that are well suited for northeastern Illinois.

• Healthcare Garden Design (HGD) In this professional development program, attendees will discover the many ways gardens provide verifiable health benefits for the patients, staff, and visitors.

• Horticultural Therapy (HTC) This 12-credit-hour accredited program combines online learning with hands-on training, allowing students to gain experience and skills in the use of plant, garden, and nature activities to achieve measurable physical and mental-health outcomes for clients.

Certificate programs are offered at many levels to give both beginners and professionals opportunities to improve their expertise and marketability.

Prepare yourself for a rewarding career in landscape maintenance or garden design, discover the world of botanical art, or receive hands-on training from a Chicago Botanic Garden horticulturist.

Details about all of the certificate programs are available at www.chicagobotanic.org/school/ certificate. Contact Amelia Simmons-Hurt at certificateprograms@chicagobotanic.org, or at (847) 835-8293 for further information.

• Professional Gardener Level 1 and 2 (PGL 1 and 2) Hands-on learning can lead to a new career or advancement in the industry, with science-based gardening techniques, plantsmanship, and training in sustainability and planning.

Master Gardener training Program

In conjunction with University of Illinois Extension, the Garden offers the Master Gardener Training Program. The program covers the basics of horticulture, including classes on woody and herbaceous ornamental plant materials, fruit and vegetable crops, entomology, and pathology.

After completing the training program and 60 hours of volunteer service, participants become certified University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners.

The next on-site program will begin in January 2013.

Please visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school/ mastergardener or call Jill Selinger at (847) 835-6849.

Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/school/faculty for faculty biographies.

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive a 20 percent discount on classes.

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The Garden offers many beautiful settings for botanical art students.

Adult Education: Symposia Botanical Arts & Professional & Humanities Programs

Symposia symposia allow participants to attend a single- or multi-day program on specific topics, ranging from general interest subjects to technical topics suited for practitioners and academicians. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from local, national, and international experts, and there will be ample time to network with gardening peers or professional colleagues.

new! Green economy and Chicago’s Weather World Environment Day Keynote Lecture June 2 Saturday 10:30 a.m. – noon Alsdorf Auditorium Robert H. Jordan, Jr., anchor, and Tom Skilling, chief meteorologist, WGN-TV $12 nonmember; members receive 20% discount The Chicago Botanic Garden celebrates World Environment Day with a keynote presentation featuring chief meteorologist Tom Skilling and weekend news anchor Bob Jordan from WGN Television for a lively discussion of weather-related events in Chicago.

new! trees as a legacy in Design and Development Presented by Bartlett Tree Experts and the Chicago Botanic Garden June 28 Thursday 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Alsdorf Auditorium $75 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Trees are integral to landscape design and help create an enduring sense of place. How can we ensure their legacy? Keynoted by renowned landscape architect Peter Walker, FASLA, co-designer of the National September 11 Memorial, this interdisciplinary symposium explores design successes, pests and the urban forest, the challenges of urban soils, trees as economic drivers and legacy trees in Chicago’s historic parks. Includes walking tours of the Chicago Botanic Garden, lunch, reception and Hot Summer Nights concert. Enjoy a day at the Garden!

new! turf education Day September 14 Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Alsdorf Auditorium $150 nonmember $115 Government rate (municipal, county, parks and recreation, and school districts) $95 members of ILCA, IPLCA, or Chicago Botanic Garden Please register at www.ilca.net The Illinois Landscape Contractors Association (ILCA), Illinois Professional Lawn Care Association (IPLCA), and the Chicago Botanic Garden come together to present this comprehensive seminar on lawn care education, products, and resources. Effective lawn care drives successful landscaping companies.

Whether landscapers or groundskeepers choose to subcontract these services, or provide them in-house, it is critical to profitability and customer satisfaction to stay informed about the latest lawn care practices and products. The content is geared toward landscape contractors, turf professionals, groundskeepers, sports turf professionals, and anyone who provides services related to lawn care. Space is limited.

Professional Programs Professional development opportunities and inspiration are yours here at the Garden. landscape design, horticulture, and conservation professionals and others are welcome to attend these outstanding programs.

Basic autoCaD for landscape Design July 9 – August 6 5 Mondays 7 – 9 p.m.

Design Studio Maelo Maldanado, ASLA, principal, Latitude Land Design, LLC $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This course will cover the basic tools, techniques, and use of the AutoCAD program to make the new and intermediate user comfortable with the most popular and highly technical program available. Exercises, lectures, and demonstrations will focus on immersing the student into the AutoCAD language. Students will gain confidence in using, learning, and applying the software. This basic course will help users comprehend all the basic commands and tricks to manage the most technical tool available to landscape designers.

lake and Pond shorelines: Controlling erosion and enhancing Habitat July 18 Wednesday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Bob Kirschner, curator of aquatic plant & urban lake studies, Chicago Botanic Garden and Heidi Natura, RLA, ALSA, LEED AP, founder and partner, Living Habitats $59 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This course is presented with support from the Garden’s Aquatic Plant & Urban Lake Studies Program and our partnering organizations.

OPC elective Does your shoreline support a diverse mix of native plants and animals—or is it an eyesore with algae mats, muddy water, and erosion? The Garden’s extensively restored lakeshores provide an ideal classroom to demonstrate techniques that stabilize shoreline soils, enhance water quality and aquatic habitat, and create beautiful vistas of aquatic plants.

Part of the class will be spent outdoors, including a behind-the-scenes tour of the Garden’s current project in the North Lake where more than 120,000 native shoreline plants are being added.

american society for Horticultural science Certified Horticulturist examination November 12 Monday 1 – 5 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Please visit the website at www.ashs.org for details on registration, fees, and application dates The American Society for Horticultural Science Certified Horticulturist Program is a national credential validating the knowledge and skills of working horticultural practitioners in the horticulture industry.

Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/school/faculty for faculty biographies.

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive a 20 percent discount on classes.

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Adult Education: Bonsai Workshops & Weekend Gardener Series

Bonsai Workshops all bonsai workshops are taught by Ivan Watters, bonsai artist and curator of the Chicago Botanic Garden bonsai collection. Workshops are held in the Production Headhouse.

Bonsai: Beginner – Basics and Fundamentals Session 1: July 8 – August 12 Session 2: August 26 – September 30 6 Sundays 1 – 4 p.m. $229 nonmember; members receive 20% discount During this six-week course, discover principles and techniques to appreciate and participate in the art of bonsai. Each session includes a detailed lecture and assistance with design, styling, and wiring.

Bonsai: novice – Development techniques Session 1: July 11 – August 15 Session 2: August 22 – October 3 (no class September 26) 6 Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. $269 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This workshop is ideal for those with considerable familiarity and experience with the fundamentals of bonsai. Each session in this six-week course includes a brief lecture, supervised work on trees, and a review and critique of work undertaken.

Bonsai: Intermediate – refinement techniques Session 1: July 7 – August 11 Session 2: August 25 – September 29 6 Saturdays 9 a.m. – noon $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This workshop is appropriate for those with knowledge of bonsai concepts and experience with the art beyond the novice level. Each session in this six-week course includes a brief lecture, supervised work on trees, and a review and critique of work undertaken.

Bonsai: advanced – Presentation-Quality efforts Session 1: July 8 – August 12 Session 2: August 26 – September 30 6 Sundays 9 a.m. – noon $319 nonmember; members receive 20% discount For the student who has completed the beginner, novice, and intermediate courses, this six-week course focuses almost exclusively on supervised work on trees.

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WeekenD GarDener serIes

Bonsai Basics

are you a new homeowner baffled by your landscape? are you a beginning gardener who wants to learn basic horticultural skills? this series answers gardening questions and introduces techniques for gardening success. each course investigates a different topic related to your own lawn and garden.

May 12 Saturday 1 – 3 p.m.

Design Studio Ivan Watters, bonsai artist and curator, Chicago Botanic Garden Bonsai Collection $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Get started with annuals April 29 Sunday 1 – 3 p.m.

Annex 2 Tim Pollak, outdoor floriculturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Annuals can be used in many ways to provide constant color in your flowerbeds, containers, window boxes, and perennial borders. Learn the most dependable varieties as well as the new and unusual.

Topics include soil preparation, plant selection, care and maintenance, and some propagation techniques.

Planting techniques May 5 Saturday 1 – 3 p.m.

Annex 1 Jessica Goehler, horticulturist $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Learn the horticulture of bonsai and the art and philosophy behind it. Discover what bonsai is and the history, fundamental aesthetic elements, and basic styles of this art. Ivan Watters will also touch on tools, wiring, soils, fertilizers, and year-round care. A tour of part of the bonsai collection is included.

Get started With roses May 19 Saturday 9 – 11 a.m.

Linnaeus Room Thomas Soulsby, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This is a great course for the first-time rose grower, or a refresher for the enthusiast. General planting, pruning, protection, and care will be discussed, along with examples of low-maintenance rose varieties suitable for the Chicagoland area. Dress for the weather, as part of the class will be a Garden walk and talk.

Proper planting entails much more than just putting a plant in the ground. Good techniques are vital for establishing a successful landscape. Learn how to do a site analysis, prepare the site, select plants, and use specific planting techniques for trees, shrubs, perennials, and ground covers. Please dress for the weather.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school/registration_policies for information on registration procedure and policy.

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Adult Education: Horticulture

summer Garden Maintenance

Fall lawn Care

June 10 Sunday 1 – 3 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Tim Johnson, director of horticulture, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

September 15 Saturday 10 a.m. – noon Seminar Room, Plant Science Center Tom Fritz, plant healthcare specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Proper watering, fertilizing, pruning, edging, deadheading, staking, and mulching practices can make the difference between a healthy, well-kept garden and a landscape that gets ahead of you. You will have a hands-on opportunity to practice what you learn, so bring along a pair of pruners, and dress for the weather.

If your lawn isn’t all you would like it to be, invest some time this fall so you can have a healthy and lush lawn next year. Learn the basics of lawn renovation and how to prepare your lawn for winter. Tom Fritz will discuss and demonstrate proper techniques for installing sod, seeding and overseeding, and aerating and fertilizing—all aimed at revitalizing your lawn.

Dress for the weather, as part of the class will be outdoors.

Mulches and Compost July 21 Saturday 1– 3 p.m.

Annex 2 Rachel Catlett, horticulturist $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Composting duplicates nature’s recycling process, turning leaves, grass clippings, yard trimmings, and kitchen scraps into dark, nutrient-rich humus. Learn how to select and set up a compost bin or pile, what materials can be composted, how to use compost, and techniques to ensure the best results. You will also learn about the types of mulches available and why mulching is vital for a healthy and vigorous garden.

Wild World of Weeds August 11 Saturday 10 a.m. – noon Linnaeus Room Thomas Soulsby, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Join us for an exploration of some of the most common weeds of the Midwest! You will learn the basics of weed identification, life cycles, and methods of control. In addition, Tom Soulsby will give you a close-up look at what has been discussed and help you practice identifying weeds.

Fall Garden Care September 9 Sunday 1 – 3 p.m.

Annex 2 Tim Johnson, director of horticulture, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Proper garden care in the fall helps ensure healthy plants the next spring. Learn techniques for taking care of your lawn, trees, shrubs, and perennials, including fall fertilizing, mulching, cutting back plants, and protecting plants from winter winds and animal damage. Pointers will be given for fall planting of woody plants and spring-flowering bulbs.

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Discover ornamental Grasses September 29 Saturday 10 a.m. – noon Garden View Room Heather Sherwood, senior horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Ornamental grasses have gained great favor due to their adaptability to many garden conditions, as well as their ornamental features. They bloom reliably in summer, adding unique texture to the garden; later, they provide winter interest. Learn how to add these attractive yet undemanding selections to your home landscape. Dress for a Garden walk.

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Horticulture Horticulture courses help students acquire the information and techniques needed to grow ornamental plants and maintain a healthy garden or lawn.

topiaries for Your Garden May 2 Wednesday 9:30 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Karen Thomson, topiary designer, Thomson Topiaries $74 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Whether you tuck them in your garden, decorate your countertop, or adorn your shelves with them, topiaries will add a touch of whimsy or elegance to your home and garden. You will create your own live topiary, selecting from a variety of frames. Bring scissors, rubber gloves, and an apron.

let’s Grow together!

Family Friendly May 19, July 28, and September 22 3 Saturdays 9 – 11:30 a.m.

Fruit & Vegetable Learning Center Rick Belding, director of the garden at Elawa Farm $124 nonmember; members receive 20% discount In this interactive class, students will design and plant two 32-square-foot raised gardens using sustainable practices. Each student will receive the same types of plants and/or seed to grow at home, so comparisons can be made with the raised garden planting in the Fruit & Vegetable Garden. Challenges and successes will be discussed along the way and the last session will include a cooking segment. Children over 6 are welcome to register with an attending registered adult.

One child free with each adult registration; each additional child registration is $49.

unusual and underused annuals

new! subtropical Gardening for Chicago

May 21 Monday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Thomas Soulsby, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $39 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

May 24 Thursday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Annex 2 Tim Pollak, outdoor floriculturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

June 13 Wednesday 1 – 3 p.m.

Linnaeus Room John Raffetto, horticulturist $39 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Have you seen a mulch volcano? How deep should you plant that tree? Are you using the proper tools? Designed for a less-experienced gardener, this class is an overview of common gardening problems and practices. You will learn to recognize problem gardening techniques and discover easy-to-understand tips and techniques. A portion of the class may be outside, so please dress accordingly.

Tired of the same old annuals? Join Tim Pollak, the grower of all of the Garden’s annual displays, for a discussion and colorful demonstration of many different and rare annuals that will thrive in midwestern gardens and containers. Learn about the proper cultural requirements and other secrets of success to make these plants a star in your garden.

Pollak will also explain how to overwinter some of these plants so you can enjoy them year after year.

Please dress for the weather.

Made-for-the-shade Container Workshop May 22 Tuesday 10 a.m. – noon or 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Annex 1 Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $112 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Need some color in the shade? Take a Garden walk to view shade-loving plants, and then create your own container designed with shade in mind. We will use a variety of plants, including perennials, annuals, and tropicals. Please bring garden gloves and a large box for the finished project. All other materials are provided.

The Midwestern Native Garden, Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants, An Illustrated Guide A Lecture and Book-Signing Event May 23 Wednesday 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Charlotte Adelman, author $5 Popular nonnative garden flowers and plants from Asia and Europe are compared to native midwestern counterparts that look exactly alike or resemble the nonnatives and have the same cultivation requirements. The presentation identifies native Midwest flowers and plants, called host plants, that are required by local butterflies for successful reproduction. We’ll also discuss how to determine if a plant is native or nonnative, if a nonnative plant is naturalized or invasive, if a native plant is endangered or extinct, and how to locate commercial sources for midwestern plants. This program is presented through a partnership with The Book Stall in Winnetka, IL.

Perennial Garden Care and Maintenance June 5 Tuesday 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Annex 2 Rachel Catlett, horticulturist $62 nonmember; members receive 20% discount In this hands-on workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of good gardening techniques. Included will be organic and practical methods used to keep a perennial garden in peak condition. Learn how and when to deadhead, pinch back, stake, weed, fertilize, mulch and water, and to recognize and minimize some common pests and diseases. Dress for the weather, as part of the class may be outdoors.

Vegetable and Herb Basket Workshop June 7 Thursday 1 – 3 p.m.

