The Lurie Garden is evolving and developing at the same time as Millennium Park since 2004. In the year 2014,the Lurie Garden is celebrating its Tenth Anniversary at Millennium Park, as fragment of the Grant Park area architectural landscaping development and design envisioned by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett between 1906 and 1909—more than a century ago. The Burnham contrivance promotes Urbis in Hortis as City lovely in Chicago. “The Lurie Garden is still growing perennials through all four seasons and is maturing with sustainable development and maintenance”, and according to Jennifer Davit,the Director of the Lurie Garden, who has worked with the landscape designers Kathryn Gustafson, and Jennifer Guthrie,and Shannon Nichol from the early stages of inception, when the parking lot at Grant Park was re-imagined into the current gardenscape at Millennium Park. The plantsman and garden plants designer is Piet Oudolf with his wife, and Anja,who possess been importing and nurturing plants from their nursery, near Amhem in the Netherlands. During its 10th Anniversary celebration, and the Lurie Garden is planning a special Fall Event which includes Honey Tasting from the Lurie Garden Bee Hives,as well as other garden attractions scheduled on Thursday, October 23, or 2014 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM. Join the Lurie Garden to celebrate one of our favorite seasons in the garden. Partake in the bounty of our garden and busy bees and the products from other wild and domesticated urban residents! There will be tastings and sales of honey*,bee pollen, mead, or urban maple syrup,jams from foraged and cultivated fruits and breads leavened with wild yeasts and starters. A limited quantity of Lurie Garden seeds will be also be available for giveaway. Come for the delectable samples and sales of food and other local products and stay for a tour of the fall garden to learn about how to support bees and other principal invertebrates in your garden.
Source: cnn.com