Celebrate Spring at the Conservatories!
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Showers of Flowers at Garfield Park Conservatory
Join us this spring for Showers of Flowers, the 2026 spring flower show at the Garfield Park Conservatory. “Showers of Flowers” highlights more than 80 hanging baskets that demonstrate vertical possibilities for your green thumb! The baskets will feature trailing vines like ivy and sweet potato, bushy asparagus ferns, and colorful flowers like pansies, petunia, and calibrachoa. Let the beauty rain down upon you while you enjoy ground plantings, including seasonal favorites such as daffodils, tulips, lupines, cymbidium orchids, astilbe, snapdragons, and ranunculus, against a backdrop of azaleas, camellias, and hydrangea.
- DATES: February 14, 2026 - May 10, 2026, Open Wednesdays - Sundays
- HOURS: 10 am - 5 pm Thursday - Sunday, open until 8 pm on Wednesday
- ADDRESS: 300 N. Central Park Ave., Chicago, 60624
- REGISTRATION: Free for Chicago residents! Registration is required.
Jewels of Spring at Lincoln Park Conservatory
The 2026 spring flower show at the Lincoln Park Conservatory, “Jewels of Spring,” highlights the amazing flowers of the Tower of Jewels, also known as Echium or Pride of Madeira. It’s a dramatic, colorful plant which grows flower spikes that are two to three feet tall. Accompanying these gems are a host of our favorite spring beauties, tulips such as ‘Gold Rush’ and ‘Flaming Flag’, ‘4D Violet Ice’ African daisies, Cymbidium Orchids, Delphinium ‘Cobalt Dreams’, and Primula ‘Wild Flame Shades’. All are planted against a backdrop of our treasured camelias, azaleas, peonies, and hydrangeas.
- DATES: February 14, 2026 - May 10, 2026, Open Wednesdays - Sundays
- HOURS: 10 am - 5 pm
- ADDRESS: 2391 North Stockton Drive, Chicago, 60614
- REGISTRATION: Free! Registration is required.