Annex 2 Beth Pinargote and Jill Selinger, adult education, Chicago Botanic Garden $79 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Vegetables and herbs grow beautifully together in a large moss-lined basket. Using smaller, containerfriendly varieties of warm season vegetables including a tomato, pepper, and herbs of rosemary, basil, and thyme, you will create an incredible edible basket. We will take a walk to the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden to view the hanging baskets on the island; then you will plant your own garden in a moss-lined basket. Please dress for the weather.

Adult Education: Horticulture

new! solving Common landscaping Problems

The use of palms, bananas, and bamboos, along with other companion plantings, can add a colorful element to a Chicago garden. There are specific plants that can overwinter along with others that can be held indoors until conditions are ready for planting. Learn what these plants are and design factors to consider when planning a subtropical garden.

summer Containers at the Garden June 20 Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. or June 21 Thursday 10 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $87 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Enjoy a tour featuring the summer containers at the Garden. Then prepare a warm-season mixed container suitable for a sun or partial-shade location. Your container may include annuals, perennials, herbs, and decorative foliage. Please bring gloves.

evergreen Pruning Two-session program June 21 Thursday 7 – 8:30 p.m. and June 23 Saturday 9 – 11 a.m.

Annex 2 Gilbert Smith and Lesley Bruce Smith, ISA certified arborists, owners, Arborsmith, Ltd. $62 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Discover how to trim your evergreens to extend life, enhance their natural beauty, and prolong health and function. Learn the basics of tree physiology and how trees are affected by trimming. Through demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on experience, learn the advantages of natural rejuvenation of your evergreens for optimal plant life, appearance, and performance.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school/registration_policies for information on registration procedure and policy.

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Gardener Meets Grill June 23 Saturday 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Fruit & Vegetable Learning Center Greg Moroz, horticulturist $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Kick your vegetable garden up a notch this summer.

In this class, you’ll learn how to create raised beds and containers for a truly productive edible garden and discover easy recipes for using your produce on the grill. An experienced gardener and avid cook, Greg Moroz grows more than 70 varieties of peppers, including specialty hot peppers from Africa, Thailand, and the Caribbean. He also grows tomatoes, beans, herbs, and other edibles in his Chicago backyard.

You’ll learn how to start vegetable seeds indoors, what potting mixes work well for container gardening, when to fertilize and harvest, and how to overwinter those choice pepper plants for a super harvest each year.

new! Back to Basics: Canning, Freezing and Drying tomatoes August 28 Tuesday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Fruit & Vegetable Garden Kitchen Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $89 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Learn the basics of how to can, freeze, and dry your tomatoes. You will learn selection, preparation, and tools needed for each method. Then you will prepare your own batch of tomatoes for canning. We will also discuss how to use your tomatoes with sauces.

You will take home a pint of canned tomatoes you prepared in class. Wear comfortable clothes, close-toed shoes, and please bring the following to class: a cutting board, paring knife, kitchen mitt, two kitchen towels, two medium-sized bowls, and a small box to carry the finished product home, apron optional.

Bucktown Fiesta in rick Bayless’s Garden and restaurant

new! earth’s Bounty: organic Farm and lunch experience

August 1 Wednesday 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center Rick Bayless, celebrity chef, and Bill Shores, professional gardener $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

August 30 Thursday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Meet at Loyola University Ecological Center in Woodstock, IL Alex Tuchman, Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus, and David Woodruff, W & M Land Corp $79 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Register soon, as this is expected to fill. Rick Bayless, chef and host of the PBS television show Mexico—One Plate at a Time, will open the family’s organic kitchen garden for a tour given by his professional gardener, Bill Shores. This 800-square-foot production garden not only supplies fresh herbs and vegetables to their restaurants but also serves to trial new plant varieties. Afterward, add some spice to the day by dining in Frontera Grill’s private party room. Lunch will be a deliciously comprehensive spread of Mexican food created with gourmet herbs and organic vegetables, including appetizers, entrees, and desserts. Transportation is provided.

We’ll tour the organic farm at Loyola University’s Retreat and Ecology Campus, then we’ll harvest some fresh, in-season produce that will be taken to resident chef Scott Commings. We’ll use that produce in a cooking class demonstration where you’ll create your lunch. We’ll also include a tomato tasting of several organic heirloom tomatoes from both farms. After lunch, we’re off to W&M Land Corp farm in Woodstock where you’ll learn about crop rotation and see the pink baby ginger being grown in high tunnels. Transportation is on your own, and a map will be sent prior to the class.

new! Back to Basics: Jelly and Jam September 25 Tuesday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Fruit & Vegetable Garden Kitchen Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $89 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Learn how to make jelly and jam the old-fashioned way! Fruit selection, equipment, and methods will be discussed, and then the fun begins. You will start from the beginning and make your own jelly and jam.

It’s not as hard as you think. There are various recipes and methods, but we will use the water bath method to make a seasonal jelly and jam to take home. Wear comfortable clothes, close-toed shoes, and please bring the following to class: a cutting board, paring knife, kitchen mitt, two kitchen towels, two medium-sized bowls, and a small box to carry the finished product home, apron optional.

autumn Containers at the Garden September 12 Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. or September 13 Thursday 10 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $87 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Take a Garden walk to view the Garden’s fall containers. Then create a cool-season mixed container with a variety of plants suitable for a full-sun or partial-shade location. Your container may include annuals, perennials, herbs, decorative foliage, cool-season vegetables, ornamental grasses, a decorative vine, and gourds. Please bring gloves.

new! Backstage Pass: secrets of the Garden Wall September 15 Saturday 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Meet at the Visitor Center Dave Cantwell, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $39 nonmember; members receive 20% discount What’s green and red and zips by in a flash? No, not Christmas, but driving past the Edens Berm Wall in expressway traffic. There is so much to see out there that is missed—horticulturally speaking. Now you have the opportunity to tour this highly visible yet virtually inaccessible jewel in the crown of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Did you know that this wall is more than a mile long? Join us and discover the secret gardens along the Garden Wall. Register early–space is limited.

Organic production beds are planted at Rick Bayless’s home garden in Bucktown.

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Call (847) 835-8261 or visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school to register.

December 5 Wednesday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. or December 6 Thursday 10 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $87 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Explore the winter containers at the Garden and learn ways to extend your own containers into the winter season. Then prepare a container with fresh-cut evergreen boughs and berried or brightly colored branches. Please bring gloves and pruners.

HanDs-on GarDenInG serIes

Learn to garden with confidence! This series will enable you to gain hands-on experience carrying out different home-gardening projects. Please dress for the weather and plan on getting dirty, as most of these classes will be spent outside, rain or shine.

Register for all three courses at once, and receive a 10 percent discount. $166 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Divide and Conquer Your Perennials June 9 Saturday 10 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Dave Cantwell, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $62 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Learn when, how, and where to divide these anchors of the garden to ensure their continued health, beauty, and performance.

summer Pruning: Mid-course Corrections July 7 Saturday 10 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Dave Cantwell, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $62 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Today’s pruning of your trees and shrubs will define how they grow for years to come. Learn which cuts to avoid, which cuts are essential, and which cuts are a matter of your personal style.

HortICulture CertIFICate oF MerIt ProGraMs Certificate Graduation If you will be completing your certificate program, you must register with the continuing education office to be considered for the 2012 Autumn Certificate Programs Graduation. Graduation will be held Friday, November 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Linnaeus Room.

Please register at www.chicagobotanic.org/school/ certificate/graduation no later than October 12.

lilacs May 5 Saturday 1 – 4 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Mark Zampardo, Ph.D., horticulture educator $74 nonmember; members receive 20% discount OPC elective Learn more about the genus Syringa. The species ranges from small shrubs to medium-sized trees. The beautiful flowers are generally fragrant and plants are hardy and easy to grow. Lilacs are tolerant of a wide range of soil types including alkaline soils. A walk around the Garden to view lilacs in bloom is included.

The School’s CEUs=0.3

Botany 2 Spring Session May 7 – June 20 (no class May 28 & 30) 6 Mondays & 6 Wednesdays 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. or 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Richard D. Hyerczyk, botanist $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount PGL 2 and GDC requirement How do seeds germinate and develop into mature plants? How do plants move water up through their roots to their topmost branches? This course will explore subjects such as the plant cell, anatomy and growth of roots, stems, and leaves, photosynthesis, and the symbiotic association of plant roots with beneficial fungi and bacteria. Prerequisite: Botany 1.

small Flowering trees

Adult Education: Horticulture

Winter Containers at the Garden

May 29 – July 10 7 Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Garden Walks (select one) May 31 – July 5 6 Thursdays 9 – 11 a.m. or June 2 – July 7 6 Saturdays 9 – 11 a.m.

Alsdorf Auditorium Mark Zampardo, Ph.D., horticulture educator $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Optional Study CD $20 OPC, PGL 1, PGL 2, GDC requirement Small flowering trees are a critical component of nearly every garden and landscape. Identification, cultural information, aesthetic qualities, and landscape uses will be emphasized. After completing this course, you will be able to select appropriate trees to add interest and depth to your garden and landscape projects.

Growing Fruit trees and Berries May 29 – June 26 5 Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. and June 2 (off-site), 9, & 23 3 Saturdays 9 a.m. – noon Fruit & Vegetable Learning Center Richard Belding, director of the Garden at Elawa Farm $224 nonmember; members receive 20% discount MGC requirement Discover new as well as traditional fruit trees and berries suited for the Midwest. Learn techniques and tips to produce a bountiful harvest, whether your garden is large or small. Lectures and hands-on activities will emphasize choice of varieties, site selection, soil preparation, planting, and much more.

Explore ways to integrate the beauty of fruit trees and berries into any garden area.

Mulching and edging August 4 Saturday 10 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Dave Cantwell, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $62 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Improper mulching can do far more harm to plants than not mulching at all. Learn how much mulch is enough, where to spread it, and the best material to use, as well as how to edge your garden for a professional look.

Learn which berries grow best in the Chicago area in Growing Fruit Trees and Berries.

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Adult Education: Horticulture Botanical Arts & Humanities

new! eight Months of Color for the Garden

Ground Covers and Vines

Introduction to Grasses

June 16 Saturday 9 a.m. – noon Linnaeus Room Janet Macunovich, garden designer and writer $74 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

July 17 – August 28 7 Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

August 13 – 20 2 Mondays 6:30 – 9 p.m. and August 25 (off-site) Saturday 9 a.m. – noon Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Richard D. Hyerczyk, botanist $124 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

OPC elective A calendar that shows week-by-week peak bloom of perennials, shrubs, vines, and trees may seem to be all a designer needs to assemble a winning group of plants. Use practical tips and learn to let each month’s signature flower cue you to do what’s best for that time toward maximum color. Garden at peak performance all year, from evaluating the size of beds and plant groups in March to routinely taking some plants “off exhibit” each October. The School’s CEUs=0.3

new! Designing with native Plants June 16 Saturday 1 – 4 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Janet Macunovich, garden designer and writer $74 nonmember; members receive 20% discount OPC elective What’s so great about using native plants, and what can you expect if you set out to design and plant with native trees, shrubs, and perennials? Many people are surprised to learn how many plants already in our gardens are native and are overwhelmed at how many more there are that can add beauty. Join Janet Macunovich to develop a native palette that brings beauty to any landscape. The School’s CEUs=0.3

Garden Walks (select one) July 19 – August 23 6 Thursdays 9 – 11 a.m. or July 21 – August 25 6 Saturdays 9 – 11 a.m.

Alsdorf Auditorium William Moss, horticulture educator $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Optional Study CD $20 OPC, PGL 1, PGL 2, GDC requirement Learn more about the fascinating world of climbers, trailers, and spreaders. This course will focus on identification techniques, ornamental qualities, and cultural traits of nearly 60 ground covers and vines.

Prerequisite: Botany 1.

CertIFICate ProGraMs InForMatIon sessIon FREE Information Session August 22 Wednesday 7 – 8 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Curious about our certificate programs? Want to learn how our programs can help you fulfill a dream, start a new career, or simply enjoy a new interest? Bring your questions to this FREE session. Please register in advance to save your space.

Gardening techniques: session D July 14 – August 18 6 Saturdays 7:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Annex 2 Lynette Rodriguez, owner and horticulturist, A Finer Touch $312 nonmember; members receive 20% discount PGL 1, PGL 2, GDC requirement Discover professional gardening through a combination of lecture and hands-on learning activities. Focus on acquiring solid gardening skills, learn about a variety of techniques, and develop the ability to determine best practices. Maintenance of annual plantings, watering, and fertilization techniques will be covered.

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OPC elective From rice and corn to our good ol’ lawn, whether we eat them, or mow them, grasses are all around us.

They were a major component of our native woodlands and prairies. Taxonomy, morphology, and ecology of grasses, with an emphasis on identification of the local species, will be featured. The School’s CEUs=0.8

Plant taxonomy for the Gardener September 8 Saturday 9 a.m. – noon Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Boyce Tankersley, director, living plant documentation $74 nonmember; members receive 20% discount OPC elective Confused by the binomial names of plants? Why have the names of some popular plants changed?

Botanical nomenclature can add a new dimension to your gardening by helping you identify and know plants better. Review rules of nomenclature and learn about the history of the binomial system in use today.

The School’s CEUs=0.3

soil Basics Intensive Autumn Session

Plant Health 2 July 24 – August 30 6 Tuesdays & 6 Thursdays 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Tom Tiddens, plant healthcare supervisor and certified arborist, Chicago Botanic Garden, and Kathie Hayden, manager, plant information service, Chicago Botanic Garden $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount PGL 2, GDC requirement Plant Health 2 will build upon Plant Health 1. In conjunction with lectures, time will be spent in the landscape, participating in garden monitoring, insect and disease identification and control, soil testing, fertilization, animal management, and assessing cultural and abiotic influences. Students will design a basic plant healthcare program and learn the Illinois requirements for pesticide usage. Prerequisites: Botany 1, Plant Health 1, and Botany 2.

Call (847) 835-8261 or visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school to register.

September 8, 22, & 29 3 Saturdays (no class September 15) 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Annex 2 Ellen Phillips, educator, University of Illinois Extension $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount MGC, PGL 1, PGL 2, GDC requirement Soil is an irreplaceable natural resource that affects plant selection and growth. Learn to maintain healthy soil; use compost, fertilizers, soilless and potting mixes, and other amendments. Discover how water cycles through a garden and affects soils and plants.

Begin to appreciate the circle of life within our soils.

Botanical Arts & Humanities Adult Education: Nature Studies

Nature Studies the Chicago region contains a wide range of plants and animals living in different types of natural communities, from woodlands to wetlands, from prairies to savannas.

new! spring Wildflowers for Your Garden

Discover the enormous variety of ferns in Ferns for the Chicago Region.

Botany 1

Ferns for the Chicago region

Autumn Session

September 15 Saturday 9 a.m. – noon Linnaeus Room Ed Lyon, director, Allen Centennial Gardens, University of Wisconsin-Madison $74 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

September 10 – October 24 (no class sessions September 17 & 26) 6 Mondays & 6 Wednesdays 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. or 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Richard D. Hyerczyk, botanist $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount OPC, MGC, PGL 1, PGL 2 and GDC requirement Why, botanically speaking, is a tomato a fruit? What is the difference between a fern and a moss? Come join us in Botany 1 to learn the answers to these questions and more! In this course we will explore subjects such as plant taxonomy and classification and the life cycles, distinguishing features, diversity, and identification of major groups of plants.

Deciduous trees September 11 – October 30 (no class September 25) 7 Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Garden Walks (select one) September 13 – October 25 (no class September 27) 6 Thursdays 9 – 11 a.m. or September 15 – October 27 (no class September 29) 6 Saturdays 9 – 11 a.m.

