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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Conifers at the Chicago Botanical Gardens

An amazing place to visit -- a must on every conifer lover's list. We spent a few quiet hours rambling through as much of the 400 acres as we could as sundown approached one day last fall. Unfortunately the dwarf conifer area was under renovation.

The mature Japanese garden island was a lesson in design and use of conifers. These mature gracefully sculpted black pines were accented by carefully understoried and mounded shrubs.