Garden Bed Plantings
This summer, hundreds of species of plants are blooming in more than 50 garden beds on North Michigan Avenue. See below for plant descriptions at each of the properties. Take in the magnificence of this urban landscape with a self-guided walking tour of the below summer gardens along The Magnificent Mile. See if you can identify the plants listed! Keep and eye out for new bed descriptions, these are just a few to get you started!
663-669 N. Michigan Avenue
“Tropical Sensation”
Nike, Garmin International
Landscape Concepts Management, Inc.
This garden was inspired by the bright colors in the Croton and the Jamaican flag. Strong lines and colors are used to convey a feeling of the tropical island. These plantings are a combination of formal garden plants, tropical plants, grasses, foliage, vines and annual flowers.
737 N. Michigan Avenue
“A Perfect Backdrop”
Olympia Centre
Landscape Concepts Management, Inc.
These groupings of Colocasia plants, surrounded by lime green Coleus plants, make a perfect backdrop for the bright pink and purple Impatiens. The Colocasia plants are almost black in color with lime green veining which collaborates beautifully with the lime green Coleus’s.
730 N. Michigan Avenue
“The Formal Garden”
Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler
Landscape Concepts Management, Inc.
A formal garden where ferns weave their way down the Avenue creating a space full of beautiful soft colored, textured flowers. Featuring the Kimberly Queen, an upright fern that works beautifully to create the skeleton for this design and showcases the different interplantings of annuals.
840 N. Michigan Avenue
“Blocked Pattern”
US Equities Realty Inc.
Landscape Concepts Management, Inc.
This garden has a blocked pattern where dark green Sanseveria create beds planted with a mix of Caladium and Impatiens plants. The Sanseveria is an upright tropical plant and is the perfect backdrop for the beautiful foliage of the Caladium.
676 N. Michigan Avenue
“Caribbean Oasis”
Omni Chicago Hotel
Clarence Davids & Company
This bed creates a lush tropical feel with large Banana Trees and abundant foliage plants in shades of red and yellow. The vibrant leaves are accented with large drifts of blue and red flowers. The babbling brook is snuggled into the garden with arching Chartruese grass and rambling flowers.
633 N. Michigan Avenue
“Burberry Plaid”
Burberry
Clarence Davids & Company
A plaid is represented in this garden with clipped Boxwood Hedges creating the prominent lines and then filled in with simple white Begonias to create a very clean and elegant look.
626 N. Michigan Avenue
“Woodland Retreat”
Women’s Athletic Club
Clarence Davids & Company
Large drifts of woodland plants, Heuchera and Euphorbia, are punctuated with strong structure plants of Atlas cedar and Phormium “Dark Delight”.