Have you heard the news? Keeler Gardens has won a grant to build a pollinator habitat! The Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation has awarded us up to $10,000 toward the creation of a native pollinator habitat to provide environmental education opportunities for students, and all community members. We will offer visitors to the habitat an… Continue reading Keeler Gardens Wins Pollinator Habitat Grant
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Discussing Biophilic Design Principles
We spent some time this past week on the east coast getting to know quite a few individuals and groups that are working on ways to incorporate nature into their lives. We also got a lot of really good recommendations, one of which lead us to a detailed article discussing biophilic design. In “The Practice… Continue reading Discussing Biophilic Design Principles
A New Year at Keeler Gardens
Welcome to 2017 This is our first winter as a formal non-profit, Keeler Gardens. Keeler Gardens is all about biophilia so we thought we would introduce ourselves, and the term, here in our first formal blog post of the year. Biophilia is defined as the love of living things or the love of life,… Continue reading A New Year at Keeler Gardens
Garden Walk Preparations at Keeler Gardens
Here’s a sneak peek at preparations for the garden walk on July 16, 2016 at Keeler Gardens. This was filmed on July 2, 2016…
Come Visit Keeler Gardens
GARDEN WALK AT KEELER GARDENS SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2016 10 AM – 2 PM Come take a walk through Keeler Gardens, have a glass of lemonade and a snack, and learn a bit about our teaching garden. We are approximately 1500 square feet of green on a Chicago city lot, offering as much as we can to… Continue reading Come Visit Keeler Gardens
Late Spring and Twilight Tours of Keeler Gardens
Two videos for this post, a late spring tour of the garden and something different, a twilight tour. We took a walk through Keeler Gardens at dusk to capture a different view of the garden, with the focus on beacons in the dark and guest staring fireflies.
Peonies and Roses at Keeler Gardens
Take a tour of the gardens to see the first round of peonies and roses in bloom…
May Flowers at Keeler Gardens
So we are taking a walk through the gardens again. It’s mid-may and we have Ajuga in bloom, tulips making a relatively graceful exit, and the peonies are on their way. You may have seen this video live on Facebook, when we featured the front gardens in bloom. This is the premier of the second… Continue reading May Flowers at Keeler Gardens
The Titan Arum Display at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Here are some more videos and pictures from the Chicago Botanic Garden’s titan arum display. Below, Sprout is blooming with his big burgundy spathe, Alice is in fruit in her special enclosure, and a youngster is leafing out. And now the videos. We showed you the collection of pollen in the previous post, and here are all the stars… Continue reading The Titan Arum Display at the Chicago Botanic Garden
Sprout the Titan Arum at the Chicago Botanic Garden
We recently visited Sprout, the newest star of the Chicago Botanic Garden’s titan arum display. We were fortunate to catch a couple of videos of CBG staff collecting pollen from Sprout’s male flowers. Pollen will be stored, frozen actually, so it can remain viable for about two years, and will be used to pollinate future titan… Continue reading Sprout the Titan Arum at the Chicago Botanic Garden