The West Chicago Garden Club

Our Garden Club will once again be supporting garden maintenance at the Kruse House Museum Garden. We started this project back in 1998 when this club was resurrected from dormant status by some ingenious Historical Society members. The Garden C lub has invested many hours and dollars over the years and the garden has evolved into a very fine garden. We are confident that the Kruse family would be proud that it is still a garden enjoyed by the community. Their intent was to preserve a snippet of their lives; thus the property was donated to the Historical Society in the 1960s. The gardens were always important to them. It was only in their later years they were unable to maintain the grounds in the fine style they were accustomed to. The revived garden has matured to where it currently ‘gives back’. We are able to dig quite a number of plants for our annual plant sale.

Most of our plans for the garden this year involve maintenance with the usual tweaking as needed. However, we do intend to install a significant gingko tree as well. Gardens are never static and many of the old trees are dying off. It’s high time we get a new one started. We would also like to redo a  stone wall that is falling apart as you can see in the middle of this picture. It is a dry stack wall original to the garden. Is there anyone who would volunteer for that project? It should be done early spring but we are so busy with general garden clean-up at that time that it’s unlikely that we’ll get to it. Let us know if you can help. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Angie, Tom and I work most every Monday morning in the garden. Something to put on your calendar …. join us!

Looking forward to a great year in the Kruse Garden! A&B