The West Chicago Garden Club

Thanks for your generous response to our requests for supplies (bags and pots), plants and help! You are a great group of folks to work with!  By the time you are reading this, we will be well on our way through the digging and potting of garden grown perennials.  Two of the four planned perennial potting sessions will be done but we can’t loose steam midway through. We still need your help! You can join the crew on Saturday April 25, 9-12 or Sunday, May 3, 1-4, and have loads of fun preparing plants for the sale!  Billie, 630-231-1791, can provide details. Guaranteed, good time will be had by all!

Has the spring cleanup in the Kruse Garden ever been complete by April 4? 

We set the bar pretty high by getting it done that early this year!  Maybe back in the day when the Kruse family lovingly tended the garden it got that kind of attention but in recent times it has often not been top on the mile high stack of the spring  ‘to do’ list.  Angie and Tom spent several mornings over there snipping and raking and the grand finale featured the Votava’s lawn crew with blowers, lots of energy and strength, and a truck to haul away loads of junk…and there was a lot!  We couldn’t have done it without them!  

The gardens look terrific!  A smattering of blue and yellow (grape hyacinths and daffodils) dot the back garden while eye-popping green creeps to cover the ground everywhere.  It is so fresh, clean and neat!  The numerous shrubs installed last year are swelled with buds and the Dawn Redwood tree donated by Meyer Landscaping is ready to pop out as well! We put in 50 alliums ‘Purple Sensation’ last fall and their distinct strappy foliage is rising high, proclaiming, ‘we’re glad to be here’! No doubt, the awakening of a garden is a salve for the soul.  The wonder is unrivaled!   Continue Reading »