Turn outdoor gardens into 'floral rooms'
• The Garden Club of Inverness hosts Pat Hollingsworth of RLS Landscape and Nursery in Elburn for a lecture on creating outdoor gardens into "floral rooms." The meeting is at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, at All Saints Lutheran Church, 630 S. Quentin Road, Palatine. Visitors welcome. Call (847) 255-3775 for more information.
Garden lectures
• Chicago Park District historian Julia Bachrach leads a lecture titled "Visions of Green: Daniel H. Burnham and Jens Jensen's Open Space Plans for Chicago" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, at the Chicago Cultural Center's 5th floor Millennium Park Room, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago. Free, but preregistration requested. Call (312) 742-1168.
• A lecture on the role of herbs in Millennium Park's Lurie Garden is from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Chicago Cultural Center's Garland Room, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago. Free admission. (312) 742-1168.
Fabyan West Forest Preserve
• Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley sponsor "A Winter Walk in the Fabyan Japanese Garden" at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at Route 31 and Fabyan Park, Geneva. Cost is $2 per person. Call (630) 377-6424 for more information.
Garfield Park Conservatory
• The conservatory continues its series of "Sweet Saturdays" showcasing the variety of plants that help create candy ranging from vanilla beans to cinnamon bark. It's at 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, at 300 N. Central Park Ave., Chicago. $2 suggested donation. (312) 742-4786.
Chicago Botanic Garden
• The Illinois Orchid Society has a lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15. No extra charge.
• The Annual Woody Plant Symposium is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20. Cost is $187 (includes morning coffee, lunch, parking and all handouts). Call (847) 835-8261 to register.
• The Midwest chapter of the American Rhododendron Society meets for presentations on "Soil Amendment" by John Honkisz and "Selecting and Growing Rhododendrons in the Midwest" by John Golab at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22. No extra charge. Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake-Cook Road, Glencoe.
Admission is free; parking is $15. (847) 835-5440 or chicagobotanic.org.
- Scott C. Morgan