Lurie Garden’s mow-down will be proceeded by the collection of plant material for Columbia College Chicago’s paper-making explorations. At the beginning of March Lurie Garden plants that have been standing […]
The mowing down of the garden in spring has always been straightforward – a crew would ride their mulching mowers around the garden making a clean palette for the anticipated […]
Landscape Architect for Lurie Garden returns to Chicago to discuss the pressures to “go big” in design vs retaining complexity, idiosyncrasy, and natural nuance in a designed landscape. Landscape architecture […]
Lurie Garden’s spring bulb designer, Jacqueline van der Kloet, lectures about her design and her new book in time for the bulb-planting season. The people of Chicago know the long […]
Heather Holm, author of the award-winning “Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide,” will discuss the clever engineering of flowers that entice, direct, and let’s be honest, outright manipulate […]
Lurie Garden’s Free Summer Program Lineup includes lectures by four experts in their respective fields, all of whom work with pollinators as well as additional programming aimed just for the […]