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  2. List of botanical gardens and arboretums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Illinois is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Illinois. [1 ...

  3. Lurie Garden - Wikipedia

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    Lurie Garden is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by GGN ( Gustafson Guthrie Nichol ), Piet Oudolf , and Robert Israel , [ 3 ] it opened on July 16, 2004.

  4. Robert Allerton Park - Wikipedia

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    The Allerton nature preserve is a National Natural Landmark. The Robert Allerton Park is a 1,517-acre (614 ha) park, nature center, and conference center located in the rural Piatt County township of Willow Branch, [2] (T 18 N, R 5 E) near Monticello, Illinois, on the upper Sangamon River.

  5. Garfield Park Conservatory - Wikipedia

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    Garfield Park Conservatory, located in Garfield Park in Chicago, is one of the largest greenhouse conservatories in the United States.Often referred to as "landscape art under glass", the Garfield Park Conservatory occupies approximately 4.5 acres (18,000 m 2) inside and out and contains a number of permanent plant exhibits incorporating specimens from around the world, including some cycads ...

  6. Community gardening in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Crops at the former South Central Farm in Los Angeles, California. A community garden is any piece of land gardened by a group of people. [3] The majority of gardens in community gardening programs are collections of individual garden plots, frequently between 3 m × 3 m (9.8 ft × 9.8 ft) and 6 m × 6 m (20 ft × 20 ft).

  7. Embanking of the tidal Thames - Wikipedia

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    Cattle grazing below high water, Isle of Dogs, 1792 (Robert Dodd, detail: National Maritime Museum) The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a shallow waterway, perhaps five times broader than today, winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between ...

  8. Category:Gardens in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Botanical gardens in Illinois (1 C, 25 P) Z. Zoos in Illinois (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Gardens in Illinois" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 ...

  9. University of Illinois Arboretum - Wikipedia

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    It is located at the intersection of Florida and Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, Illinois, and open daily without charge. The arboretum has been constructed on the university's south campus farmlands. As of 2017, developed sections are as follows: Welcome Garden – an entrance and meeting place. Japan House – tea garden (2002), dry or Zen garden ...