Trust the staff at the Chicago Botanic Garden to create an indoor bulb display as eye-stopping as this summer sweep of white Alliums and willows, which we snapped while visiting the outdoor display gardens as part of Garden Bloggers 2009 Spring Fling last May.
The garden's winter arrangement of pots of "Lemon Lime" Amaryllis underplanted with "Jacob Classic" Hellebore and trailing "Diamond" ivy is dramatic enough to hold its own, even when surrounded by huge photos of classic water gardens.
The massive containers of Amaryllis are shown parading down the CBG's own indoor water feature in the Joseph Regenstein Center, where we had gone to hear garden guru, Dan Pearson, speaking about garden inspiration. This display — located outside the auditorium where Pearson was speaking — proves the folks at the CBG are no slouches themselves when it comes to providing inspiration.
