Posts

Posted on

Plant Sale 2025

Welcome to the WGC Plant Sale

Please Submit your order no later than
Saturday, March 1, 2025.
Thank you for your order and continued support!

ORDER PICKUP:
SATURDAY, MAY 17th 1:00-3:00 PM
504 HAMILTON DRIVE,  WHEATON

Order Now

Direct questions to Rosanne Merrill at 630-291-9181
or or Alison Greene (630) 518-2492.

Need some Gardening Inspiration
Plant Sale FAQ

Please note that plant pick-up is one day only.  If you cannot pick-up your plants on that day, please arrange for someone else to pick them up for you.  The Wheaton Garden Club cannot be responsible for the condition of plants not picked up on May 17th.

What’s New for 2025:

  • Begonia “Black Hole” – A Rex Begonia with dramatic dark centered leaves. (4.5″ pot)
  • Tropical Canna Lily “Gold Leopard” – A green leaf variety whose flowers have orange spots on a gold background. 
  • 3 new Dahlias
    • “Apricot Glow” from the City Lights series. (4.5″ pot)
    • “Golden Yellow” and “Passion Fruit” from the Venti series. (6″ pots, available in our Specialty Offerings category)
  • Helianthus “Saturn” – Flowers have an orange ring around the dark center.
  • 2 new Petunias (4.5″pots) –
    • “Indian Summer” – A trailing petunia with blooms that open orange and mature to salmon pink.
    • “Pink Diamond” – A double petunia with large pink flowers, whose petals are edged in white.
  • A new color Portulaca “Mango” – This is available in both 4.5″ pots and hanging baskets.

Note:

  • Pick-up is one day only, Saturday, May 17th.  If you cannot pick-up your plants on that day, please arrange for someone else to pick them up for you.  The Wheaton Garden Club cannot be responsible for the condition of plants not picked up on May 17th.
  • Since we are required to order full cases of each item, we have reduced the plants that we are offering to exclude items for which there were very few purchases last year.
  • Occasionally, our grower substitutes items for those that were ordered.  If your order is affected by this, we will give you the option of accepting the substitution or removing the unavailable item from your order.
  • If a plant is a “Proven Winners” selection, we have noted that in the description of the plant. The Proven Winners website is especially helpful for more information about their plants. This information includes reviews, awards, and recipes for combinations with other plants.
  • We recommend the Ball Seed website for additional information about plants that are not “Proven Winners”.

Posted on

Philanthropy Recipients

Wheaton Garden Club is very pleased to announce its Philanthropy recipients for 2025.

A financial donation was made to We Grow Dreams to go towards roofing repairs. We Grow Dreams is a nursery and greenhouse in West Chicago, which has been providing job training and employment to young adults with disabilities for over seventeen years. Photo: left to right: Gail Bettcher from We Grow Dreams with members of the Philanthropy Committee – Mary Pat, Nancy and Marty.

A financial donation was also given to Sustain DuPage for their programs including a lending library for tools, a protector native seed program and garden restoration programs. Sustain DuPage is a community of organizers working toward the common aim of growing sustainability in DuPage County. Photo: Lindsay Zimmerman, Garden Organizer with David Bravo and Anton Dimov of Sustain DuPage.