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Echinacea Project featured on TV show

Check out this episode of Prairie Yard & Garden. Stuart was interviewed this summer for this half-hour long public TV show about the Echinacea Project. The episode is called “Prairie Flora: History and Future” and it aired yesterday in western MN and the Dakotas.

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The whole interview and much of the footage is from the main common garden experimental plot.

February reports

It’s been a while flog followers! I hope I haven’t lost any of you with my somewhat infrequent posting. But I’m back and here to tell you that things are moving along at the Chicago Botanic Garden! We’re progressing with the 2013 CG heads, tweaking and improving our protocols as we go in hopes of making things even more efficient. We’ve got a new volunteer in the lab and tomorrow will be the first day of our new intern. There will be more details in more posts to follow (I promise).

In other news: Kory Kolis and Sarah Baker (2013 Team members) gave some nice presentations at their schools this fall about their research with Echinacea. If you recall, Kory examined pollinator efficiency and Sarah looked at flowering phenology in remnants. Check out their work below!

Sarah_Baker_Presentation_FINAL.pdf
KolisPosterFinal4.0.pdf