Plant aficionados, wagons in tow, will be first in line for A Bloomin’ Sale, the Midwest’s premier plant sale, which returns to the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18. The Woman’s Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society planned this 42nd annual sale with the theme "Success with the Best." More than 30,000 plants in 900 varieties will be available, including many that are hard to find, easy to grow and reliably hardy.

The Model Railroad Garden: “Landmarks of America” opens for its ninth season at the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, May 10 with new landmarks in Seattle, the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco, including Telegraph Hill. A family favorite, this enchanting outdoor exhibition takes visitors from coast to coast with model trains, miniature representations of America’s best-loved landmarks, and colorful small-scale gardens.

The Young Collectors Committee of the Antiques & Garden Fair gathered recently at the home of Cathy and Michael Busch in Winnetka to view their home and meet its interior designer, Ruthie Sommers. Sommers has been named one of the "Top 25 New Designers" in America by House Beautiful and she ranks among House & Garden's top five in "Best of Design."

Take a magical trip this holiday season to a winter wonderland of twinkling lights, garden-scale trains, miniature Chicago landmarks beautiful horticulture displays, and indoor snowfall. Wonderland Express returns to the Chicago Botanic Garden on Friday, Nov. 23.

The Illinois Orchid Society presents the "Orchid Aloha," a fall mini orchid show and sale with a Hawaiian theme on Saturday and Sunday, October 13-14, at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Everyone who loves these plants can learn something new through displays and lectures at the show.

The Fifth Annual Reindog Parade returns to the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, Dec. 1 with visitors parading their pooches in holiday costume for prizes, awarded by celebrity judges. For four very special hours only, dogs are allowed in the Chicago Botanic Garden.

In honor of the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot, the Chicago North Shore Section of the National Council of Jewish Women will display their annual sukkah display at the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Botanic Garden from Saturday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 7. Families are invited to take part in arts and crafts activities to decorate the sukkah from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30.

An exhibition featuring maps revealing the global travels of plant explorers will be on display in the Lenhardt Library located in the Regenstein Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden from Friday, November 2 through Sunday, February 10, 2008. The Chicago Botanic Garden is one of 25 Chicago area cultural institutions participating in the first citywide Festival of Maps.

Find out ways you can help your suburban neighbors in need by giving from your garden, the store and by volunteering with local organizations at the Daily Herald’s fifth annual Giving Garden Day on Sunday, Sept. 9 in the Regenstein Fruit & Vegetable Garden of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Visitors to the Chicago Botanic Garden will discover unusual forms of mums this fall. They’ll be wowed from the start with groupings of bronze “mum ball” containers outside the Visitor Center, cascading mum hayracks over the bridge to the main island, a sea of 2,100 yellow, orange, bronze and red mums in The Crescent and three shades of red “mum ball” containers under trees lining the Esplanade.

Choose from more than 200 varieties of bulbs and get expert planting advice at the Bulb Bazaar on Saturday, Sept. 29 and Sunday, Sept. 30 at Chicago Botanic Garden. This year, experts and horticulturists will point out “Plants We Love” and a large selection of bulbs for indoor forcing will be available.

An exhibition of books authored by Charles Darwin will be on display in the Lenhardt Library located in the Regenstein Center at the Chicago Botanic Garden through Sunday, October 28, 2007. This exhibit presents the background for his book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection—one of the most influential books in the field of natural sciences.