Lurie Garden
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Lurie Garden at Millennium Park is a year-round must-see destination for Chicago area residents and tourists. The five-acre, four-season garden provides a respite from city life and features a unique combination of spatial structure, plantings and lighting. The garden is designed to pay homage to Chicago’s transformation from flat marshland to an innovative green city, or “Urbs in Horto” (City in a Garden). Rich in symbolism, Lurie Garden offers a varied sensory experience throughout all four seasons, where there’s something new to see every day whether in spring, summer, fall or winter. Plant highlights range from prairie smoke and meadow sage in spring to wood aster and majestic grasses in fall and winter. Summer brings a variety of favorites, including ornamental onion, salvia, hyssop, blazing stars and more.
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Lurie Garden at Millennium Park |
For more information on Lurie Garden, please contact Jennifer Davit, Director and Head Horticulturist, at jennifer.davit@cityofchicago.org or visit www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/lurie_garden.html.
Visit our Lurie Garden photo page.
Press Releases:
- Lurie Garden Has the Buzz on Urban Honeybees - Lurie 7/27/10
- Late-Summer Programs Offer Fun for All Ages at Lurie Garden - Lurie 6/23/10
- Summer’s Peak Programs Offer Variety, Fun at Lurie Garden - Lurie 4/29/10
- Lurie Garden Offers Variety of Seasonal Strolls & Walks - Lurie 4/12/10
- Busy May Days in Chicago’s Lurie Garden - Lurie 3/10/10
- April Showers of Fun and Learning at Lurie Garden - Lurie 3/10/10
- Lurie Garden Fact Sheet - Lurie 3/8/10
- Lurie Garden in Millennium Park - Lurie 3/6/10
- Jennifer Davit Joins Lurie Garden as Director, Head Horticulturist - Lurie 3/2/10
- Workhorses of the Lurie Garden: Spring & Summer Superstars - Lurie 2/15/10
- Enjoy Season’s Colorful Palette of Educational Experiences - Lurie 2/9/10
- The Lurie Garden’s Top Plants for the Month of November - Lurie 8/24/09 (PDF)
- The Lurie Garden’s Top Plants for the Month of October - Lurie 8/24/09 (PDF)
- The Lurie Garden’s Top Plants for the Month of September - Lurie 8/24/09 (PDF)
- The Lurie Garden’s Top Plants for the Month of August - Lurie 8/24/09 (PDF)
- ‘Purposeful Abandon’ ~ A Conversation with Piet Oudolf - Lurie 3/26/09
- Lead Designers, Landscape Architects - Lurie 3/16/09
- The Lurie Garden Plant List - Lurie 3/16/09
- Edward K. Uhlir Biography - Lurie 3/16/10
Portfolio:
2010 Lurie Garden Guide: copy, design and print of 10,000 12-page brochures.

Lurie Garden featured in the July/August 2010 issue of Garden Design Magazine. “Landcape” section, pages 39-41.