Mark Zampardo, Ph.D., horticulture educator Alsdorf Auditorium $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Optional Study CD $20 OPC, PGL 1, PGL 2, and GDC requirement Learn to identify more than 50 large deciduous trees, gain a greater understanding of the multitude of functions they serve in gardens and the landscape, and discover the wonders they offer year-round.

Develop your ability to identify trees using their buds, bark, and habit, in addition to leaf shape and other characteristics. Prerequisite: Botany 1.

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OPC elective One of the most elegant and useful plants in the outdoor landscape is the fern. Most gardeners don’t realize that there are many hardy species and an enormous variety of garden cultivars in a myriad of sizes, forms, and textures. Join us to expand your impressions of ferns in your garden design! The School’s CEUs=0.3

ornamental Grasses September 15 Saturday 1 – 4 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Ed Lyon, director, Allen Centennial Gardens, University of Wisconsin-Madison $74 nonmember; members receive 20% discount OPC elective

May 6 Sunday 1 – 3 p.m.

Annex 2 Jacob Burns, horticulturist, Chicago Botanic Garden $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount In spring, colorful flowers and fresh new foliage sprout from the forest floor and provide a welcome sign that winter is over. With a few trees in your yard, you can create this wonderful event in your garden. This course will highlight spring woodland wildflowers of Illinois and teach which ones perform best under home cultivation. A Garden walk will be included, so please dress for the weather.

Warbler Fever: learning Warblers by sight and sound May 10 Thursday 5 – 7 p.m.

Brushwood House, Ryerson Woods, Deerfield, IL Sheryl DeVore, author, Birds of Illinois, and chief editor, Meadowlark, journal of the Illinois Ornithological Society $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount All those colorful little migratory warblers that light up the trees like ornaments in spring can seem difficult to recognize. In this class, you will learn to identify warblers through their song, plumage, and habitat.

Get briefed on these birds’ vocalizations before heading into the woods to listen and watch. Warblers can often be just as active toward the end of the day as they are in the beginning. Bring a pair of binoculars and dress for the weather.

A map will be sent.

It is no longer news that ornamental grasses provide stunning visual interest to four-season gardens and commercial landscapes. Grasses can provide architectural interest with shapes and forms other plants can’t provide. There are outstanding selections for both sun and shade conditions as well as for every soil. The School’s CEUs=0.3

Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/school/faculty for faculty biographies.

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive a 20 percent discount on classes.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school/registration_policies for information on registration procedure and policy.

Join Jim Steffen for a special walk and talk in several of the splendid natural areas of the Garden.

Register for both walks at once and receive a 10 percent discount. Register early as class size is limited. $34 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

new! Barbara Brown nature reserve and Dixon Prairie Bird Walk May 19 Saturday 8 – 9:30 a.m.

Meet at Barbara Brown Nature Reserve Entrance Jim Steffen, ecologist, Chicago Botanic Garden $19 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Take this opportunity to search for birds at the new six-acre Barbara Brown Nature Reserve at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The Reserve allows ample opportunities to view waterfowl, wading birds, and upland songbirds from the comfort of a pedestrian path. While learning about birds, you will also to learn about the restoration of the reserve. The walk will also include an excursion into the Dixon Prairie to view more waterfowl and migrating grassland birds.

A map will be sent.

Woodland Wildflower Walk May 19 Saturday 1 – 2:30 p.m.

Meet at McDonald Woods Entrance Shelter Jim Steffen, ecologist, Chicago Botanic Garden $19 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Take some time from your busy schedule for a walk in the woods. Welcome the delightful diversity of early spring wildflowers on a field trip in the Mary Mix McDonald Woods. Dress for the weather and wear suitable shoes for hiking. Bring along a field guide, if you have one.

Introduction to rain Gardens May 16 Wednesday 9:30 – 11 a.m.

Seminar Room, Plant Science Center Bob Kirschner, curator of aquatic plant and urban lake studies, Chicago Botanic Garden $24 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

new! local Plant ecology

Father’s Day Canoe adventure

May 24 – June 21 5 Thursdays 10 a.m. – noon Seminar Room, Plant Science Center John Raffetto, horticulturist $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

June 16 Saturday 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m., or 3 p.m. or June 17 Sunday 9 a.m., 11 a.m., or 1 p.m. $54 per person, members receive 20% discount Children must be at least 5 years old to participate Maximum three participants per boat Additional details upon registration

Join John Raffetto for an overview of natural ecosystems in the Chicago Region, including prairies, savannas, wetlands, and forests. Environmental factors explaining why these ecosystems formed will be covered along with recent attempts to restore them. Three sessions will be held off-site.

Bird Walk: summer nesting Birds June 9 Saturday 7:30 – 9 a.m.

Meet at Visitor Center Alan Anderson, board member, Chicago Audubon Society $19 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Join us as we look for and study the nesting birds of the Garden. We’ll spend time learning to identify the nesting birds’ territorial songs, and look for evidence of nesting. Learn how to perform a nesting bird survey, and discover the wide variety of birds nesting in the Chicago area.

new! Backstage Pass: shoreline restoration Project June 14 Thursday 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Linnaeus Room Bob Kirschner, curator of aquatic plant & urban lake studies, Chicago Botanic Garden $39 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Are you wondering why the Garden’s North Lake is drained, or what all the construction equipment is doing down in the bottom of the lake? Join this walking tour for a behind-the-scenes look at our much-publicized North Lake Shoreline Restoration Project. See how stone, fabric, geonet—and most especially, 120,000 native plants—are being used to transform 1¼ miles of eroding lakeshore into a landscape that’s easy on the eye and rich in diversity.

Adult Education: Nature Studies

nature Walks WItH GarDen eColoGIst JIM steFFen

How’s this for a unique way to spend part of Father’s Day? In partnership with Friends of the Chicago River, the Garden invites you to participate in a rare opportunity to canoe the lakes of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Bob Kirschner, the Garden’s aquatic biologist, will paddle along and explain our nationally recognized program to restore and enhance the Garden’s miles of lakeshore. Herons, ducks, small fish, and maybe even a few turtles and frogs will greet you as we explore their watery habitat. No experience with canoeing is necessary; instruction, canoes, life jackets, and paddles are all provided. Please choose one of the start times that are scheduled. You’ll enjoy a full hour canoeing the lakes of Chicago Botanic Garden. Be sure to register early, as this event always sells out!

new! Discover the Indiana Dunes June 27 Wednesday 1 – 3 p.m.

Linnaeus Room John Raffetto, horticulturist $39 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Beginning 15,000 years ago, thanks to the work of glaciers, wind, and water, the Indiana Dunes were formed. This National Lakeshore has one of the most diverse ecosystems in the National Park System. The flora and fauna of the dunes cover a wide spectrum of species and offer the Chicago area a rich treasure to experience. This class will provide an introduction of the natural and current history of the dunes and will prepare people to enjoy a visit and offer trails to explore.

Find the beautiful birds nesting at the Garden in the June 9 Bird Walk.

Surrounding the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center is the Rainwater Glen, designed to enhance the water quality of rainfall runoff from the parking area. The Glen includes tens of thousands of native plants that are especially tolerant of occasional inundation, arranged in a way that affords both landscape beauty as well as environmental function. Learn how rain gardens can be incorporated into your own residential landscape.

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Family Friendly July 10 Tuesday 1 – 2:30 p.m.

Burnstein Hall Linda Breuer, director, Barnswallow, A Wild Bird Concern $24 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Join us for a fascinating firsthand experience with some of nature’s finest creatures. Linda will bring a number of live owls, hawks, and others, plus a surprise guest. This is a perfect opportunity to see and learn about these fascinating creatures up close.

One child free with every adult registration, additional child registration is $5.

Fall Bird Walk August 25 Saturday 7:30 – 9 a.m.

Meet at Visitor Center Alan Anderson, research committee chairman, Chicago Audubon Society $19 each walk nonmember; members receive 20% discount Take a walk in the Garden and learn to identify birds in their sometimes-confusing fall plumage. The walk will highlight warblers, vireos, and flycatchers. Dress for the weather and bring binoculars and a field guide if you have them.

Garden Design With a variety of courses ranging from site analysis and construction to garden art and history, students learn the principles of garden design and how design relates to the environment.

A Rich Spot of Earth: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello May 17 Thursday 1:30 – 3 p.m.

Alsdorf Auditorium Peter Hatch, author and director of gardens and grounds at Monticello $24 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving.

Extensively and painstakingly restored under Peter Hatch’s direction, Jefferson’s unique vegetable garden now boasts the same medley of plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the early nineteenth century. The author explores topics ranging from labor in the garden, garden pests of the time, and seed saving practices, to contemporary African-American gardens.

the american kitchen Garden May 23 Wednesday 1 – 3 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Nina Koziol, garden writer $37 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

new! natural Vistas: Chicago’s Heirloom landscapes

Adult Education: Garden Design

raptors in Your Backyard

A Special Program June 19 Tuesday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Fairchild Room Robert E. Grese, Darrel Morrison, and Christopher Vernon $25 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Hear the story of Chicago’s rich landscape legacy— including the work of the legendary designer Jens Jensen—in a special event featuring the world premiere of Designing in the Prairie Spirit, a film by Hott Productions of Florentine Films. The evening will begin with landscape historian Christopher Vernon and landscape architect Robert Grese reflecting on their research for two new books from Library of American Landscape History, Graceland Cemetery: A Design History and The Native Landscape Reader.

A highlight of our discussion will be Graceland Cemetery, regarded as one of the most influential landscapes in the Midwest. The evening will conclude with Darrel Morrison hosting a showing of the new documentary film, which explores the impact of the prairie spirit on his own work. This event is partially underwritten by the Library of American Landscape History and forms a part of the sesquicentennial celebration of the founding of Graceland Cemetery. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Long relegated to a sunny corner of the backyard, the kitchen garden is taking its rightful spot as a focal point in the home landscape. This class looks at how to create a plot that produces eye-catching, tasty edibles, including heirloom vegetables, salad greens, and herbs for making your own herbal teas.

See some remarkable creatures up close in Raptors in Your Backyard.

Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/school/faculty for faculty biographies.

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive a 20 percent discount on classes.

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Adult Education: Garden Botanical Design Arts & Humanities

Healthcare Garden Design Certificate Program Eight-day professional development certificate May 9 – 16 Wednesday - Wednesday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., schedule will vary Linnaeus Room $3,495 This eight-day program includes case studies, group projects, field trips, lectures, and instruction from experts in healthcare garden-related professions.

Working in multidisciplinary teams that reflect the real world of healthcare garden design, students will also tour healthcare facilities in greater Chicago to reinforce what they have learned.

Healing through nature: Healthcare Gardens for Veterans and Children with sensory Processing and spectrum Disorders Healthcare Garden Design Seminar Program Learn to add exquisite night touches to your garden in The Garden After Dark.

new! Innovative Inspirations from american Gardens September 14 Friday 7 – 9 p.m.

Alsdorf Auditorium Ed Lyon, director, Allen Centennial Gardens, University of Wisconsin - Madison $39 nonmember; members receive 20% discount How many times have you walked into someone’s garden and marveled over the creative use of plants and thought, “I wish I had thought of that!”

Experienced gardeners will tell you that many of their innovative ideas come from others. Ed Lyon has been fascinated with the ingenious innovations in landscape design in gardens that he’s photographed. Both design and plant-based ideas will be shown from around the country, in gardens both public and private. Let the creativity of others inspire you!

new! the Garden after Dark Walk and Talk September 28 Friday 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Garden View Room Julie Siegel, principal, J. Siegel Designs, Inc. $39 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Want to interact with your garden 24/7? Are you up before dawn? Returning home after sunset? Hosting an evening event? Join us as we explore the Garden after dark. We will tour some of the special spaces that assume a nighttime identity and provide an expanded garden experience that enhances our senses. Then we will highlight ways you can successfully re-create these types of spaces and experiences in your own garden.

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GarDen DesIGn CertIFICate oF MerIt ProGraMs Certificate Graduation If you will be completing your certificate program, you must register with the continuing education office to be considered for the 2012 Autumn Certificate Programs Graduation. Graduation will be held Friday, November 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Linnaeus Room.

Please register at www.chicagobotanic.org/school/ certificate/graduation no later than October 12

Gardens that Heal: a Prescription for Wellness One-day Seminar May 9 Wednesday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Alsdorf Auditorium $149 Often referred to as therapeutic landscapes, healthcare gardens have been proven to possess restorative powers. In a healthcare environment, gardens provide a sense of order, safety, and privacy for those coping with illness. During this seminar, industry leaders will present the latest research demonstrating the benefits of healthcare gardens, while providing an introduction to the knowledge and tools needed to effectively design, manage, and evaluate such gardens.

Call (847) 835-8261 or visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school to register.

July 20 – 22 Friday, Saturday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. – noon Alsdorf Auditorium Early-bird fee postmarked by June 18: $399 Fee after June 18: $479 This seminar offers a broad approach for discussion on how healing gardens and therapeutic spaces can be instrumental in recovery, treatment, and stress reduction for special populations. The program will draw on the expertise of medical professionals, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the complexities of diagnosis and treatment. These sessions will be combined with case studies led by landscape architects currently working to implement healing spaces, along with discussions about design features and guidelines for therapeutic gardens that serve these special populations.

Hardscape Basics May 17 – July 26 (no session June 14 & July 5) 9 Thursdays 6:30 – 9 p.m. and June 16 & 30 2 Saturdays 9 a.m. – noon Design Studio Shawn Weidner, ASLA, landscape architect, EcoGardens $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount PGL 2, GDC requirement Apply knowledge and skills toward a working understanding of hardscape elements as they relate to garden design. Weekly discussions and individual projects will focus on basic elements of hardscape structures, including paving, landscape lighting, garden walls and structures, and site furnishings and their application to the residential landscapes.

Prerequisites: Graphics, Introduction to Professional Practice, Principles of Garden Design.

Adult Education: Garden Botanical Design Arts & Humanities

Learn landscape design illustration with an expert in Graphics.

Certificate Programs Information session FREE Information Session August 22 Wednesday 7 – 8 p.m.

Linnaeus Room

Curious about our certificate programs? Want to learn how our programs can help you fulfill a dream, start a new career, or simply enjoy a new interest? Bring your questions to this FREE session. Please register in advance to save your space.

Basic landscape Principles September 11 – October 23 6 Tuesdays (no class September 25) 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Paul Laiblin, project manager and senior estimator, Scott Byron and Co. $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount MGC requirement

Modern Garden History June 11 – August 13 10 Mondays 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Linnaeus Room Barbara Geiger, MALA, landscape historian and adjunct professor, Illinois Institute of Technology $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount GDC requirement This course is a continuation of Early Garden History, and focuses on garden design from the early 1900s to the present. Become familiar with 20th century developments and learn what trends are important to contemporary designers now.

Introduction to Grading and Drainage June 27 – August 29 8 Wednesdays 6:30 – 9 p.m. and July 21 & 28 (Linnaeus Room) 2 Saturdays 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Design Studio Jodi Mariano, RLA, senior associate, Teska Associates, Inc. $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount PGL 2 and GDC requirement Apply knowledge and skills toward a working understanding of basic grading and drainage concepts as they relate to design. Discussions and projects will include basic earth forms and drainage patterns in residential landscapes. Prerequisites: Graphics, Introduction to Professional, Principles of Garden Design.

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Improve your own garden’s look, feel, and function.

We will discuss and demonstrate scale, balance, symmetry, circulation and views, and plant design.

This hands-on approach to landscape design will enable you to create spaces and garden beds within a home environment.

