Posts tagged with "chicago botanic garden":

While on vacation last week, I had the pleasure to visit the Chicago Botanic Garden. Coming from California where the summers are long, hot and dry, I especially loved seeing the plants that thrive with regular summer rainfall. Vast plantings of hosta, impatiens, begonias, and ferns, to name a few. A mass planting of hybrid hostas in bloom under white birch trees. Gryphon begonias planted with Divine New Guinea impatiens. I found the extensive vegetable garden and fruit orchard inspiring and full of...