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    Along a path less traveled at the Chicago Botanic Garden, plants are being evaluated on beauty and brawn

    by Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune Oct 26, 2023 4 minutes
    Fred Spicer, director of the Chicago Botanic Garden, in the Mitsuzo and Kyoko Shida Evaluation Garden on Oct. 4, 2023.

    The dull visual of a long road is interrupted by a gravel footpath that winds back and forth across the pavement, tiny rocks turning to bricks when the path crosses the asphalt. But the eye is drawn to something else: not the trail, but the greenery growing on its fringes.

    Located far away from other attractions at the Chicago Botanic Garden, these plants are being grown in the newest and largest of three gardens. Scientists are evaluating them over the course of several years to determine which ones are best suited to thrive in the Upper Midwest.

    “We grow them for three years, four years, five years. Every day during the growing season, we collect data,” said Fred Spicer, executive vice

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