Planting Design September 12 – November 14 (no class September 26) 9 Wednesdays 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Design Studio and October 13 and November 3 2 Saturdays 9 a.m. – noon Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Shawn Weidner, ASLA, landscape architect $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount GDC requirement Apply knowledge and skills developed in previous design courses toward a working understanding of planting design. Weekly discussions and individual projects will focus on basic elements of planting design, including an understanding of color and texture, plant combinations, planting bed layout, installation techniques, and maintenance practices.

Prerequisites: 4 OPC core courses, Graphics, Introduction to Professional Practice, Principles of Garden Design, Hardscape Basics.

Call (847) 835-8261 or visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school to register.

Graphics Autumn Session September 13 – November 15 10 Thursdays 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Design Studio R. Thomas Selinger, landscape architect, Martin and Associates $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount PGL 2 and GDC requirement Come learn the basic principles of landscape design illustration. This balanced and rewarding class provides an exciting introduction to the three basic areas of drawing communication: plans, elevations, and perspectives. Discover how to express your ideas using effective and enriched presentation techniques.

Professional time-saving shortcuts, the importance of lettering, and the excitement of color are included.

Recommended to take concurrently with Introduction to Professional Practice.

Introduction to Professional Practice Autumn session September 19 – November 28 (no class September 26 & November 21) 9 Wednesdays 6:30 – 9 p.m.

Linnaeus Room and September 22 (Annex 1), 29, November 10 & 17 4 Saturdays 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Sean M. Kelley, BLA, head designer and project manager, Chicago Specialty Gardens $337 nonmember; members receive 20% discount PGL 2 and GDC requirement Apply skills learned in Graphics toward a working understanding of the initial phases of a landscape design project. Lectures will focus on the preliminary steps necessary to begin a landscape design project and carry the project through the conceptual design phase; including site measurements, base maps, site analysis, programming, functional use diagrams, conceptual design plans and preliminary cost estimates. Prerequisite: Graphics (courses may be taken concurrently).

throughout history, plants and images of plants have been woven into the arts—painting, literature, and photography. the beauty of botanical arts courses is that they encompass a wide variety of topics, from photography to calligraphy, botanical illustration to paper making. In introductory and higher-level courses, students have the opportunity to express their creative flair while sharing time with others in an enjoyable setting.

Japanese Ink Painting May 2 – June 6 6 Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Annex 2 Kay Thomas, artist $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Sumi-e, the ancient art of Japanese ink painting, requires no previous painting experience. Individualized instruction will be provided for students of all levels. Beginners will learn to use Oriental painting equipment to paint classic nature subjects. A supply list will be sent.

Flower arranging with store-Bought Bouquets May 8 Tuesday 10 a.m. – noon or 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Burnstein Hall Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $62 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Make your own professional-style arrangements using economical store-bought bouquets. You will learn how to select materials, sort by design elements, and create arrangements. Using simple design principles and fresh flowers from European-style displays in your grocery store, you will create beautiful results. Please bring pruners and a small box for your finished arrangement. All other materials are included in the fee.

Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/school/faculty for faculty biographies.

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive a 20 percent discount on classes.

new! Drawing the Garden in Pen and Ink May 11 – June 15 6 Fridays 1 – 4 p.m.

Design Studio Derek Norman, artist and director, Midwest Center for Botanical Documentation $312 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Delight in sketching and drawing the Garden in pen and ink. Students of all abilities will find inspiration in capturing and defining the many colors, shapes, forms, textures, and garden structures with the point of a pen. Learn the basics and the finer points of pen and ink drawing technique. Ongoing demonstrations and individual instruction will be given to all students. A supply list will be sent.

new! Garden sculpture stone Carving Workshop

Preserving Your Family archives: Getting started May 19 Saturday 1 – 3:30 p.m.

Design Studio James Twomey, book and paper conservator in private practice, and adjunct faculty member, Dominican University’s School of Library Science $199 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Join us for this hands-on practical workshop and learn how to care for and preserve your family treasures and historic documents using the same techniques utilized by professional book and paper conservators.

Students will organize and transfer their own family archives using envelopes, sleeves, and mounting sheets and then place these into special binders for safe storage and easy access. Fee includes page protectors, archival storage boxes, folders, envelopes, photo album, and slipcase.

For the beginning stone carver May 15 – 18 Tuesday – Friday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Children’s Outdoor Classroom Arliss Stebbins, stone carver $440 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Using a block of silverdale limestone as the medium, the beginning carver will learn how to create a basic garden sculpture from start to finish. Transfer your own design to the stone in an encouraging environment. Students will be exposed to different rough-in tools and carving methods as well as some of the various stone types to consider when carving your next project. Techniques covered include getting started, polishing, finishing, and protecting your sculpture. Mounting options will also be discussed.

Class fee includes the stone. Students are asked to bring their own carving tools. A supply list will be sent.

Tap into your creativity during the Garden Sculpture Stone Carving Workshop.

Adult Education: Botanical Arts & Humanities

Botanical Arts and Humanities

Adult Education: Botanical Arts & Humanities

kurtIs ConserVatIon FounDatIon the kurtis Conservation Foundation (kCF) has invited the Chicago Botanic Garden to offer courses set on the extensive grounds of the Foundation and at Mettawa Manor & Gardens, built in 1927 and now the part-time residence of Bill kurtis and Donna laPietra. kCF and Mettawa Manor offer 75 acres of land with formal gardens, woodlands, ponds, and prairie, giving students exciting and diverse learning experiences.

scenic Photography Workshop at Mettawa Manor May 19 Saturday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mettawa Manor, Kurtis Conservation Foundation Jack Carlson, professional photographer $124 nonmember; members receive 20% discount The morning begins with orientation and basic overview of photographic concepts after which students will be at liberty to capture images of spring.

Informal discussion will be held during lunch on the terrace. After additional photography time, the day’s images will be presented and discussed. Students who enroll in this workshop should have a working knowledge of their camera’s controls and lens settings. Use of a tripod is strongly encouraged. Lunch will be provided, but please bring all other snacks and drinks you’ll require for the day. A map will be sent.

a Classic summer scene at Mettawa Manor June 16 Saturday 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Mettawa Manor, Kurtis Conservation Foundation Derek Norman, artist and director, Midwest Center for Botanical Documentation $124 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Join Derek Norman for a one-day workshop devoted to drawing, sketching, and painting the gardens of Mettawa Manor. Instruction will be given in various media from pencil, gouache, and pen-and-ink to English-style watercolor. Students will be encouraged to experiment in different media. Please dress for the weather and bring lots of water, as the entire workshop will be conducted in the field. Lunch will be provided. A supply list and map will be sent.

new! Herb-Garden-Inspired summer spa Day at Mettawa Manor July 17 Tuesday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mettawa Manor, Kurtis Conservation Foundation Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $159 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Join Nancy Clifton for a fragrant day away with garden- and spa-inspired herbs and flowers.

Following a brief program on fragrant herbs for homemade spa treatments, you will pot up a selection of herbs to take home and grow. Lunch at Mettawa is followed by the spa part of the program! We will make an herbal balm, bath bag, and sugar scrub to take home and finish the day with a relaxing surprise!

Lunch will be provided, but please bring all other snacks and drinks you’ll require for the day. A map will be sent.

new! Beyond Green: expressive Color in the landscape at Mettawa Manor August 7 Tuesday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mettawa Manor, Kurtis Conservation Foundation Nina Weiss, artist and teacher $124 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Students will learn how painters from the impressionist, expressionist, and fauvist movements thought about color in nature. A brief review of color and light will help students utilize techniques such as layering, optical mixture, broken brushstroke, and glazing to break through the limitations of local color in representing the landscape. Students will create small paintings in the medium of their choice, including gouache, acrylic, and oil. Please dress for the weather and bring lots of water, as the entire workshop will be conducted in the field. Lunch will be provided. A supply list and map will be sent.

Consciousness and nature retreat at Mettawa Manor September 21 Friday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Mettawa Manor, Kurtis Conservation Foundation Steve Nakon, director, Whole Journey Northwest Yoga $124 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Photo by Jack Carlson

Enjoy a state of relaxation and reconnecting with nature with activities like breathing exercises, gentle yoga, journaling, and meditation. Dress comfortably in weather-appropriate loose clothing and bring lots of water, as all activities will be outdoors. Bring a mat or chair. Lunch will be provided. A supply list and map will be sent.

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Call (847) 835-8261 or visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school to register.

Calligraphy and Floral Decoration May 24 – June 28 6 Thursdays 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Design Studio Judith Joseph, artist and educator $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Learn the art of beautiful writing and the flourishes of botanical illustration: it’s a match made in heaven!

Beginners start with the basics of calligraphy and floral decoration for invitations and cards. More experienced students polish their skills and complete a project. A supply list will be sent.

Plein air Drawing and Painting In the Greenhouse and Gardens June 7 – July 26 8 Thursdays 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Design Studio Michelle Kogan, artist and instructor $374 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Working from the grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden, we will create finished compositions using your choice of watercolor, acrylic, oils, and drawing media. Both beginners and seasoned artists are welcome. Beginners will focus on exercises starting with monochromatic paintings and build up to full-color compositions. Seasoned artists will be given criticism in composition, color, and materials. Some prior drawing experience would be helpful. Come prepared for the weather. A supply list will be sent.

Wrapped in Gold: silk scarf-Dyeing Workshop June 19 Tuesday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Annex 2 Pamela Feldman, artist and educator $99 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Marigolds, once the sacred flowers of the Aztecs, can be used as a dye to produce beautiful colors of soft yellows to a rich warm gold. In this one-day workshop, students will learn how to extract dye from garden plants and use that liquid to dye a silk scarf. Each student will take home a dyed scarf. Dye materials and scarf are included in the class fee. Dress for a mess! Open to all levels.

Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/school/faculty for faculty biographies.

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive a 20 percent discount on classes.

June 30 Saturday 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Fruit & Vegetable Learning Center Peggy Macnamara, artist and author $99 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Artist Peggy Macnamara’s art has captivated viewers with its imaginative view of the natural world. Join Macnamara for this exclusive workshop and learn her simple layering technique. She will teach you how to build form and color with transparent washes on 300-pound paper. We will work outside if the weather permits. A supply list will be sent.

new! Watercolor: Painting the natural World July 12 – August 16 6 Thursdays 12:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Design Studio Judith Joseph, artist and educator $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This course addresses ways to express the beauty of nature in watercolor. Each week will focus on a specific technique, such as ways to mix greens or show natural textures, with the goal of a more satisfying painting experience. The last two weeks will focus on landscape techniques: how to use composition, color, and focus to create the impression of a beautiful natural place. A supply list will be sent.

new! In Praise of trees: Drawing and Painting the trees of the Chicago Botanic Garden July 13 – August 17 6 Fridays 1 – 4 p.m.

Design Studio Derek Norman, artist and director, Midwest Center for Botanical Documentation $312 nonmember; members receive 20% discount For generations, trees have offered inspiration to painters, poets, philosophers, and others in awe of their natural beauty. From rugged, noble burr oaks to elegant whispering pines, this class offers an opportunity to study in pencil and paint the iconic trees of the Garden. Learn how to read a tree, how to capture the essence of their individual strength and character, and how to bring them to life on paper. This class is for students of all levels. A supply list will be sent.

Make Books, Make PoeMs: WorksHoPs FroM tHe saGe ProJeCt

Adult Education: Botanical Symposia Arts & Professional & Humanities Programs

Watercolor Workshop with Peggy Macnamara

the sage Project began as a cycle of poems written by Beth Feldman Brandt using John Gerard’s The Herbal: or, General History of Plants (1633) as a point of departure. With Claire owen, a Philadelphia painter and book artist, sage has grown into an artist book, and is part of an upcoming exhibition, Rare Seeds, Creative Harvest: Artist Books Inspired by the Rare Book Collection at the lenhardt library of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Join us for one or both of these creative workshops, led by the sage Project collaborators.

Register for both at once and receive a 10% discount. $152 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Paperbound Dos-a-dos Book Workshop

Poetry en Plein air

July 14 Saturday 9:30 a.m. – noon Design Studio Claire Owen, book artist and painter $99 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

July 14 Saturday 1 – 3:30 p.m.

Design Studio Beth Feldman Brandt, poet $69 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Handbound books can hold sketches or journals... or can be works of art themselves. The ‘dos-a-dos’ book dates back to the 16th and 17th centuries and is comprised of two separate books or ‘signatures’ bound in one cover, adding a new twist to contemporary bookmaking. Join us for this hands-on workshop led by featured Philadelphia book artist Claire Owen, in which you will learn to sew, bind, and build an embellished cover for this unusual book form. Use your newly made book in the afternoon poetry workshop. No experience is necessary and a supply list will be sent prior to the class.

Join us for a word-filled session of poetry reading and writing held in conjunction with the Lenhardt Library exhibition, Rare Seeds: Creative Harvest: Artist Books Inspired by the Rare Book Collection. Featured Philadelphia poet Beth Feldman Brandt will take us on a journey of careful observation and poetic invention using a range of techniques. Experienced poets and new writers are welcome. Please dress for the weather and bring your notebook, pen, and creative spirit!

Farmer’s Market Bouquets

new! Prairie Plant Wall tile

July 19 Thursday 1 – 3 p.m.

Annex 2 Nancy Clifton, program specialist, Chicago Botanic Garden $62 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

July 24 Tuesday 10 a.m. – noon or July 29 Sunday 1 – 3 p.m.

Annex 2 Janet Austin, artist $89 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

Join Nancy Clifton and learn how to select flowers and other materials from a farmer’s market. Using flowers from a local market, you will then create your own floral arrangement. The principles you learn will apply to flowers from your local market or even your own garden! Please bring pruners and a small box for your finished arrangement. All other materials are included in the fee.

Create a work of art for your garden with ceramic muralist, Janet Austin. Choose from a wide variety of native plants to press into a large clay slab. Then, with a clever process, add the plant’s name. The delicate low relief is brought to life with a lovely verdigris glaze. Finished 8” x 10” pieces are high fired, strung with a leather cord, and ready to pick up in several weeks.

Create a unique wall tile for your home or garden in the Prairie Plant Wall Tile class.

Learn how to bring trees to life on paper during In Praise of Trees, a drawing and painting class.

Illustration by Derek Norman

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During one special weekend this fall, the Illinois Gourd society will hold their state show at the Chicago Botanic Garden. realize your own creativity as you take a workshop from outstanding, knowledgeable instructors who belong to the Illinois Gourd society.

Gourd art Workshop: Paint and Ink on a Gourd September 14 Friday 9 a.m. – noon Annex 2 Sandy Bulgrin, artist, Illinois Gourd Society $50 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This fun workshop will allow students to use ink and paint on a cannonball gourd. Students can create their own design or use one of the designs supplied to transfer onto the gourd. Growing, harvesting, and cleaning will also be discussed. All materials supplied. All levels welcome.

Gourd art Workshop: Pine needle Gourds September 14 Friday 1 – 4 p.m.

Annex 2 Sandy Bulgrin, artist, Illinois Gourd Society $59 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Work with a gourd that has been cleaned and dyed.

Drill holes for the stitching of long leaf pine needles to the rim using either waxed linen or artificial sinew for stitching. Different stitch techniques will be taught.

Growing, harvesting, and cleaning will be discussed.

