Illinois Gardens

Get Garden Help From the Chicago Botanical Garden

Visit us onsite or online: the Chicago Botanic Garden offers its resources to all gardeners.

At the Garden, you can take a course, attend a lecture, buy a gardening book, meet 2.2 million garden plants, or have your mystery plant identified.

Online gardeners can help themselves to all the detailed plant and gardening information we provide to make their own gardens healthy and beautiful.

Online Gardening Illinois' Best Plants Detailed information describes the best plants for your garden. Plant Introductions Learn the latest new plants offered through the Chicagoland Grows Plant Introduction Program. Invasive Plants List Don't plant these! Learn to recognize and remove these least-wanted plants, and what to use instead. Listen to Denise Corkery's Gardening Tips Weekly Podcast A Master Gardener for more than 15 years, Denise Corkery brings the wonders of the plant world to millions of gardeners throughout the Chicago area. Listen to her weekly broadcast that discusses a variety of gardening topics. Monthly Gardening Checklists See what needs to be done in your garden — and when to do it. Plant Profiles Discover worthy plants for your garden. Gardening Techniques From creating a wreath to saving seeds, you'll learn "how-to." Pests & Problems Find out what you need to know, with information from cicadas to the Emerald Ash Borer. FAQs Check out our popular gardening questions- and-answers site.

At the Garden Plant Information Service We answer 31,000 questions each year. Find your answer with one of the options at the left or call the Plant Information Hotline at (847) 835-0972. plantinfo@chicagobotanic.org. What's In Bloom? Which plants are blooming right now? The School of the Chicago Botanic Garden Classes abound for adult and child gardeners of all levels. Members receive discounts. The Library View rare horticultural treasures plus 25,000 gardening books, videos, magazines, and more. Members have check-out privileges. Explore the Garden Plan many visits to see all 23 display gardens plus the 3 natural areas. Plant Collections Locate exactly where all the 2.2 million plants are displayed.