FALL INDOOR MUM SHOW MAKES A SPECIAL RETURN IN 2008 FOR GARFIELD PARK CONSERVATORY’S 100TH BIRTHDAY
Release Date: 09/26/08
Making a rare bloom this year for the Garfield Park Conservatory’s 100thbirthday, the freeindoor mum flower show, “Mums the Word,”returns for this year only from October 11 through November 9 at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave.
“In honor of the Conservatory’s centennial year, we decided to resurrect the past with this former favorite fall flower show,” said Chicago Park District Conservatory Director Mary Eysenbach. “Just for this year, visitors can enjoy an exhibit that is representative of a more traditional display of mums from the 1920s.”
Conservatory visitors will travel back in time with a re-creation of the indoor chrysanthemum show that was so popular at the Conservatory in the 1920s. Thousands of the traditional “Queen of Fall” flowers, including spider, quill, daisy, brush, anemone, button and daisy mums, will color the show house in shades of yellow, orange, red, pink, lavender and green. Artistically displayed as cascades, hanging baskets, tree forms and several large bush mums, the flowers will mingle with additional plants. The last year the Garfield Park Conservatory exhibited an indoor mum show was in 1999.
In addition to the indoor display, check out the Outdoor Fall Flower Show in the CityGarden, featuring hardy mums, ornamental kales, and other fall botanicals.
This year, each unique flower show and event held at the Garfield Park Conservatory will pay tribute to its long illustrious history, with portions of each show devoted to an all-American selection of hybrids created during a given time period.
The Museumof Botany
As a tribute to the Conservatory’s historic role as Museum of Botany (a name bestowed on the Conservatory by the City of Chicago n 1931), a section of the Show House to will become a botanical museum. This living time capsule will not only display important plants of past decades, but will also address botanical concepts that bring to the forefront the role a conservatory plays in the enduring connection between people and plants. During the indoor and outdoor mum show, the Making of a Hybridwill be on exhibit in the Museumof Botanysection of the Show House.
For more information about events and programs at the Garfield Park Conservatory, call 773-638-1766 or go to www.garfield-conservatory.org.
Directions
Garfield Park Conservatory is located just fifteen minutes west of downtown. From I-290, exit Independence Avenue(3800 west) and travel north. Turn east onto Washington Blvd. Turn north onto Central Park Avenue(3600 west). Our parking lot will be on your left, just before you reach the Conservatory.
Alternatively, take the CTA Green line and exit at Conservatory/Central Park Drive.
- Contact Phone: 312 742 7529