All materials supplied. All levels welcome.

new! Gourd art Workshop: singing Frog Birdhouse September 14 Friday 1 – 4 p.m. or September 15 Saturday 9 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Jackie Kendall, artist, Illinois Gourd Society $69 nonmember; members receive 20% discount The birds in your yard will love the new home you make them. This gourd birdhouse has great personality. The instructor will supply everything you need to make this beautiful birdhouse. If you have small paintbrushes, please bring them. All levels welcome.

new! Gourd art Workshop: Victorian tear Bottle September 15 Saturday 9 a.m. – noon Annex 2 Liz Drake, artist, Illinois Gourd Society $32 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Create this modern version of a Victorian tear bottle, which has been around since biblical times. Tears are collected as they fall, then worn close to the heart.

As the tears evaporate, so do your sorrows. Colored, cleaned, and cut Tennessee spinner gourds and all other materials are supplied. Students will become comfortable with a knot-less netting technique they can apply to future projects. All levels welcome.

Gourd art Workshop: Button Your Gourd September 15 Saturday 1 – 4 p.m. or September 16 Sunday 9 a.m. – noon Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Bonnie Cox, president, Illinois Gourd Society $69 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Antique buttons are sewn to a gourd as special embellishments. Unique effects can be added with embroidery stitches. The instructor provides the prepared gourd, buttons, embroidery thread, and a needle. An awl for making holes can be used in class and will be available for purchase for $10. Students can add their own buttons if desired and should bring scissors.

Gourd art Workshop: Halloween Bowl

Adult Education: Botanical Arts & Humanities

GourD art WorksHoPs

September 16 Sunday 9 a.m. – noon Annex 1 Sally Arnold, artist, Illinois Gourd Society $63 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Students will create Halloween designs on a gourd of their choosing using colorful acrylic paints and simple painting techniques. A variety of gourds will be prepped, primed, and ready to paint. All necessary materials will be provided for use in class to produce a finished project. Class is for the beginner decorative painter, although all skill levels are welcome.

Students may bring their own brushes if desired.

new! Gourd art Workshop: Gourd Basics, the Beginning September 16 Sunday 1 – 4 p.m.

Annex 2 Tom Bloore, artist, Illinois Gourd Society $44 nonmember; members receive 20% discount This class will emphasize several aspects of selecting safety and protection gear, tools, materials, and methods available for cleaning, assembling, and finishing your own custom gourd art. Students will be cleaning a dirty gourd to start their own project and using dyes and inks. Please bring safety glasses and an apron or smock. Instructor will provide other needed materials including gourds, tools, supplies, and protective gear. Bring your own woodburner or mini jigsaw, if you have it.

Gourd art Workshop: “Gourdgeous” Gourd Vessel September 15 Saturday 1 – 4 p.m.

Design Studio Sandy Bulgrin, artist, Illinois Gourd Society $50 nonmember; members receive 20% discount In this class we will start with a gourd that has been cleaned, dyed, and drilled. You will learn to coil with Danish cord and waxed linen to create a one-of-a-kind gourd vessel. Add yarn, feathers, and dried materials to the finished project. We will also discuss growing, cleaning, and dying of the gourds. This is a fun and exciting class, in which every gourd will be unique. All materials supplied. All levels welcome.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school/registration_policies for information on registration procedure and policy.

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BotanICal arts CertIFICate oF MerIt ProGraMs

new! Discovering scratchboard

new! start From Finish

Visiting Artist Program

Certificate Graduation

June 9 & 10 Saturday & Sunday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Design Studio Trudy Nicholson, nature, medical, and scientific illustrator $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

July 24 – August 14 4 Tuesdays 6 – 9 p.m.

Design Studio Heeyoung Kim, artist and instructor $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount

If you will be completing your certificate program you must register with the continuing education office to be considered for the 2012 Autumn Certificate Programs Graduation. Graduation will be held Friday, November 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the Alsdorf Auditorium.

Please register at www.chicagobotanic.org/school/ certificate/graduation no later than October 12.

new! Creative Botanicals with Colored Pencil May 17 – 31 3 Thursdays 6 – 9 p.m.

Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Nina Weiss, artist and teacher $124 nonmember; members receive 20% discount ART elective This class is designed to unlock creative color potential for botanical students. Students will study techniques such as blending, layering, and hatching, to create dimensional and lush drawings. A review of color theory will aid students in building effective drawings; with an emphasis on complex colors, color weight, gesture, and line. The School’s CEUs= 0.9

Watercolor 1 June 5 – July 17 6 Tuesdays (no class July 10) 6 – 9 p.m.

Design Studio Nancy Halliday, freelance artist and naturalist $287, members receive 20% discount ART requirement

ART elective Discover the excitement of ink or graphite pencil on white scratchboard. Ink is correctable on scratchboard, and therefore no longer intimidating! Graphite pencil can create soft, luminous effects, on which fine white lines may be added for detail. Use pen and blade to make black and white lines and deep shading, as well as striking highlights to produce dramatic effects. We will review tools and materials to create a vast range of textures. Subjects from nature will be used to create compositions to sketch, transfer, and render, conveying shape, textures, and spatial placement of each element. Work toward completing one ink or graphite pencil illustration. The School’s CEUs=1.2

Botany for Botanical artists June 16 – July 14 5 Thursdays 6 – 9 p.m.

Plant Science Lab, Regenstein Center Richard D. Hyerczyk, botanist $224 nonmember; members receive 20% discount ART requirement This class is designed with the botanical artist in mind. The focus will be on the visual aspects of botany rather than the study of internal features and processes. This class will distill the terminology of botanists into an understandable and useful form.

Lectures and demonstrations will explore vascular plant parts including flowers, stems, leaves, and roots.

Students will build skills, starting with basic color mixing and paint-handling exercises. Students will progress to rendering textures and form in color and using paint-layering techniques to achieve a naturalistic style.

ART elective This workshop is designed for botanical art students who want to improve their artworks. The instructor will guide students to find room for improvement and will help them to the next level. Each student is expected to bring a finished watercolor painting. Through constructive critique on the finished paintings among students and instructor, students will see their works from an objective point of view, which will be the starting point at this workshop. Dry brush, lift-out, and other techniques will be handled to correct mistakes, add details, and enhance an individual’s artistic strength. The School’s CEUs=1.2

new! oils with Michael Van Zeyl July 28 & 29 Saturday & Sunday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Design Studio Michael Van Zeyl, artist and instructor $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount ART elective In this two-day workshop, students will cover the essentials for creating dimensional, lifelike paintings including: materials, composition, and design, values, edges, basic color palettes for achieving color harmony, and various paint application methods.

Work from still life setups or your own photographic reference. Open to all levels. The School’s CEUs=1.2

Composition August 2 – September 6 6 Thursdays 6 – 9 p.m.

Design Studio Derek Norman, artist and director, Midwest Center for Botanical Documentation $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount ART requirement

Discover the beauty of oil painting during Oils with Michael Van Zeyl.

Students at all levels will learn the components of fine botanical composition in this studio class. Students will explore composition, design, and execution.

Chicago Botanic Garden members receive a 20 percent discount on classes.

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sIxtH annual stuDent BotanICal arts exHIBItIon

Registration Deadline August 3 Get your paintbrushes ready and your pencils sharpened! Registration is now open for the 2012 Student Botanical Art Exhibition. Students of all levels are welcome, but you must register and submit your entries by August 3 to participate. Please review detailed information on requirements, procedures, and submission due dates prior to registration. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school/botart_exhibition for more information.

Color Mixing 2 August 4 – 25 4 Saturdays 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Design Studio Marlene Hill Donnelly, scientific illustrator, The Field Museum $187 nonmember; members receive 20% discount ART elective Through exercises and demonstrations, this class will explore the more advanced aspects of color such as simultaneous contrast, color vibration, composing with color, mixing neutrals, and atmospheric perspective. Watercolor will be the primary medium but students may also work in hard pastel or colored pencil. The School’s CEUs=1.2

Botanical Drawing 1 Autumn session September 4 – October 30 (no class September 25) 8 Tuesdays 6 – 9 p.m.

Design Studio Marlene Hill Donnelly, scientific illustrator, The Field Museum $349 nonmember; members receive 20% discount ART requirement Strong drawing is the cornerstone of botanical art.

In this class, we will work in pencil, covering the fundamentals of proportions, line, tone, dimensionality, and expression. We will work from live specimens, flowers, seeds, and fruit to learn to draw plants accurately and beautifully.

Botanical Drawing 2 November 3 – December 22 6 Saturdays (no class November 24 & December 1) 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Design Studio Marlene Hill Donnelly, scientific illustrator, The Field Museum $287 nonmember; members receive 20% discount ART requirement Continue to build your drawing skills with advanced graphite techniques, light and dark media on toned paper, and carbon dust. Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing 1.

Photography Discover the joy of nature and garden photography with the Garden as your studio! advance your artistic and technical skills in classes and workshops for students of all levels led by outstanding photography professionals.

spring Garden Photography May 16 – 30 3 Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Design Studio Linda Oyama Bryan, garden photographer $162 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Join Linda Oyama Bryan in photographing the Garden’s wonderful spring gardens. Classes will include lecture on the basics of digital photography and photographic techniques for shooting gardens and flower close-ups. Images taken during our hands-on sessions shooting in the Garden and homework assignments will be critiqued the following weeks. Both beginners and experienced photographers welcome.

new! Photographing summer scenes June 1 – 22 4 Fridays 9 a.m. – noon Design Studio Jack Carlson, certified professional photographer $166 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Learn how to capture the natural beauty and colors of the Garden in summer. Perspective, composition, and light control techniques will be discussed in the classroom. These concepts will then be put into practice as students capture images in selected areas of the Garden. This class is designed for students who have completed a beginning photography course or have an understanding of their camera controls. A camera is required and a tripod is recommended.

You’ll bring home wall-worthy images of summer at the Chicago Botanic Garden in its profusion of color and light.

Learn how to photographically capture the natural beauty and color of the Garden.

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Wellness & Fitness Meditation Walk: the Cycles of life May 5 Saturday 8 – 10 a.m.

Meet at Visitor Center Mary Ann Spina, teacher, writer, and counselor, and Melinda Vadjic, flutist $24 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Come prepared to relax and renew as we slowly walk around the Great Basin, making four stops for guided meditation with accompanying flute music. The four life-cycle images we will focus on are creation/birth, growth, pain and loss, and new life. Each image will be linked to our own life experiences, and you will have private time to contemplate, journal, wander, and breathe. This event will take place rain or shine as we can utilize covered spaces if needed.

new! aromatherapy for summer Care June 4 Monday 1 – 3 p.m.

Fairchild Room Etsuko Kobira Rutz, IFA aromatherapist, LMT, BSc $49 nonmember; members receive 20% discount Did you know that there are essential oils that offer natural protection for the summer season, including lavender, tea tree, and peppermint? Learn about these oils and then make a sample of an insect repellent and a sunscreen spray to prepare you for the summer!

There will be more recipes and ideas given in the class, so come and join us!

new! aromatic Walking tour at the Chicago Botanic Garden July 14 Saturday 10 a.m. – noon Linnaeus Room Etsuko Kobira Rutz, IFA aromatherapist, LMT, BSc $49 nonmember; members receive 20% discount The Chicago Botanic Garden has many display plants that are also used in the aromatherapy industry. This fun, healthy, and educational walking tour will provide you with an opportunity to experience some of these plants through sight, touch, and smell while you hear about their therapeutic properties as well. You may be surprised by the therapeutic properties of some of the more common aromatic plants like rose, basil, and sage! Dress for the weather, as this class will be primarily outdoors.

Adult Education: Wellness Symposia&&Fitness Professional Programs

Make the Garden Your Health Club The Chicago Botanic Garden’s fitness instructors bring the Garden to life while introducing students to new ways to enrich their bodies, minds, and souls. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/school/wellness for information on all of this summer’s classes, from tai chi and yoga to fitness walks and ExerScape.

Esther Gutiérrez-Sloan

Angelo Miranda

leading all fitness walks, esther is aCe certified and trained in total Body training systems, and a 2010 inductee into the national Fitness Hall of Fame. let esther help you maximize the effectiveness of your walking time for increased health and weight loss. You will find esther in the Visitor Center, rain or shine, every saturday morning at 8 a.m. from april through mid-november. Drop in and try a class!

exerscape instructor angelo Miranda is a certified personal trainer, Muscle activation technique specialist and owner of Custom Fitness ltd., and has more than ten years of experience bridging the gap between healthcare and health club. Come meet up with this fun class most tuesdays, thursdays, and saturdays at 9 a.m. in the Visitor Center to exercise in the scenic beauty of the Garden.

Gordon Lock

Patricia Nakon

a tai chi instructor on Chicago’s north shore, Gordon first started learning the Yang style tai Chi Chuan in Hong kong when he was very young, and continued his training on the west coast of the united states, in the Midwest, and in taiwan. In addition to practicing the traditional tai chi Chuan (Yang, Chen, and sun styles), he is a certified instructor of tai Chi for arthritis. sign up for one of his classes and experience the benefits of tai chi in your life.

Yoga instructor Patricia nakon, co-director of Whole Journey northwest Yoga, is precise and clear in her approach. a certified yoga instructor and reiki master, Patricia infuses her gentle guiding style with elements of energy healing and guided imagery.

Check out the quarterly yoga schedule to see when she is teaching in the Garden View room.

Steve Nakon Yoga instructor steve nakon, founder and director of Whole Journey northwest Yoga, is an inspiring teacher and health advocate. a graduate of the kushi Institute, certified yoga instructor, and member of the International association of Yoga therapists, steve’s approach to practice honors the individual while bringing the ancient teachings into a modern context.

Check out the quarterly yoga schedule to see which of the ten classes offered work best for you.

Make this the season of change for all your fitness goals. www.chicagobotanic.org/wellness

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Youth and Family Programs Early positive experiences in nature can foster a lifelong appreciation of the natural world.

That is why, with the support of the Guild of the Chicago Botanic Garden, we are deeply committed to engaging families and children of all ages with a year-round schedule of professionally designed, age-appropriate programs held throughout the Garden.

Fun in the Sun! Summer Drop-in Programs The Chicago Botanic Garden is the place for families, especially during summer weekends. A medley of drop-in programs rotates throughout the season, engaging children ages 2 through 10 and their caregivers in handson learning and fun. Programs are offered weekends, June 2 through September 30, continually from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

New this year! Programs will be offered in the Garden’s just-opened Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden, which is part of the Learning Campus!

In Super Seeds, budding gardeners dissect seeds, match them, and make a real seed necklace to take home. Rainbow Garden focuses on colorful fruits and vegetables and how “eating the rainbow” leads to a healthier lifestyle.

Everyone loves Wiggling Worms because digging in a working worm compost bin is so much fun. Plant Parts participants use colors to see how water journeys through a plant, and take home herbs to make flavored butter at home. Powerful Pollinators explores pollinators like bees, butterflies, moths, and beetles, and invites children to pretend to be an insect and “pollinate” flowers.

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Fee-based Programs

Little Diggers

Free Programs

Nature Nights

$70 nonmember per child Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount

Discovery Backpacks Enliven your family’s Garden visit using tools to identify and observe plants and animals. Check out one of our free backpacks, available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Information Desk in the Visitor Center.

Story Time Mondays through May 21 10 – 11 a.m.

Stop by the Lenhardt Library on Monday mornings for nature-themed stories and hands-on activities.

Geared toward children ages 2 to 5 with a caregiver.

Malott Japanese Garden Children’s Festival Saturday, May 19 & Sunday, May 20 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Learn about children’s celebrations in Japan. Listen to music, enjoy traditional folktales, and watch a tea ceremony. Kids of all ages can make projects to celebrate Girls’ Day and Boys’ Day—design a kimono paper doll, create a miniature carp kite, construct an origami samurai helmet, and more.

