Botanic Garden plant show

How do your houseplants measure up? A good way to find out is toattend Horti-Court, the annual plant contest and sale today throughSunday at the Chicago Botanic Garden, just east of the Edens Expy. onLake-Cook Road in Glencoe.

Plants will be judged in 18 categories, including a separatecategory for professional growers. Other categories include foliageplants, flowering or fruiting plants, hanging plants, trained plants,herbs, succulents, ferns, African violets, orchids and terrariums.There also will be a category for plants grown by those 17 andyounger.

The Horti-Court plants will be on display in the exhibit hall ofthe garden's education center from 9 a.m. to 4 …