Sensory Garden

There are 18 different "Gardens" within the Chicago Botanic Gardens.  This is the Aquatic

Garden, which will have many water lilies and lotuses later on.  Right now it has spring

flowers.  This gorgeous bed has five types of tulips plus white pansies.

A double pink tulip, which looks like a peony, and Frilled Pink Tulips.

A Frilled Pink Tulip.

Double Pink Peony Tulip and White Pansies.

A pot and dripping fountain with yellow and brown pansies.

A hanging basket with yellow pansies.  The Gardens have many hanging baskets with

a variety of flowers, showing what can be done.

Double White Tulips

A pair of "Quebec  Greggii" pink and yellow tulips.

The Circle Garden has a fountain in the center and is surrounded by purple tulips

edged in white.  A variety of flowering crabapples are in back.

The center of the Circle Garden.  The colorful tulips in back are a "Netherlands Mix."

Purple tulips edged in white.

"Deep Love" pink tulips.  They are very large.  Blue pansies in two shades.

"Queen of the Night" black tulips and beds of purple tulips.

"Netherlands Mix" of tulips were in four large beds.

To the side of the Circle Garden are two smaller "Secret Gardens."  This spring, they

were more beautiful and lush than ever.  They, of course, change with the seasons, but

right now they are filled with Yellow Snapdragons, White Tulips, Blue Poppy Anemones,

Yellow Pansies and Primroses, Pale Blue Daze, and other spring flowers.

White Tulips, Blue Poppy Anemones, and Yellow Snapdragons.

Small Batalin Yellow Tulips and Deep Purple Pansies.

The Secret Garden

White Lupine

"Deep Love" pink tulips in another bed.

"Avalanche White" tulips and  Pink Pansies along the path leading to the Enabling Garden.

The "Enabling Garden" shows how to garden even if you can't bend over or kneel down

on the ground.  All of the beds are raised so you can work them standing up.

Various pansies, Purple Ranunculus, red tulips, orange African daisies, a kale plant,

and others are in this bed.

Blue pansies, white alyssum, orange Moroccan Toadflax, and Orchid Harmony

Poppy Anemones are in this planter.

Tall Pink Stock, "Black Penny" Blue Daze, pansies, ranunculus, and kale.

Little blue Forget-Me-Nots, blue and white pansies, purple ranunculus.
Even in a small area, you can have lots of flowers and color in a raised bed.

Raised beds and large pots make it possible for everyone to grow flowers at home

if they wish.

A corner of a raised bed.

 Pots filled with flowers; they would look nice on a deck or terrace.

Next we head out to the Woodland Path and Sensory Garden.  This bed at the base of

a tree has Blue and Yellow Pansies, Double Orange Tulips, Yellow Daffodils,  Red

Moroccan Toadflax, and Purple Tulips.

Beds line all four side of this courtyard and they have various mixtures of the flowers.

The beginning of the Woodland Path.

Mixed bed of spring flowers.

Double Orange Tulip, Purple Snapdragon, Blue Grape Hyacinth.

Double Orange Tulips, Tall Purple Tulips, Yellow Jonquils, Blue Grape Hyacinths,
Red and Yellow Moroccan Toadflax, and Blue and Yellow Pansies.

Blue Grape Hyacinths, Double Orange Tulips, and Red Moroccan Toadflax.

"Indigo Blue" Forget-Me-Nots in a bed.

A mixture of tulips, anemones, Stock flowers, and vegetables in a bed.

"Orchid Harmony" Poppy Anemones

"Sorbet" White Violas

A visitor in the "Secret Garden."

Two visitors in the Enabling Garden.