Grunsfeld Growing Garden Family Drop-in Activities Saturdays & Sundays, June through September 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Get close to nature, discover where food comes from, and find out how plants grow. Pollinate flowers, dissect seeds, see roots growing, compost with worms, create a rainbow for healthy eating, and more. Activities vary from week to week.

Malott Japanese Garden Family Sundays Sundays, June 3 & 17, July 1 & 15, August 5, and September 2 & 16 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Drop by the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden for hands-on activities related to Japanese arts and culture. Practice using chopsticks, rake miniature dry gardens, make Japanese kites, and more. The free activities vary each time.

Malott Japanese Garden Summer Festival Saturday, August 18 & Sunday, August 19 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Learn about the summer festivals (matsura) celebrated in Japan. Listen to taiko drum and koto harp music, enjoy traditional folktales, and watch a tea ceremony. Kids of all ages can make projects to celebrate summer—fold origami, create a paper fan, make a kite, and more.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/familyprograms/ dropin for more information on all of these programs.

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5 – 7:30 p.m. $25 nonmember per child Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount Bring a picnic dinner and spend an evening in the Garden! Children ages 4 to 10 and their families will explore different areas of the Garden and enjoy a variety of discovery-based activities. Each Nature Nights also includes a tram ride, a planting project, and s’mores around the campfire.

Sensory Stroll June 2 or 16 Taste, touch, smell, see, and listen—practice using all your senses during a food tasting and sensory activity. You and your child will also discover the sensational plants of the Sensory Garden and take home your own sensory plant.

Harvest Hike July 7 or 21 Experience the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden at the height of its season. You and your child will explore the Garden to find unique plants used for food, discuss composting plant material, and even plant and harvest some veggies to take home.

Sculpture Scavenger Hunt August 4 or 18 Plants and nature often inspire artists. Explore the collection of sculptures hidden throughout the Garden, visit the Places for the Spirit exhibition, create your own sculpture using natural materials, and pot up a sculptural plant to take home.

New! Fantastic Forests September 1 or 15 Giant oaks, maples, and elm trees all call the woods their home. Learn to identify these and other trees and shrubs, make a recycled wood project, and learn why forests are so important to our daily lives. You will even plant a tree to take home.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/naturenights or call (847) 835-6801 for more information.

Family Campouts

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Thursdays: 9/13, 10/11, 11/8, 12/13 Fridays: 9/14, 10/12, 11/9, 12/14 Saturdays: 9/15, 10/13, 11/10, 12/15 Learn about flowers, discover animals, experience the changing seasons, and more! These four-class series for children ages 2 – 4 and caregivers meet once a month in the morning, from September through December. Each program includes group activities, time for free play, and a planting project.

Youth & Family Programs

Family Programs

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/littlediggers to register or call (847) 835-6801 for more information.

Birthday Parties Celebrate your child’s birthday with a gardenthemed party! All parties include educational, hands-on activities led by Garden staff. Every child takes home a plant plus additional items they’ve created. Parties can be scheduled year-round on Saturday or Sunday mornings or afternoons for children turning 4 and up. Garden Plus membership required. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/birthdays or call (847) 835-8275 for more information.

Youth Scouts Scout Badge Programs $10 per scout for 90-minute programs (ages 6 – 8) $15 per scout for two-hour programs (ages 9 – 12) Scouts can complete badge requirements with challenging activities. Our Scout programs take children throughout the Garden and can be scheduled after school Monday through Friday, and on select Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/scout or call (847) 835-8239 for more information.

Families can pitch a tent in our Outdoor Classroom for a low-stress camping experience with flushing toilets and running water! We’ll go for an evening hike through the prairie and cook s’mores around a campfire. Plan to spend the night as we are unable to accommodate “under-night” or evening-only participants. Activities are geared for participants ages 6 and up. Please note the rain date when registering for the campout. Campout fees will only be refunded if both the original date and the rain date are canceled.

July 28 (rain date August 3) $50 per child $20 per adult Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount 5 p.m. Saturday – 8 a.m. Sunday Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/afterschool/campouts or call (847) 835-8239 for more information.

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Weeklong camps My First Camp Age 2 Born on or before September 1, 2010

2

Age

$82 nonmember per child per week of camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Would you like to spend some time learning, exploring, and bonding with your child in an engaging environment? Welcome to My First Camp!

My First Camp Age 2 Information • Each camp meets one Tuesday and Thursday from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.

• An adult must accompany each registered child.

• To make camp enjoyable and fair to all, do not bring unregistered children, including siblings, to camp.

Nursing mothers may call (847) 835-8361 to make arrangements.

• Camp locations will be e-mailed the week prior to your camp.

• Dress for the weather.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

Jk-K

$205 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Would you like to spend some time learning, exploring, and bonding with your child in an engaging environment? Welcome to My First Camp!

Green Sprouts Information

My First Camp Age 3 Information

• Dress for the weather.

• Each camp meets one Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

• An adult must accompany each registered child.

Bug Brigade June 18 – 22, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT July 30 – August 3, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

• To make camp enjoyable and fair to all, do not bring unregistered children, including siblings, to camp.

Nursing mothers may call (847) 835-8361 to make arrangements.

• Camp locations will be e-mailed the week prior to your camp.

• Dress for the weather.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

Art & Music June 18, 20, 22 July 23, 25, 27 Fantastic Foods July 16, 18, 20 August 13, 15, 17 My First Garden June 25, 27, 29 August 6, 8, 10

Fantastic Foods July 17 & 19 SOLD OUT August 14 & 16

Small Scientists July 9, 11, 13 July 30, August 1, 3

Small Scientists July 10 & 12 SOLD OUT July 31 & August 2 SOLD OUT

Most children are 4 or 5.

$123 nonmember per child per week of camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Art & Music June 19 & 21 SOLD OUT July 24 & 26

My First Garden June 26 & 28 SOLD OUT August 7 & 9 SOLD OUT

Green Sprouts

Grades

Born on or before September 1, 2009

3

Age

Youth & Family: Camp CBG

Camp CBG

My First Camp Age 3

See page 79 for complete camp schedule.

• Camps meet Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to noon or 12:30 to 3 p.m.

Fun with Physics June 25 – 29, 9:30 a.m. – noon August 6 – 10, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Garden Expedition June 25 – 29, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

July 16 – 20, 9:30 a.m. – noon Habitat Hunters July 9 – 13, 9:30 a.m. – noon August 13 – 17, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Hidden Treasures June 25 – 29, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT July 16 – 20, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

August 6 – 10, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT Mad Scientists June 18 – 22, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

July 23 – 27, 9:30 a.m. – noon August 13 – 17, 9:30 a.m. – noon Nature Art July 9 – 13, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

July 30 – August 3, 9:30 a.m. – noon August 13 – 17, 9:30 a.m. – noon Salad Science June 18 – 22, 9:30 a.m. – noon July 23 – 27, 9:30 a.m. – noon Sprouting Wizards July 9 – 13, 9:30 a.m. – noon July 23 – 27, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

July 30 – August 3, 9:30 a.m. – noon Super Seedlings July 16 – 20, 9:30 a.m. – noon August 6 – 10, 9:30 a.m. – noon

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/ camp for complete program descriptions and information on availabiltity.

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Grades

Most children are 6 or 7.

Youth & Family: Family Programs Camp CBG

Green Thumbs

$205 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Green Thumbs Information • Camps meet Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to noon or 12:30 to 3 p.m.

• Dress for the weather.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

Treasure Hunt June 25 – 29, 12:30 – 3 p.m. SOLD OUT July 16 – 20, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT Expert Wizardry July 23 – 27, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT Explore Your World June 25 – 29, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT July 16 – 20, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Plant People August 6 – 10, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Grossology June 18 – 22, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT August 13 – 17, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Wildlife Wanderers July 9 – 13, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

August 13 – 17, 9:30 a.m. – noon Insect Investigation June 18 – 22, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

July 30 – August 3, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT

Most children are 8 or 9.

3-4

Grades

Explorers

$205 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Explorers Information • Camps meet Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to noon or 12:30 to 3 p.m.

• Dress for the weather.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

Alfresco Art June 18 – 22, 9:30 a.m. – noon July 23 – 27, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Amazing Adaptations July 9 – 13, 9:30 a.m. – noon August 13 – 17, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

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Camera Craft June 25 – 29, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

July 30 – August 3, 9:30 a.m. – noon Dirty Jobs July 23 – 27, 9:30 a.m. – noon August 6 – 10, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Forensic Investigators June 25 – 29, 9:30 a.m. – noon

Most children are 6 or 7.

Camps meet Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Surviving Outdoors June 18 – 22, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Most children are 10 to 12.

Art & Plants June 18 – 29

5-7

Fun with Science July 9 – 20 CBG Adventure July 23 – August 3

$420 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Mix It Up August 6 – 17

Adventurers Information • Camps meet Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Explorers

• Dress for the weather.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

Art July 16 – 20 August 13 – 17 SOLD OUT Chemistry June 18 – 22 July 23 – 27 Cuisine July 9 – 13 SOLD OUT August 6 – 10 Ecology June 25 – 29 July 30 – August 3

1-2

$840 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Konnichiwa Japan August 13 – 17, 9:30 a.m. – noon

Adventurers

The Garden now offers two-week full-day camps for Green Thumbs and Explorers! We have grouped four of your favorite camps into a fun-filled, outdoor, and educational two-week-long camp program. Choose one or all four! Remember to pack a water bottle and snack daily, along with a peanut-free lunch that does not require refrigeration.

Green Thumbs

Garden Caching July 16 – 20, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

August 6 – 10, 9:30 a.m. – noon

Wicked Plants July 9 – 13, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

NEW for 2012!

Two-week camps

Grades

Kinetic Kids August 6 – 10, 9:30 a.m. – noon

Botany in the Kitchen July 16 – 20, 9:30 a.m. – noon July 30 – August 3, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Most children are 8 or 9.

3-4

Grades

Incredible Edibles July 23 – 27, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

Grades

Art in the Garden July 9 – 13, 9:30 a.m. – noon SOLD OUT July 30 – August 3, 12:30 – 3 p.m.

$840 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Camps meet Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Plants & the Arts June 18 – 29 Explore CBG July 9 – 20 Science Explorer July 23 – August 3 Explore It All August 6 – 17

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Returning in 2012!

Camp registration and cancellation policies Registration Deadline

Special Needs

$205 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Registration is open until camps fill or one week prior to the start date of camp. You will receive an automated reply immediately upon completion of your online registration.

The Garden is committed to providing accessible experiences for all children. If your child will require special accommodations, please call (847) 835-8361 to discuss your situation prior to registering.

Yoga Bash Camp Information

Membership

Please Do Not Bring to Camp

Garden Plus and above members receive a 20 percent discount on all Camp CBG programs! Those holding individual Garden memberships will not receive this discount. Please call (847) 835-8215 if you would like to upgrade your membership in order to receive the discount. You will need to provide a member ID number at the time of camp registration. Please note that Garden membership is nontransferable.

The Garden is NOT responsible for any item lost or broken during camp. Please leave the following items at home: personal video game players, cellphones, MP3 players/iPods, and iPad-type devices.

Yoga Bash Camp Ages 6 – 10 June 18 – 22 or July 16 – 20

• Camp meets Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

• Bring a mat or purchase one of our mats for $10.

• Camps will take place in the Poetry Meadow, located just west of the Learning Center.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

Grow the Pose with Yoga June 18 – 22 Campers will build strength, flexibility, and confidence through practicing yoga, as we explore the Garden while learning about elements such as the earth, air, and water.

Learning the Lotus July 16 – 20

Age Limits Please note the age/grade requirements for each camp group. Campers must be entering the listed grade in fall 2012. We regret that we cannot make any exceptions to this policy. Campers in the Green Sprouts group and above must be toilet trained.

Online Emergency Forms

Hubbard Street Dance Camp

Camp CBG does not require a medical examination to attend camp; however, we ask that you fill out our Online Emergency Form as soon as you complete your online registration. In order for your child to attend camp, we must have a completed health form on file by June 1, 2012. The form is available at www.chicagobotanic.org/contact/index_camp.php on the Camp CBG website.

Ages 6 – 10 July 30 – August 3

Snacks

We will draw on imagination, creativity, music, and stories to help us promote balance, movement, and harmony.

$325 nonmember per child per camp Garden Plus members receive a 20% discount.

Hubbard Street Dance Camp Information • Camp meets Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

Please pack a peanut-free snack for your camper each day. We will take a snack break midmorning and midafternoon daily. Some camps may be making their own additional snacks during Camp CBG. If your child has food allergies that may prevent him or her from consuming these snacks, please specify to what degree on the Online Emergency Form.

Camper Code of Conduct You will be asked to review the CBG Camper Code of Conduct upon completion of the Online Emergency Form: • Campers will treat their fellow campers, instructors, and volunteers with respect.

• Campers will follow directions and stay with their group.

Please read and discuss these expectations with your child. In the event that a camper does not follow the Code of Conduct, or his or her behavior endangers other campers or interferes with an instructor’s ability to provide programming, the coordinator of camp programs or camp instructor will inform the parent at pickup or through a phone call. If a second incident occurs, parents may be asked to withdraw their child from camp. Refunds will not be given for behaviorrelated withdrawals.

Lunch Camp CBG offers a supervised lunch period for Green Sprouts, Green Thumbs, and Explorers campers for $10 per child per week. Pack a peanut-free lunch for your child that does not require refrigeration, and we will supervise your child during lunch (noon to 12:30 p.m.) and escort your child to his or her afternoon camp.

• Camp will take place in the Learning Center.

• Pack a water bottle and peanut-free snack daily.

Energy collides with creativity at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Discover Dance© Summer Camp! Campers will be introduced to the exciting world of contemporary dance. Working with the professional dancers and teaching artists of HSDC, campers will explore how contemporary dance is created, then use that experience to create a new work. This workshop is appropriate for aspiring dancers of all abilities.

Leaders in Training Our Leaders in Training (LITs), ages 13 to 15, will help prepare for camps, assist teachers during the day, and learn life skills. This two-week program will help future job seekers and college applicants.

For an application and further information regarding the LIT program, please contact the camp manager at (847) 835-8361.

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Camp CBG Schedule Yoga & Dance

HSDC Discover Dance

Yoga Bash Camp

Art & Music

My First Garden

Small Scientists

Fantastic Foods

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

Art & Music

Small Scientists

My First Garden

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

Fantastic Foods

Art & Music

My First Garden

Small Scientists

Fantastic Foods

Art & Music

Small Scientists

My First Garden

Fantastic Foods

Bug Brigade

Hidden Treasures

Habitat Hunters

Garden Expedition

Salad Science

Nature Art

Super Seedlings

Mad Scientists

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

Salad Science

Fun with Physics

Sprouting Wizards

Super Seedlings

Mad Scientists

Sprouting Wizards

Hidden Treasures

Nature Art

Mad Scientists

Garden Expedition

Nature Art

Hidden Treasures

Sprouting Wizards

Bug Brigade

Fun with Physics

Habitat Hunters

9:30 a.m. noon

Grossology SOLD OUT

Explore Your World

Art in the Garden

Treasure Hunt

Expert Wizardry

Insect Investigation

Kinetic Kids

Wildlife Wanderers

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

12:30 3 p.m.

Insect Investigation

Treasure Hunt

Wildlife Wanderers

Explore Your World

Incredible Edibles

Art in the Garden

Plant People

Grossology

Green Thumbs

Green Sprouts

My First Camp

August 13-17

Green Sprouts

My First Camp

August 6-10

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT FULL-DAY TWO-WEEK 9:30 a.m. 3 p.m.

