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Hibiscus growing outside the Lincoln Park Conservatory.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Hibiscus
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Hibiscus growing outside the Lincoln Park Conservatory.
Roadside bloom - daylily
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Daylilies growing outside the Lincoln Park Conservatory ...
Roadside bloom - Columbines
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Columbines growing outside the Lincoln Park Conservatory ...
Cleome / Spider flower
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Shot in the garden attached to the Art Institute ...
Chicago Botanic Garden
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This is the sculpture of Carlos Linnaeus ... the father of Taxonomy. ... in the Chicago Botanic Garden... He is shown reaching eagerly toward the plants in his path with a collector’s enthusiasm. The prominent bird in the sculpture — a golden plover, which can fly for thousands of miles — refers to the many students of Linnaeus who traveled the globe collecting plants for him to name.
Carolus Linnaeus [1701-1778] was a 18th century Swedish botanist who perfected bionomial nomenclature, the universal system of naming plants ... that is still used today. In Linnaeus's system of naming plants, each plant is given a two-part scientific name, a binomial. the first name represents the genus and the second name identifies it's species. A cultivar refers to a variety of plant that does not grow naturally in the wild but was selected and developed for particular characteristics. Each plant also has a common name [nickname], which varies from region to region.
Below are some photographs taken at the Chicago Botanic Garden ...
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Chicago Botanic Garden
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The HUGE Chicago Botanic Garden has more than 25 gardens within it [28 to be precise] ... like the Heritage Garden, English Walled Garden, Rose Garden, Prairie Garden ...
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Bonsai Collection
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Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Rose Garden
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Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
African Iris
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Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
Gooseneck Loosestrife
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Gooseneck Loosestrife ... Lysimachice clethroides ...
Family primrose [Primulaceae]...
Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Turk's Cap Lily
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Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
First time I saw the Turk's Cap Lily, that I had long wished to see ...
Angel Mist Snapdragon
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Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
Water Lily
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Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
Japenese Garden
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Shot in Chicago Botanic Garden ... July 11, 2007.
Name ???
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One of the most unusual flowers that i've seen ... the flowers come out from the center of the leaves ...
Need help with the name???
Shot in the "Prairie Garden" of the "Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum" ... in May, 2007.
Lurie Garden, Millennium Park
Below are some photographs taken at Lurie Garden in the Millennium Park ... one of my favourite places in downtown Chicago ... apart from the "Orchid House" at Lincoln Park Conservatory ... and the "Butterfly Haven", at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
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Daylily "Chicago Apache"
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Shot in the Lurie Garden ... in July, 2007.
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Queen of the Prairie
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Shot in Lurie Garden ... in July, 2007.
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Calamint
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Shot in Lurie Garden ... in July, 2007.
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Echinacea
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Shot at Lurie Garden ... July, 2007.
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