Thanks,
HJ
Naperville

Rosalind Creasy began her horticulture career in the 1970s as a landscape designer and restaurant consultant. Her book, The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, hailed by The Wall Street Journal as the best garden book of 1982, will be released in an updated version in late Spring 2010. Join with us for this incredible opportunity to hear from Roz about her passion.

Register online or for more information, call 630-719-2468.

ROSALIND CREASY: THE BEST IDEAS FROM 30 YEARS IN THE LOCAL ORGANIC FOOD MOVEMENT
Rosalind Creasy, Author and Landscape Designer
Long before you saw red chard in containers, Ros Creasy was researching and writing her first book Edible Landscaping. Ros shares her global perspective on conservation, lifestyles, sustainable landscaping and, of course, great food.
Thornhill Education Center
Sunday, March 28 / 2–4-pm
Limit 100 $46 (non-members $54) – HL 300

CONNECTED TO THE EARTH: A CELEBRATION DINNER WITH SPECIAL GUEST, ROSALIND CREASY
Organized by the Geneva Green Market, Slow Food City’s Edge, Heritage Prairie Market and Classic Fare Catering
In the tradition of Ros Creasy’s approach to conservation and healthy food, local organic markets and chefs come together to put on a delicious early spring feast. The evening includes a booklet of recipes with local sources and bibliography. Cash bar available.
Ginkgo Restaurant
Sunday, March 28 / 5-8 pm
Limit 100 $50 – HL310

GARDEN DESIGN ON A DIME: QUICK SOLUTIONS FOR COMMON PROBLEMS
Karla Lynch, Manager of Horticulture Education, The Morton Arboretum
Solve common design problems and perk up garden beds and smaller parts of your property without developing an entire landscape plan. Preparation materials will be sent to registrants.
Thornhill Education Center
3 Thursdays: March 11, 18, 25 / 1–3:30 pm
$104 (non-members $120) Limit 16 – HL910

GROWING WOODY PLANTS OF THE WORLD
Mark Zampardo, Horticulturist and Author
Prepare hardwood cuttings and grafts from plants growing in the Morton collections. Students will keep a “collection and propagation” journal. The course meets both indoors and outdoors.
Research Center
3 Wednesdays: March 3, 10, 17 / 10 am-1 pm
$128 (non-members $152) Limit 20 – HL220

INSECTS AND DISEASES OF WOODY LANDSCAPE PLANTS
Donna Danielson, Plant Clinic Assistant, The Morton Arboretum
Learn symptoms and methods of control for the most common pests in our landscapes. This class includes lecture, lab work and a field trip.
Thornhill Education Center
Saturday, March 27 / 1-4 pm
$163 (non-members $198) Limit 16 – HL422

Imagine a legendary artist, perhaps Monet, designing your garden. What incredible beauty would result! Get ready for spring at our annual get-together with gardeners, plant people and designers from around the country. Check out the numerous presentations and concurrent sessions, plus a daily Speaker’s Reception where you will have more time with our presenters.

March 5-7, The Morton Arboretum hosts its 17^th annual Midwest Gardening Symposium. “This year’s theme focuses more on the garden as an artistic expression of the owner,” says Karla Lynch, Arboretum Manager of Horticulture Education. “We look at how to set up your space and select appropriate plants that support the flow of the garden.”

Register for one or two days of educational sessions and/or Sunday’s tour and workshop. Costs range from $85-$256 depending on day, presentation and tour.

Register online or, for more information,  call 630-719-2468.

The symposium features 20 presentations by national and local experts. The symposium is customizable to the needs of the individual gardener. More sessions than ever before will allow gardeners at all levels to learn about design, garden care, plant selection – or a little of all! Highlights include:

* Landscape designer and author Gordon Hayward, Friday’s opening speaker, presents Art as Inspiration for Garden Design. He will show how to celebrate the visual language garden designers share with painters and artists such as Cezanne, Monet and Matisse. By looking at fine paintings, learn how you can choose your garden style and take home a new understanding of how to bring it all together.

* In Let Art Inspire Your Garden: A Tour and Workshop, you will visit the Chicago Art Institute with Hayward to observe paintings that illustrate the principles of art composition. Then, leave downtown via train and return to the Arboretum for a guided walk and slide presentation that will illustrate the design concepts from artwork observed.

* Wisconsin nurseryman, poet and plant propagator, Mike Yanny shows Saturday’s attendees how to have fun discovering the latest tree and shrub selections in Great Woody Plants for Discerning Gardeners. Always on the lookout for natives and exotic plants that can bring something new and special to a landscape, Yanny will share his observations and recommendations for plants that can fill important niches in today’s smaller and more sustainable gardens.

Other presentations include:

1. Landscape designer Andrea Green who will introduce ways to create a rain garden that is beautifully unified with a more traditional and managed garden style.

2. Abbie Rea, Arboretum Assistant Manager of Horticulture, will help participants gain a better understanding of certain plants’ design characteristics in Creating Beautiful Borders.”

3. Research Librarian Rita Hassert will team up with landscape designer, Laverne Bohlin, to lead a unique design adventure during Garden History and Style: An Overview in Books and Pictures.

4. Donna Danielson, MortonArboretum Plant Clinic Assistant, will provide a list of do’s and don’ts with Plants You Love to Hate – A Plant Clinic Perspective.

5. Arboretum Head of Collections and Curator Kunso Kim will deliver a talk on his favorite selections from the Dwarf Conifer Collection.

6. Kris Bachtell, Vice President of Collections and Facilities, will provide a glimpse of  the future by looking at trees and other plants in the trade or under evaluation through Chicagoland Grows, a unique partnership involving the Arboretum and others that introduces regionally appropriate plant cultivars.

Arboretum experts spent all spring, summer, fall and winter carefully selecting 30 extraordinary plants that will thrive and flourish in your home garden or landscape.

Browse through our catalog to find the perfect plants for you. You’ll find trees, shrubs, grasses, vines and perennials.

Orders accepted February 9-April 12. You must be a member to place an order.

Plant Pick-Up
Plant orders are reserved and may be picked up during Arbor Day weekend:

Arbor Day, Friday, April 30
or Saturday, May 1
9 am – 4 pm

First, you have to find the drafts. At night, ask a helper to stand outside while you run a flashlight around the edges of the doorway you’re checking. If light shines through the cracks, you have a cold-air leak.

You can also tape a tissue to a wire hanger and hold the hanger at various places around your doorway. If the tissue flutters, air is coming in from outside.

You can use this technique to check for air leaks around windows, electrical outlets, air conditioners and switches.

Next, how do you seal off those drafts? Here’s a low-tech but effective way: Get a heavy blanket out of the closet or chest or purchase flannel or polar fleece. Simply hang over those pesky drafts.

Or use weatherstripping. Three types are easy to install:

1. Foam tape. Works best for  low-traffic doorways because the adhesive wears off with use.

2. Spring metal strips. More durable than adhesive-backed foam.

3. Doorsweeps. A flap at the bottom of the door overhangs to the floor to seal the bottom of the doorway from the drafts.

Source: The Greenest Dollar

Flora! Illuminated is a non-traditional alphabetical exploration of spectacular plant images from the Suzette Morton Davidson Special Collections of the Sterling Morton Library. Snippets of song lyrics, poetry and prose have been selected to accompany these brilliant images to create a memorable experience for visitors. The exhibit highlights rarely seen artwork and rare books, revealing the extraordinary depth of the library’s collections and of the plant world.

Flora! Illuminated Exhibit
Open Tuesday-Saturday, March 12-June 29, 2010
The Sterling Morton Library