Art & Plants Art in the Garden, Incredible Edibles, Plant People, Expert Wizardry

Fun With Science Expert Wizardry,Grossology, Kinetic Kids, Insect Investigation

CBG Adventure Treasure Hunt, Plant People, Wildlife Wanderers, Explore Your World

Mix It Up Treasure Hunt, Art in the Garden, Grossology, Incredible Edibles

Alfresco Art

Forensic Investigators

Amazing Adaptations

Botany in the Kitchen

Dirty Jobs

Camera Craft

Garden Caching

Konnichiwa Japan

12:30 3 p.m.

Surviving Outdoors

Camera Craft

Wicked Plants

Garden Caching

Alfresco Art

Botany in the Kitchen

Dirty Jobs

Amazing Adaptations

Explorers

9:30 a.m. noon

Adventurers

Explorers

1-2

3-4

July 30Aug 3

12:30 3 p.m.

Grades

3-4

July 23-27

9:30 a.m. noon

Grades

5-7

July 16-20

Explorers

Jk-K 1-2

Grades Grades Grades

Grades

July 9-13

Green Thumbs

9:30 a.m. noon

June 25-29

Green Thumbs

9:45 11:15 a.m

3 2

9:45 11:15 a.m.

Green Sprouts

Yoga Bash Camp

9:30 a.m. noon

Age

June 18-22

Age

Time

FULL-DAY TWO-WEEK 9:30 a.m. 3 p.m.

9:30 a.m. 3 p.m.

Plants & the Arts Alfresco Art, Camera Craft, Konnichiwa Japan, Botany in the Kitchen

Chemistry

Ecology

Explore CBG Dirty Jobs, Konnichiwa Japan, Wicked Plants, Garden Caching

Cuisine SOLD OUT

Science Explorer Amazing Adaptations, Surviving Outdoors, Wicked Plants, Forensic Investigators

Art

Chemistry

Ecology

Explore It All Forensic Investigators, Camera Craft, Alfresco Art, Surviving Outdoors

Cuisine

Art SOLD OUT

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Teacher & Student Programs

Teacher and Student Programs The Garden is a living laboratory. It is an ideal setting for learning about plants, ecology, conservation, and the natural world. From school field trips to teacher workshops and student internships, educators and students encounter fresh ideas, innovative teaching techniques, and meaningful science content that supports Illinois learning standards.

Growing Scientists: Chicago Botanic Garden Science Career Continuum The fate of the world’s plants—indeed, our planet— rests with a group of people sitting in science class today.

To mitigate the impact of climate change and habitat destruction, a new generation of environmental scientists is urgently needed. Yet these careers traditionally draw the fewest graduate students, with particularly low representation by African American and Hispanic students.

One-on-one mentorships with experts give students firsthand knowledge about the rewards of working in conservation science.

The Chicago Botanic Garden is responding to this need by offering a comprehensive Science Career Continuum, developed with a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Continuum provides seamless integration of the Garden’s science education programming, mentorship, and internship opportunities, from middle school (drawing from Chicago Public Schools) up through graduate study offered by the Garden in partnership with Northwestern University.

Through the Continuum, the Garden is helping to prepare future scientists with the education and training they need to address the environmental challenges of our time.

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We invite you to expand your knowledge, enrich your teaching techniques, and enliven your grades preK – 12 classrooms, while earning professional development and graduate credit. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/ teacherprograms for more detailed program descriptions and to register for classes.

Unless otherwise indicated, all programs are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Become an Educator Member and receive a 20 percent discount on all professional development courses over $100.

2012 Spring Programs Plant & Animal Interactions May 12 at the Brookfield Zoo May 19 at the Chicago Botanic Garden Saturdays $150 (20% discount for Educator Members) Grade level: PreK – 12 CPDU credit: 15, CPS Lane credit: 1, Graduate credit (additional fee): 1 Come explore the amazing interactions among plants and animals in this two-day workshop. One day will be spent at the Chicago Botanic Garden and another at the Brookfield Zoo, learning how plants and animals have evolved together. Learn how local plants have adapted to attract animals to pollinate their flowers and disperse their seeds. This course will assist in the teaching of interdependence.

Bringing Up Bookworms: Using Children’s Literature to Teach Plant Science June 2 & 9 at the Chicago Botanic Garden Saturdays $150 (20% discount for Educator Members) Grade level: PreK – 8 CPDU credit: 15, CPS Lane credit: 1, Graduate credit (additional fee): 1 The Garden brings you the latest techniques for fostering literacy through science and science through literacy. Learn how to develop practical lesson plans that inspire kids to read, write about, and discover science and nature. We will look at some of our favorite books and learn a number of bookmaking techniques. Award-winning children’s book author Cheryl Bardoe will discuss hallmarks of excellent science literature and share her own techniques to pass on to your students for writing about nature with clarity and creativity.

2012 Summer Programs Ecosystem Studies Summer Institute (Garden Camp for Teachers III) June 25 – 27 & September 15 at the Chicago Botanic Garden Monday – Wednesday & Saturday June 28 – 29 at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Thursday & Friday $285 (20% discount for Educator Members) Grade level: K – 12 CPDU credit: 45, Lane credit: 3, Graduate credit (additional fee): 3 The Chicago Botanic Garden and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum are excited to offer this weeklong summer institute that will enrich your understanding of the native and urban ecosystems of Illinois. Take away hands-on, place-based lessons that will inspire you to bring the outdoors into your classroom. Topics covered include native biodiversity, adaptations, interdependence of species, and the challenges with invasive organisms.

School Gardening Conference Learning, Moving, and Growing: Healthy Lifestyles through School Gardening June 30 at the Chicago Botanic Garden Saturday 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. $115 Early-bird registration before June 1 $125 After June 1 CPDU credit: 6

Earth Partnership for Schools: Native Garden Summer Institute July 23 – 27 & December 8 at Lost Valley Visitor Center, McHenry County Conservation District Monday – Friday & Saturday $100 Grade level: K – 12 CPDU credit: 45, Lane credit: 3, Graduate credit: 3 In this outdoor, hands-on institute, teacher teams of three or more will be trained to facilitate ecological restoration programs and plan a school native plant restoration project. Learn to teach about the rich culture and natural history of the Chicago region.

Earth Partnership for Schools: Great Lakes Summer Institute July 30 – 31 & December 1 at Ryerson Woods Forest Preserve Monday – Tuesday & Saturday August 1 – 3 at Beach Park Middle School Wednesday – Friday $100 Grade level: K – 12 CPDU credit: 45, Lane credit: 3, Graduate credit: 3 In this outdoor, hands-on institute, teacher teams of three or more will be trained to facilitate ecological restoration of native gardens on schoolyards, in rain gardens, and nearby shoreline, wetland, and riparian habitats. Learn to teach about the rich culture and natural history of the Chicago Region. For registration for the EPS-GL please contact Melissa Alderson at (847) 968-3326.

School gardens offer students so many ways to learn about healthy eating, get physical activity, and understand that we are part of the environment. Join us for a day of inspiration as we showcase school garden projects that are improving our lives.

Continental breakfast and lunch and are included.

Small Hands in the Garden: A Workshop for Early Intervention Providers

Botany Basics Summer Institute

Grade level: Birth – PreK CPDU credit: 7, Early Intervention credit: 6

(Garden Camp for Teachers I)

Join us for a fun-filled day open to anyone who works with infants and toddlers. This workshop will focus on the importance of introducing nature to our youngest explorers. Participating in hands-on learning stations will inspire you to incorporate nature into your daily routine. This class is designed for people who work with infants to three-year-olds, and is adaptable for those who work with preK children.

July 9 – 11 at the Garfield Park Conservatory Monday – Wednesday July 12 – 13 & October 6 at the Chicago Botanic Garden Thursday – Friday & Saturday $285 (20% discount for Educator Members)

Teacher & Student Programs

Teacher Professional Development

August 8 at the Chicago Botanic Garden Wednesday $85

Grade level: K – 12 CPDU credit: 45, Lane credit: 3, Graduate credit (additional fee): 3 The Garden and Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance join forces to present plant fundamentals and the plant life cycle. Learn how plants function, adapt, and interact with their environment; then incorporate plant-related activities into subjects across the curriculum.

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2012 Fall Programs Illinois Department of Natural Resources ENTICE Workshop: Illinois Woodland Ecology October 13 at the Chicago Botanic Garden Saturday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. $10 Grade level: 4 – 10 CPDU credit: 6 Join staff from the Chicago Botanic Garden as they teach us about the interrelationships of organisms in Illinois woodlands and the special problems associated with woodland restorations. This workshop will include discussions of species adaptations, relationships of woodland organisms to each other and the physical environment, invasive species, and much more. We’ll take a tour to see how these topics relate to the Chicago Botanic Garden and we will do some hands-on sampling.

Other Teacher Programs

New! Green Science for the Future

Custom Workshops

November 10 at the Chicago Botanic Garden November 17 at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Saturday

Education staff can develop custom workshops to be delivered at your site. Teachers, administrative staff, and parent or neighborhood volunteers can all participate through active learning that models grade-appropriate techniques for integrating plant-based learning into the curriculum. Please call Teacher Programs at (847) 835-6801 for more information about scheduling and pricing for custom workshops.

$150 (20% discount for Educator Members) Grade level: 3 – 12 CPDU credit: 15, Lane credit: 1, Graduate credit (additional fee): 1 Join us in exploring green topics in environmental science that are geared to engage students in inquiry learning. Learn to integrate such issues as recycling, alternative energy, green roofs, and more into your existing curriculum with an easy, hands-on approach.

Discover how you and your students can make your classroom and school more environmentally friendly.

Exploring Desert Ecosystems December 1 at the Chicago Botanic Garden December 8 at Brookfield Zoo Saturday

Green Teacher Network The Chicago Botanic Garden, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, and Openlands have teamed up to form the Green Teacher Network. This collaboration encourages Chicago-area schools to adapt plant-based education activities, and supports teachers’ efforts to build and use school gardens as curricular tools. For more information or to become a member, contact Jaime Zaplatosch at Openlands at (312) 863-6270.

$150 (20% discount for Educator Members)

Gardening Courses

Grade level: PreK – 12 CPDU credit: 15, Lane credit: 1, Graduate credit (additional fee): 1

Windy City Harvest offers half-day and full-day workshops on growing plants indoors and outside.

It’s a great way to improve your school gardening skills. Watch for listings in upcoming issues of Keep Growing.

Why are deserts important? Why should we protect them? Explore the amazing adaptations of desert plants at the Garden’s Greenhouses and desert animals at the Brookfield Zoo. Learn about the ecology and importance of deserts through hands-on activities that support interdisciplinary instruction.

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School field trips promote close encounters with nature.

Free Classroom Resource Kits for Loan The Regenstein School offers a variety of resource kits of learning materials for educators to use in the classroom. Borrowing a kit requires a $50 deposit, which is refunded upon the return of the complete kit.

For kit availability and/or to arrange for kit pickup call (847) 835-8253.

School Field Trips Enrich your students’ educational experience with a visit to the Garden.

Choose from a variety of programs that feature plant and nature topics appropriate for specific grade levels.

Guided and self-guided options are available. Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/ctl/fieldtrips for complete program information and to schedule your visit.

New! This fall the Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden, located on the Learning Campus, will be open and used for guided programs; self-guided groups may visit the Growing Garden after all programs are finished using the space.

Homeschool Groups We welcome you to register for field trips to the Garden. If your homeschool group includes a range of ages, please review our complete program descriptions online and select a program that best matches your group’s grade level and knowledge base.

Guided Programs for Children with Special Needs K – 12 Monday through Friday $120 (includes all materials) Maximum number of children: 15 Bring your students to the Chicago Botanic Garden for a customized therapeutic program in the Buehler Enabling Garden’s outdoor classroom. These one-hour programs provide a guided, structured experience with nature and are designed for youth with special needs while meeting educational goals. If you find it difficult to travel with your students, please contact us to discuss possible programs delivered in your school.

Call (847) 835-6801 to learn more about horticultural therapy for your students or to schedule a program.

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Program

PreK – K PreK – 2 K–2

Discovering Plants Trains and Trees Science Sleuths Garden Groceries Insect Investigations Surprising Seeds Woodland Habitat Science Sleuths Edible Botany Flower Lab Forest Food Chains and Webs Pondering the Prairie Green Buildings Water Quality Ecosystems and Plant Adaptations Green Buildings Water Quality Photosynthesis Lab

3–5

6–8

9 – 12

Spring 4/23-6/8/12

Early Fall 9/10-10/12/12

Self-Guided Field Trips

Guided Student Field Trips

Year-round Monday through Friday

Guided programs are led by trained facilitators who will engage your students with hands-on activities to learn about plants and habitats found at the Garden. Field trips include outdoor exploration activities, so please dress for the weather.

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/ctl/fieldtrips for more detailed grade-specific program descriptions, applicable state standards, and to schedule your visit.

9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. $30 per classroom (maximum 30 students); no additional parking fee required Self-guided field trips allow students to explore while you lead them through the Garden. Register in advance and Garden staff will be happy to discuss areas suited for any curricular topic, and distance to gardens.

Self-Guided Activity Backpacks Year-round Monday through Friday $10 per class Self-guided activity backpacks provide hands-on activities for teachers to lead while visiting the Sensory Garden, Malott Japanese Garden, and McDonald Woods. Each backpack includes all supplies for the activities for a group of 30 and can be checked out for either the morning (9 a.m. to noon) or the afternoon (12:30 to 3:30 p.m.).

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/ctl/fieldtrips/ selfguide.php for more information.

Outreach Programs November 26 – December 14 Tuesday and Thursday $120 per class (maximum 30 students) $100 for each additional class on the same day Schools located more than 20 miles from the Chicago Botanic Garden will be charged a $50 mileage fee.

Enrich your curriculum and have the Chicago Botanic Garden come to you! Choose from a variety of programs that feature plant topics appropriate for specific grade levels. All programs support Illinois Science Standards, include a planting for each student, and plants brought from the Garden to study.

Late Fall 10/15-11/9/12

Holiday 11/26-12/14/12

2012 – 13 Guided Field Trips Registration for Fall 2012 programs will begin in June. Fall through winter programs cost $120 per class of up to 30 students. Available times and dates vary with the program.

Guided Program, PreK $120 per class

Spring program costs listed are for a class of 30 students; available dates and times vary with the program.

Available 9:30 –11 a.m. or 10 –11:30 a.m.

Spring 2012

Discovering Plants

Science Sleuths for Grades K – 5 Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – noon A 1:5 ratio of chaperones to students is required for K – 2 and a 1:7 ratio is required for grades 3 – 5. $100 per class of 30 students Students will be immersed in hands-on adventures relating to plants and their role in the ecosystem.

Discovery stations in diverse Garden areas facilitate an exciting outdoor, garden-based experience with plants and the environment.

The maximum number of children is 25, and a 1:5 ratio of chaperones to students is required.

Early Fall and Late Fall Students will become junior botanists as they learn about the roles of plant parts. To experience plant parts in action, students will explore the new Grunsfeld Children’s Growing Garden. Students will pot a plant to take home.

Guided Programs, PreK – 2 $120 per class Available Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – noon A 1:5 ratio of chaperones to students is required.

Green Buildings for Grades 6 – 12

Trees and Trains

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. – noon

Holiday season

A 1:10 ratio of chaperones to students is required for older grades.

Learn how to identify evergreen tree families by touch and sight. Learn about their special adaptations to the change in seasons. Visit the enchanting Wonderland Express exhibition to see the trees and trains. Students will take home a special holiday craft.

$115 per class of 30 students Visit the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center to learn about the state-of-the-art conservation features of this remarkable building.

