The West Chicago Garden Club

By Kerry Perry

It’s all a buzz at the Kruse Garden. We have an enormous variety of perennials that the bees and other pollinators love. Blooming now is calamint, sedum, blue lobelia, golden rod, joe-pye weed and others. Look closely and you’ll see lots of different insects. There are around 500 species of bees native to Illinois. Surprise, honey bees are non-native.

[For the rest of the photos, see the September Newsletter] Can you identify the five insects in these photos I took at Kruse? Let me know at the next meeting. You might “bee” a prize winner!

The Kruse Garden is in need of 10-12” round rocks suitable for edging a garden bed as well as 12″ or slightly large pieces of flagstone to help stabilize some plantings on one of the sloping garden beds. We are also accepting any donations of large to giant hostas varieties you may be fall dividing from your own garden. Please email the club westchicagogardenclub@gmail.com

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