Features

Celebrating Chicago!

Is the Windy City America’s Greenest Metropolis?
Since Mayor Richard M. Daley took office in 1989, Chicago has been getting progressively greener. Editor Carolyn Ulrich explores how the city and Chicago Park District are working to make Chicago America’s most beautiful metropolis. Above, spider flower (Cleome) is featured in a mixed border in Grant Park with the city skyline beyond.

• Up on the roof: Not just advocating rooftop plantings, the Mayor has one planted atop City Hall
• City steps up to support the Chicago Flower & Garden Show
• Chicago Park District creates ‘Avant-Gardens’ for all
• The 'green' evolution of Mayor Daley—a timeline

In An Artist’s Hands
This award-winning Chicago garden was sculpted, not just planted.

Salsa in the City
Chicago Chef Rick Bayless gives us a tour of his Mexican-flavored veggie garden.

Going Dutch
Internationally renowned landscape designer Piet Oudolf applies his ‘New Wave’ style to a Lake Geneva estate.

Chicago by Design
A landscape company gets the unique opportunity to rejuvenate a design it planted a generation ago.

Departments

Editor's Letter

What To Do in the Garden
Seasonal Tips 

Calendar of Gardening Events

Q and A

Chicago Botanic Garden Notes
Monarda (Beebalm)

The Beginner’s Garden
Mulch 101: What, When and Why

Indoor Garden
Renovation of the Garfield Park Palm House—Plus Palms for You

The Water Garden
What’s the Rush (or Grass or Sedge)?

The Hands-On Gardener
Flower Arranging for the Rest of Us

Chicagoland Natives
Meet Art and Linda and Their Wildflowers

Wildlife Watch
Hyde Park’s Feral Parakeets

The Man’s Garden
The Famous Wrigley Field Lawn