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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines. [1][2] The ...
Heritage Gardens. Midway Village Museum. Rockford. 42°16′47″N 88°59′10″W / 42.27972°N 88.98611°W / 42.27972; -88.98611. Kaskaskia College Arboretum. Kaskaskia College. Centralia. 38°33′45″N 89°11′34″W / 38.56250°N 89.19278°W / 38.56250; -89.19278. Illinois Central College Arboretum.
The total number of botanical gardens recorded in the United States depends on the criteria used, and is in the range from 296 [4] to 1014. [1] The approximate number of living plant accessions recorded in these botanical gardens — 600,000. [4] The approximate number of taxa in these collections — 90,000 taxa or approximately 40,000 species ...
Lurie Garden is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by GGN ( Gustafson Guthrie Nichol ), Piet Oudolf , and Robert Israel , [ 3 ] it opened on July 16, 2004.
The Lincoln Park Conservatory (1.2 ha / 3 acres) is a conservatory and botanical garden in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois. The conservatory is located at 2391 North Stockton Drive just south of Fullerton Avenue, west of Lake Shore Drive, and part of the Lincoln Park, Chicago community area. [1][2] The Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool and the North ...
A botanical garden or botanic garden[nb 1] is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. [1] It is their mandate as a botanical garden that plants are labelled with their botanical names.
At the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Illinois Steffen leads ecological restoration, management activities, and research studies in the Mary Mix McDonald Woods, a 100-acre oak woodland complex. [2] His expertise is broad, ranging from the identification and natural history of Midwest plants, [3] birds, [3] bats, [4] spiders and other ...
June 30, 1974. Founder. H.I. Gelvin. Open. Daily, daylight hours. The Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden (8 acres (3.2 ha)) is a botanical garden located within the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. It is located just off State Route 47, 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Interstate 74, in Mahomet, Illinois.