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| A curving garden wall and planted berm are being created along the western boundary of the Chicago Botanic Garden. The 1.25-mile project featuring grasses, flowers, trees, shrubs and vines will reduce highway noise and block undesirable views within the Garden and add a beautiful new landscape for passing motorists. See photos and find out more. |
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 Evening Island | Lakeside Gardens | Water Gardens Three gardens of beauty, serenity and preeminent design—Evening Island, the Lakeside Gardens and the Water Gardens—have been created for the delight and enjoyment of visitors. These new gardens surround the Garden's central lake and extend gardens into the water in a way never seen before at a botanic garden. These new gardens are yours to discover. |
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See our Garden grow. … The new gardens encircle the Great Basin, the Garden’s central lake, offering ever-changing beauty on land and in the water. This year marks their first flowering, which will highlight hundreds of crab apples in bloom this spring. |
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Evening Island
With spectacular views across the Garden’s lakes, 5-acre Evening Island combines diverse hillside, meadow and woodland gardens. Sweeps of flowering perennials, shrubs and grasses lend grandeur to a landscape, which includes the Butz Memorial Carillon, a sloping lawn, a hillside terrace and a council ring. |
| Lakeside Gardens The Lakeside Gardens curving along the land north of Evening Island showcase flowering trees, shrubs and perennials, with the 7.5-acre body of water acting as a reflecting pool. |
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| Visitors to the SpringBlooms festival will be delighted with the recently renovated Graham Bulb Garden.
Dramatic drifts of 28,000 new bulbs include dozens of types of narcissus, tulips, ornamental onions and lilies. The color show continues from early spring until fall. |
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Gardeners find inspiration at every turn—with smashing container displays, unusual bulbs, underplanted bulbs, begonia ground cover and "double planting" of bulbs to extend bloom. The garden was redesigned by noted landscape architect Doug Hoerr. |
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Among the newest gardens is the Enabling Garden, which encourages gardening for people of all abilities. Beautiful displays highlight accessibility in garden design. Explore easy-does-it tools and plants with sensory appeal. During the growing season, visit the Tool Shed for tools and resources and the discovery carts for informative programs. |
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The Garden Café offers delicious fare from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, as well as outdoor dining in season and evening dining during Celebrations. Freshly made sandwiches, salads, pizzas, paninis and more are highlights. Preview sample menus. The Garden Café also offers take-home recipe cards featuring the vegetable of the month. |
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Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden will enjoy new features in the Children’s Garden, including a pond, a maze and a trellis tunnel.
During the summer, the Children’s Garden at the south end of the Garden offers weeklong camps. |
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