Grades 6 through 8 will investigate the Rainwater Glen and build a model to test which materials are best for water conservation. Grades 9 through 12 will experiment with different building materials to learn about green roofs.

Teacher & Student Programs

School Field Trips at a Glance

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/ctl/outreach for more information.

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Guided Programs, K – 2

Pondering the Prairie

$120 per class Available Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – noon A 1:5 ratio of chaperones to students is required.

Early Fall

Surprising Seeds Early Fall, Late Fall, and Holiday What is inside a seed? As junior botanists, students learn about seed parts and how they work together to produce a new plant. Students will pot a seed to take home and will also look for seeds in the Garden.

Garden Groceries Early Fall Students will discover the relationship between plant parts and the foods we eat. A Garden exploration to study living examples that are in season is included.

Students pot an edible plant to take home.

Woodland Habitats Early Fall and Late Fall Students will learn about woodland habitats and survey the Garden’s woodland. They will use their senses and will record their observations in a field book. Woodland programs take place outdoors in McDonald Woods.

Students explore the prairie, focusing on plant adaptations and ecosystem interactions by comparing two prairie types. Prairie programs take place outdoors in the Dixon Prairie.

Forest Food Chains and Webs Early Fall and Late Fall

There is more to life in the garden than just plants.

Come see the Garden through insect eyes, learn about insect characteristics, and observe unique relationships between plants and insects. Students will pot a plant to take home.

Guided Programs, 3 – 5 $120 per class Available Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – noon A 1:7 ratio of chaperones to students is required.

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Spring: April 23 through June 8 Tuesdays and Thursdays 30 minutes $80 classroom (maximum 30 students) A 1:7 ratio of chaperones to students is required.

Explore the Garden with an expert. Tours allow students to explore one garden in more depth. Choose from one of the following: English Walled Garden, Greenhouse (select one), Malott Japanese Garden, or the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center.

Guided Programs, 6 – 8

School Tram Tours

$120 per class Available Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – noon A 1:10 ratio of chaperones to students is required.

April 23 through October 26 $2.50 per person Grades PreK, K – 2, or 3 – 6 30 minutes

Water Quality Early Fall Students will learn about the aquatic ecosystem by collecting and testing water samples, identifying organisms that indicate water quality, and conducting a chemical assessment. Please prepare your students to be outside.

Ecosystems and Plant Adaptations Early Fall, Late Fall, and Holiday How do plants fit their place? Discover how plants have adapted to abiotic factors in an ecosystem.

Student investigations include learning about the unique abiotic conditions that define Illinois and many of the ecosystems of the world.

Guided Programs, 9 – 12 $120 per class Available Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – noon A 1:10 ratio of chaperones to students is required.

Early Fall, Late Fall, and Holiday

Water Quality

Why do plants make flowers? As junior botanists, students learn about flower parts and how flowers, with pollinators’ help, produce seeds. Students will pot a flower seed to take home and will also look for flowers in the Garden.

Early Fall

New! Edible Botany

Guided Walking Tours

Students find evidence of food chains and food webs throughout the woodlands, and learn about common woodland trees. They record their observations in a field journal. Woodland programs take place outdoors in McDonald Woods.

Insect Investigations Early Fall

Additional Field Trip Experiences

Students will learn about the aquatic ecosystem by collecting and testing water samples, identifying organisms that indicate water quality, and conducting a chemical assessment. Please prepare your students to be outside.

Early Fall

Photosynthesis Lab

How are plant parts and their functions related to the foods we eat? A Garden exploration to study living examples that are in season is included. Students pot an edible plant to take home.

Late Fall and Holiday

Embark on a delightful journey around the Garden.

Your tram tour guide will show you things you might not notice on your own and will invite you to search for clues to nature’s secrets.

Grades 7 – 12 35 minutes Climb aboard for a narrated tram tour around the 2.6-mile perimeter of the Garden. Your tour guide will present highlights and history of this living museum, and will share information about our research projects and conservation efforts.

Model Railroad Garden May 13 through October 28 $3 per person Guide your students around our popular model railroad exhibition, where 7,500 square feet of miniature gardens and unique settings delight students and chaperones alike. Visit www. chicagobotanic.org/railroad for more information.

Wonderland Express November 23, 2012 – January 6, 2013 $3 per person Visit an enchanting winter wonderland with twinkling lights and a magical indoor train. Model trains travel over bridges, under trestles, past waterfalls, and through more than 80 miniature versions of Chicago landmarks. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/wonderland for more information about Wonderland Express.

Students will explore photosynthesis, investigating how and where it takes place, how plants obtain the materials necessary for it to occur, and its products.

Students will use scientific equipment to measure gas exchange in plants.

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Community Outreach Great Summer Science Experiences for Chicago Public School Students Science First

Science First is a free four-week summer program for CPS students currently in grades 7 through 9. While enjoying hands-on, nature-based science activities, indoor and outdoor investigations, and exposure to real scientists who work at the Garden, students improve their understanding of the scientific method and careers in science. Transportation and free lunch are provided. CPS teachers are encouraged to share registration materials with promising students. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/sciencefirst for more information. The summer 2012 program is filled; applications for summer 2013 will be due in April.

College First

College First is an eight-week internship and field ecology course for CPS students entering their junior or senior year in fall. Students get paid and earn college credit while studying field ecology, conducting a research project, and working with scientists at the Garden. Students meet monthly during the school year to learn more about preparing for college. Transportation is provided. CPS teachers are encouraged to share registration materials with promising students. Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/ collegefirst for more information. The summer 2012 program is filled; applications for summer 2013 will be due in April.

Science First and College First are made possible by the generous support of Discover Financial Services, Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, Trillium Foundation, Sheridan Foundation, Motorola Solutions Foundation, ITW, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Leo S. Guthman Fund, Harold M. and Adeline S. Morrison Family Foundation, W.P. & H.B. White Foundation, Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust, and the Stiles-Levy Family Fund.

Real-World Science Investigations in the Classroom Project BudBurst

Join students and communities from across the country in collecting plant life-cycle data and entering it into our user-friendly database. Details, curriculum materials for grades K through 12, and data from past years are available at www.budburst.org.

Organic Farming for Youth Green Youth Farm

Each year, up to 70 students ages 13 to 18 work from mid-May through mid-October at four sites, earning their summer pay the old-fashioned way. The Green Youth Farm program offers students the opportunity to learn all aspects of organic farming. By the end of the season, participants have learned how to work together as a team, gained valuable job skills, discovered a whole new way to look at the food they eat, and grown their support system. Students from Waukegan High School, North Chicago Community High School, North Lawndale College Prep, Manley Career Academy, Farragut High School, and Dyett High School in Chicago are eligible to participate. The program also includes Jr. Green Youth Farm, which serves middle-school students and is located at Reavis Elementary School. The Jr. Green Youth Farm of Reavis School is conducted in collaboration with Elev8 and Quad Cities Development Corporation (QCDC).

Visit www.chicagobotanic.org/greenyouthfarm for more information.

Major support for Green Youth Farm is provided by an anonymous donor, After School Matters, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation, The Grainger Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, McKenna Foundation, Sheridan Foundation, and the Steans Family Foundation.

Cultivating Health and Well-being Horticultural Therapy

Since 1977, the Garden’s Horticultural Therapy Services Program has supported the establishment of horticultural therapy programs at healthcare and human service agencies serving schools, VA hospitals, people with disabilities, and older adults in the Chicago region. The program serves as a primary regional, national, and international resource for information while offering a full range of professional training opportunities. Also available are consulting services in barrier-free greenhouse and enabling garden design, sensory landscaping, and horticultural therapy program planning. Visit www.chicagobotanic. org/therapy for more information.

Horticultural Therapy is supported by an endowment from the Buehler Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Albers/Kuhn Family Foundation, Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Tawani Foundation, and the Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation, as well as endowments established by the estate of Florence Rantz, the Kenilworth Garden Club, the Julien H. Collins and Bertha M. Collins Fund, and the Helen and Maurice Weigle Fund at The Chicago Community Trust.

Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, the J.R. Albert Foundation, Alvin H. Baum Family Fund, The Crown Family, Charter One Foundation, George and Amanda Hanley Foundation, Kaplan Foundation Fund/Carol and Ed Kaplan, Walter S. Mander Foundation, Midwest Foods, Northern Trust, SARE-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, Starbucks Foundation, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Chicago Department of Family and Support Services.

Also contributing to Green Youth Farm are the Albers/Kuhn Family Foundation, Laurance Armour Memorial Trust at The Chicago Community Trust, Baxter International Inc., Janice Becker, Benefit Magic, LLC in honor of Robert F. Finke, The Comcast Care Foundation, ComEd, Dr. Scholl Foundation, Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation, ITW, Erica C. Meyer Charitable Fund of the Merrill Lynch Community Charitable Fund of The Chicago Community Foundation, Harold M. and Adeline S. Morrison Family Foundation, North Shore Garden Club, NorthShore University HealthSystem, NeighborSpace, Kathy Richland Pick, Rotary Club of Deerfield, UnitedHealthcare of Illinois, Madeleine P. Plonsker, and individual contributors to Woman’s Board All Aboard!

Project BudBurst is supported by an anonymous donor.

Teachers and students use real science tools to measure the impact of climate change on plants.

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Teacher & Student Programs Students ages 13 to 18 tend an organic garden all summer, reaping the harvest of vegetables as well as valuable job skills.

Windy City Harvest Offers Positive Change, Future Careers Windy City Harvest

Windy City Harvest trains adults in sustainable horticulture and urban agriculture. Both are dimensions of the urban greening and healthy, affordable, local food movements to which the Chicago Botanic Garden has an institutional commitment.

Certificate Training The cornerstone of Windy City Harvest is a nine-month college credit certificate in organic vegetable production that enrolls 15 to 20 students annually through the City Colleges of Chicago. Delivered by Garden staff at the Arturo Velasquez Institute, a Daley College campus, Windy City Harvest trains students in best practices for year-round growing and sales of high-value vegetables, and offers a paid three-month internship. Graduates are now working in a range of full-time and seasonal jobs in the local horticulture and urban agriculture industry. Visit www. chicagobotanic.org/windycityharvest for more information.

Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp Windy City Harvest has been active at the Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp (CCBC) since 2009 with a garden program on a one-acre farm within its grounds. An alternative-sentencing facility for nonviolent young

male offenders, the CCBC offers approximately 70 young inmates the chance to grow, maintain, and learn about organic vegetable production and basic environmental concepts. The vegetables are used in the camp’s mess hall and donated to local food pantries. Following the program’s initial success, the Garden received funding to establish a compost operation on adjacent land, where CCBC food scraps and garden waste create high-quality compost for expanding the farm. Program graduates are now employed at the compost operation and at the Chicago Botanic Garden as landscape crew.

Native Seed Garden This project, another initiative of Windy City Harvest in collaboration with the Garden’s plant scientists, will test whether native seed is a viable production crop for urban farmers. While employing Windy City Harvest students and CCBC graduates, the Native Seed Garden project will grow Midwest prairie species that are becoming increasingly rare due to habitat loss and deterioration. The combined expertise of the Garden’s native seed scientists and Windy City Harvest educators and trainers offers the possibility of an exciting new angle on urban farming. The first site is in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood and was made possible by a collaboration among Commissioner John P. Daley, Alderman James A. Balcer, the Chicago Botanic Garden, Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp, and Archeworks, which designed the garden’s layout.

Major funding for Windy City Harvest is provided by anonymous donors, the City of Chicago Department of Family and Support Services, Cook County Environmental Control Department, Kraft Foods, Inc., Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Polk Bros. Foundation, SARE-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, and United States Department of Agriculture NIFA. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, Alvin H. Baum Family Fund, The Crown Family, George and Amanda Hanley Foundation, Midwest Foods, and Steans Family Foundation. Also contributing to Windy City Harvest are Baxter International Inc., Janice Becker, Commonwealth Edison Company, Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation, ITW, Erica C. Meyer Charitable Fund of the Merrill Lynch Community Charitable Fund of The Chicago Community Foundation, NeighborSpace, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Dr. Scholl Foundation, and individual contributors to Woman’s Board All Aboard!

The following foundations and corporations support all education and community programs: The Helen V. Froehlich Foundation, The Brinson Foundation, HSBC – North America, Kemper Educational, and Charitable Fund and Sterling Partners.

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Antiques This Season & Garden in the Garden Fair

This season in the Garden Kris Jarantoski, executive vice president and director Summer announces itself at the Chicago Botanic Garden as lilacs, deutzia, and weigelas fade, and roses, catmint, fringe trees, flowering onions, and daylilies begin to flower. Old-fashioned shrub roses begin to flower before many of the modern hybrids; they can be seen behind the Krasberg Rose Garden arbor.

The Garden’s horticultural research program not only evaluates plants but creates new hybrids and introduces them to the public. I’m happy to report that three new plants introduced through the Chicagoland Grows® Plant Introduction Program will be available at A Bloomin’ Festival: Tidal Pool prostrate speedwell (Veronica ‘Tidal Pool’), Prince Charming Solomon’s seal (Polyganatum ‘Prince Charming’), and Burgundy Fireworks coneflower (Echinacea ‘Burgundy Fireworks’). They will look beautiful in your landscape. Visit www.chicagolandgrows.org for more information; photos are on page 7.

More than 66,000 summer annuals will be planted out this summer. Watch for a blue-and-yellow composition of flowers in part combining Marguerite daisy (Argyranthemum ‘Butterfly’), black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), and plumbago (Plumbago ‘Royal Cape’) at the Lake Cook entrance; bold red castor bean (Ricinus communis ‘Carmencita Red’) in the Circle Garden; and lime-green elephant’s ear (Alocasia) and Marguerite sweet potato vine (Ipomoea ‘Marguerite’), plus rose-colored echeveria (Echeveria), light-blue plumbago, and yellow kangaroo paws (Anigozanthos ‘Bush Dawn’) in the Crescent Garden.

More than 250,000 plants move through our plant production area each year to serve the Garden’s many displays and programs. Right now, thousands of chrysanthemums, asters, and other flowers are growing in production for planting out this September. When the greenhouses and nursery were first built, the Garden had one display garden and 100,000 plants in its collections; now it has 24 display gardens and more than 2.5 million plants in its collections.

As the plant production facilities have aged, the Garden’s needs have outpaced growing capacity. Exciting new plans are taking shape for an innovative Plant Production Greenhouses and Nursery facility that will expand capacity and support research (see article on page 26). Key to this planning have been Brian Clark, manager of Plant Production, and his staff. Brian joined the Garden in 1979, and he has seen enormous changes take place over the years. As a true plantsman, Brian’s greatest satisfactions have been producing the most perfect plants he can and making the facilities function as productively as possible as the Garden’s displays and programs have multiplied over its 40-year history.

Thank you, Brian!

After a full season of enjoyment, you’ll know summer is coming to an end when you see asters, Japanese anemones, and goldenrod throughout the Garden. Time to anticipate a glorious fall at the Garden.

The Circle Garden, named for the shape of its boundary, showcases annuals and features symmetrical garden beds, straight paths, and a central fountain.

The garden’s informality can be seen in the adventurous combinations of color, texture, and height, and the way plants spill into walkways at the height of the growing season. In this photo, the Circle Garden highlights oranges, yellows, and shades of green at the height of summer.

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For more information, please visit Keep Growing online. www.keepgrowing.com

The Chicago Botanic Garden is one of the treasures of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.

Butterflies & Blooms See the new butterfly exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden on the lawn of the new Learning Campus.

Open June 2 through Labor Day. Fee applies.

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