The West Chicago Garden Club

By Christina Covarrubias (Photos by Kerry Perry)

The Kruse garden is still looking glorious in its autumnal hues! The monkshood wins the award for latest perennial to flower here this year and our small clump of trout lily is growing and flowered in its very orchid-like way. 

A special thank you to our Wednesday Kruse Crew- Kerry Perry, Barbara Darrah, Chris Gicela, Dee Soustek, Marilyn Santos-McNabb, Jean Ann Saarnio, Mary Anderson, Judy Knaak, and Karen King- for your gift of time, plant knowledge, talent and muscles over the past 6 months. Your fellow Kruse gardeners bundled up for our last day in the garden, October 29th.  We celebrated the end of another beautiful garden season and walked around with pencil, paper and camera in hand for over an hour planning for next year. We will need about 3 times as many hours and gardeners next year if we want to check everything off our plans! Anyone else a little delusional with their garden plans or is it just me?!?

Last month we shared our Wasco trip selecting a new tree. As we were looking around for another tree, the Wasco tree expert kept suggesting tree varieties and we had to reply “we already have one of those” to so many of the trees he suggested. It’s the sign of a great garden legacy to have such diversity of established trees in our almost one acre garden. With this tree diversity comes multi-seasonal interest and an extended autumn season. 

Enjoy the fall foliage photos!