Chicago Flowers

The Chicago Flowers in the Chicago Botanic Back garden, a living museum, links the city and its suburbs towards the world of nature in all its aspects, from the informal tall grass prairies to the prim formality of boxwood at the English Walled Garden. It's both a haven of beauty and a center for learning. The 385 acres of lagoons and islands were literally carved out of marshy wasteland belonging towards the Cook County Forest Preserve District almost forty years ago and opened to the public under the management from the Chicago Horticultural Society in 1972.

Now Chicago flowers, like a mature garden, the trees, mere saplings when planted, are fully-grown. The buildings have tripled in size, research and production facilities are first-rate, demonstration gardens display each and every kind of landscaping, and its aim to turn out to be the premier botanic back garden within the country is right on target. With the opening of the Buehler Enabling Back garden in 1999, it now leads the country in horticultural therapy with Chicago flowers.

Chicago Flowers

The Chicago Flowers at the Chicago Botanic Back garden is currently the second most-visited garden within the United States having a yearly attendance of 800,000, according to Barbara Whitney Carr, President. "With the Garden's growing number of public activities and programs, we expect the attendance to reach more than 1 million in the next few years," stated Carr.

The Chicago flowers Back garden is heavily visited, not only for its scenic location but for its user-friendly environment as well. A corps of 800 enthusiastic volunteers in each and every department helps to keep the Back garden (consisting of nine islands on 75 acres of water, such as six miles of shoreline) in tiptop shape.

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