Photo/Illustration: Michelle Gervais
This garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden has it all: gorgeous, meandering brick pathways, a classic teak bench, a refreshing and beautiful fountain, and the perfect mix of formality and late-summer lushness in its plantings. It doesn’t get much better than this. We’ll finish off this week and start off next week with more scenes from the CBG. Stay tuned.
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A magnicent garden but unfortunately the camera's auto-fucus zeroed in on the briteness of the water (like shooting into the sun) causing everything else to be out of focus. Next time use the zoom feature to zero in on just the fountain framed by a minimum of plantings. Hopefully compositions of individual specimens will be forthcoming.
What a beautiful combination of formal, clipped hedges with lush abundance of the late season flowering plants. love it!
Looks ok to me, quite lovely, really.
Visitors to Chicago should know that you would need a car to
get to this incredible garden north of city center and should plan to spend the better part of a day when there. You can take a trolley ride around the property to get the overview, including prairie land, so it stands to reason that a site of this size this can't be downtown. Fortunately, as "Fine
Gardening" has pointed out, many other fine gardens are available for the fly-in tourist.
I can't resist commenting again about Chicago. The Botanical Garden is so special all throughout the year. I think winter and the holidays is about my favorite. It's really worth a visit! I can't wait to see next week's pictures.
Contrary to what tractor1 wrote: I like the brightness of the water and if I were to be there, then the water would be what would draw my attention first. Personally, I really like the garden portion off in the far left -- lots of color and texture, which is present in the entire photo, actually.
We don't live in Chicago but we visit this botanical garden whenever we can: it is beautifully designed and imaginatively planted. And for those who get hungry looking at gardens,the dining room is outstanding; we usually arrive in time for breakfast, wander all morning in the gardens, and top off our visit with lunch.
The CBG is such a treasure. It is filled with so many beautiful gardens, each an inspiration to gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Thanks...
This is absolutely lovely,wish i could visit.
Late summer/early fall is my favorite time of year in the garden. There is something relaxing about the lushness turning into spent flowers and fading greenery.
@tractor1: I would love to see your gardening blog! Please post a link for us here so that we may all see how perfectly composed the pics are of your superior greenspace.
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