Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’ Autumn Magic black chokeberry, leaves and flowers (3.101234)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’ Autumn Magic black chokeberry, leaves and flowers. Stunning close view of a black chokeberry shrub in full bloom. The dark green leaves , held on deep cherry-red stems are well defined, but the multitude of lacy white blooms take your breath away.
Extent: 1 slide
Environmentally Tolerant Shrubs for Use in Northern Illinois (3.114664)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Document
Description:List of shrubs for use in Northern Illinois showing environmental tolerance categories, typical size, sun requirement, recommended pruning and ornamental characteristics.
Extent: 8 pages
Undated: Jeff Mengler to George Ware et al. (3.37832)
Creator: Mengler, Jeff
Type: Document
Description:Arboretum memo from Jeff Mengler to George Ware, Marlin Bowles, Kris Bachtell, Joe Larkin, Marion Hall, and Floyd Swink about the delivery of a report concerning findings from a seed bank study that was part of the Des Plaines River Wetland Demonstration project.
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer campestre (hedge maple), fruit and leaves (3.37240)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer campestre (hedge maple), detail of hanging fruit and leaves, fruit has paired seeds and wings at 180 degree angle
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell, seated portrait (3.4825)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell, seated portrait
Extent: 1 photograph
Acer platanoides ‘Pond’ (Emerald Lustre Norway maple), leaves showing fall color (3.38078)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides ‘Pond’ (Emerald Lustre Norway maple), leaves with brilliant yellow fall color
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell, headshot (3.4826)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell, headshot
Extent: 1 photograph
Undated: George Ware to Dr. Donnelly (3.65042)
Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:A series of documents providing a summary of the primary objectives, outcomes, and itineraries of The Morton Arboretum's China Exchange program which took place during the late summer and fall of 1990.
Extent: 17 sheets
Acer platanoides ‘Pond’ (Emerald Lustre Norway maple), habit, summer (3.38089)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides ‘Pond’ (Emerald Lustre Norway maple), full view of tree with broadly oval shape standing in foreground with other trees at a distance in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Actinidia kolomikta (Maxim. & Rupr.) Maxim. (hardy kiwi), leaves, upper surface (3.82487)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Actinidia kolomikta (Maxim. & Rupr.) Maxim. (hardy kiwi), close-up view of kolomikta leaves, on a trellis. The leaves are dark green, obovate, with a pointed end, and white to blush pink coloration on the leaf ends.
Kris Bachtell planting tree outdoors with helper (3.4823)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell planting tree outdoors with helper
Extent: 1 photograph
Ginkgo biloba (ginkgo), fall (3.36831)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ginkgo biloba (ginkgo), two ginkgo trees side by side near paved path, both trees have yellow and gold fall color leaves
Extent: 1 slide
One of the hybrid parents in the Legacy Elm Improvement Project with Kris Bachtell standing in front for scale (3.96767)
Creator: Shearer, Kim
Type: Photographic image
Description:One of the hybrid parents in the Legacy Elm Improvement Project with Kris Bachtell standing in front for scale. This is also a part of the "Development of Disease-and Pest-Resistant Cultivars in Elm
and Ash" project.
Landscape - Conservation Nursery (3.6556)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Plan
Description:Plan for Landscape Conservation Nursery, broken into 4 blocks
Extent: 1 sheet
Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' (Japanese painted fern), habit (3.104158)
Date: July 1977Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' (Japanese painted fern), habit; woodland landscape with water in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Acer campestre (hedge maple), bark (3.37234)
Date: September 1979Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer campestre (hedge maple), view of bark on the trunk and limbs of tree
Extent: 1 slide
Aralia elata 'Variegata' (Variegated Japanese Aralia), habit (3.100991)
Date: July 1981Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aralia elata 'Variegata' (Variegated Japanese Aralia), beautiful view of full tree, in a deep forest-like garden setting. White margined leaves make the tree appear to shimmer against the darker background trees.
Extent: 1 slide
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1983 (3.113774)
Date: 1983Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1983 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as Bluegrass at Thornhill and a Bonsai Exhibit at Thornhill. It also includes behind the scenes gardening information and how volunteers fight tent caterpillars and mentions a problem with deer eating young plants. It also has a list of classes.
Extent: 5 pages
Grounds workers spacing planting holes (3.61926)
Date: May 1983Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Grounds workers spacing planting holes. Deb Seymour, far left, Kris Bachtell at right.
