What's in Bloom at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Native Habitats - January 1, 2003

Main Gardens Outlying Gardens

The Greenhouses

McDonald Woods
The Woods is dormant, buried under a blanket of fallen leaves. Red twigs of redosier dogwood highlight theWwoods now. Notice the bark of shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) and the smooth blue-gray of American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana).

Prairie and Skokie River
A walk on Prairie paths in January fills the senses with the quiet solitude of prairies finished with their growing season and abundant with golds and browns of grasses. The visible parts of the prairie plants are slowly turning to hay while under the soil deep roots thrive and wait for spring to send up new stems, leaves and flowers.