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          Noted plantsman and designer Roy Diblik has spent more than 40 years studying, growing, and enjoying plants.

        1. Noted plantsman and designer Roy Diblik has spent more than 40 years studying, growing, and enjoying plants.
        2. · Go to channel · Visiting the Lurie Garden.
        3. Last Friday just finished a Carex planting at the Art Institute of Chicago.
        4. In a few years the garden will be filled with the native thugs: goldenrod (Solidago), asters, Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans), big bluestem .
        5. Seen below: pictures of Roy Diblik's matrix plantings at the.

          6. Last Friday just finished a Carex planting at the Art Institute of Chicago....

          Roy Diblik has no horticulture degree. He is not a landscape architect. He grew up in Berwyn, where yards were tiny patches of turf for playing baseball.

          But over more than 30 years, project by project, plant by plant, Diblik, 57, has become one of the most original, sophisticated and influential plantsmen in the Midwest.

          If you have visited the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park (luriegarden.org), you’ve seen plants he grew from seed.

          If you have been to the Art Institute of Chicago this summer and strolled by the Louis Sullivan Stock Exchange Arch, you’ve seen how he puts plants together. If you’ve gambled at the Grand Victoria Casino in Elgin, you’ve seen a site where he combines native plants in a stylized way.

          If you have visited his Northwind Perennial Farm (north

          windperennialfarm.com) in Burlington, Wis., near Lake Geneva, you have seen a display garden where perennials artfully intermingle, playing against rich stonework, sparked by lively sculpture