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell reviewing plant specimen with seated visitor at Plant Clinic desk, Karla Patterson and other visitor listening to Tom Green speak (3.59003)
Date: June 1983Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell reviewing plant specimen with seated visitor at Plant Clinic desk, Karla Patterson and other visitor listening to Tom Green speak
Extent: 1 slide
Visitors at Plant Clinic desk with Karla Patterson and Kris Bachtell (3.58999)
Date: June 1983Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Visitors at Plant Clinic desk with Karla Patterson and Kris Bachtell.
Extent: 1 slide
Karla Patterson and Kris Bachtell speaking to seated visitors at Plant Clinic desk (3.59001)
Date: June 1983Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description: Karla Patterson and Kris Bachtell speaking to seated visitors at Plant Clinic desk
Extent: 1 slide
Karla Patterson and Kris Bachtell helping seated visitors at Plant Clinic desk (3.59002)
Date: June 1983Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description: Karla Patterson and Kris Bachtell helping seated visitors at Plant Clinic desk
Extent: 1 slide
Recommended Shrubby Potentilla Cultivars for the Midwest (3.31516)
Date: December 21 1983 – March 20 1984Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1984 (3.113775)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the Yuletide celebration and a lecture about "The Arboretum and Chicago's Architectural Heritage". The Arboretum also received a grant from the National Park Service of the United States Department of Interior to study the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1984 (3.113776)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a nature photography seminar and a rally against the highway FAP-431 with an associated article explaining the highway would be taking land from the Arboretum. There are also announcements of new employees.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Summer 1984 (3.113777)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as summer concerts with performances by The Medinah Highlanders and Milwaukee's DANCECIRCUS. Taxonomist, Floyd Swink was honored. Lectures included "Exploring Kenya" and "America's Favorite Backyard Birds". Field trips included destinations like the Indiana Dunes and Volo Bog.
Extent: 5 pages
Landscape-conservation nursery [water distribution and drainage plan] (3.5622)
Date: 1984Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Map
Description:Water supply and drainage installations have been added in ms. By Dennis Liby.
Extent: 1 sheet
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1984 (3.113778)
Date: 1984Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1984 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as making maple syrup, the Yuletide Celebration, and the member's chamber music series. Local 12-year-old 4H member Wendy Reed wrote in to show your DuPage County Fair blue ribbon winning project showing conservation and the possible effects of proposed highway FAP 431. A picture shows the construction of the brick walkway that leads visitors to the gardens south of the Visitor Center.
Extent: 5 pages
Sibiraea laevigata: a promising dwarf shrub (3.31508)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1984Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Description:Details on the propagation of the Sibiraea laevigata.
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1985 (3.113782)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1985 Events, News & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a weekend getaway at the arboretum, a seminar on evergreens, and a lecture on plant diseases and human history. Field trips were scheduled for bald eagle watching in Savanna, IL, a Starved Rock State Park trip, and Chicago's Crystal Palaces of Garfield Park and Lincoln Park. Charles C. Haffner, Chairman of the Arboretum's Board of Trustees, received the Sol Feinstone Award, and Charles Lewis, Horticulturalist and Administrator of the Arboretum's Collections Programs, received the "Alice Burlingame Award for Humanitarian Service." The Fragrance Garden opened west of the Thornhill Building and approximately 6,000 people attended the 1984 Fall Festival.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1985 (3.113779)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as several mushroom-related activities, bird walks, and an upcoming field seminar to England discussing gardens and landscapes.
Extent: 5 pages
Education class walking in the woods, led by Kris Bachtell and Karla Patterson (3.4071)
Date: 1985Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Education class walking in the woods, led by Kris Bachtell (left) and Karla Patterson (center)
Extent: 1 photograph
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1985 (3.113780)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as welcoming Spring with classes like Arboretum Spring and The Nature of Spring. There are also several opportunities for birding. Field seminars were offered for Spring in the Southern Appalachians and Isle of Royale Adventure, and field trips were available to Braidwood, IL, Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Nelson Lake Marsh. The Atlantic Richfield Foundation Grant awarded $125,000 to support the project "City Trees For City People".
Events, News, & Classes: Summer 1985 (3.113781)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a bluegrass concert at Thornhill Conference Center by the group Buck's Stove & Range Company. Bugs took center stage with the discussion Creepy Crawlies and Other Curious Things and the children's activity Hidden Worlds. Field trips visited the prairies of Carrol County, Crabtree Nature Center in Barrington, the Volo Bog, Glacier Park in McHenry County, and McKee Marsh in Warrenville.
Extent: 5 pages
Kris Bachtell and Doris Taylor wrapping bare trees in nursery for transplanting (3.59088)
Date: March 1985Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell and Doris Taylor wrapping bare trees in nursery for transplanting
Extent: 1 slide