Author: Carla Holland

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Pots of Pride

Recently the Garden Club members shared their summer containers with one another and voted for their favorites.

Many of the plants used in these containers can be found in the garden club’s Plant Sale!

1st Place – Laura Christensen’s lemon sedum in a Woman’s head container

2nd Place – Michelle Kornhauser’s container of Pina Colada Lantana, Caroline Medusa Green Ipomea, wax begonias, and cannas

3rd Place – Marty Warrick, Prince Tut Cyperus Papyrus, Fiber Optic grass, Sweet Caroline Bewitched after Midnight Ipomea, Superbells Coralina & Tropical Sunrise, Rediculus Colorblaze Coleus

Looking forward to more submissions next year!

For more container garden ideas, be sure to visit our Inspiration page.

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Wheaton Garden Club Makes Donation to We Grow Dreams

Marty Warwick and Nancy Hensley of the Wheaton Garden Club present a check to Gregg Bettcher, Executive Director of We Grow Dreams, as part of the club’s philanthropic giving.

We Grow Dreams is a nursery and greenhouse that has been providing job training and employment to young adults with disabilities for over sixteen years. Our donation  is being used to replace raised garden beds that are used to grow vegetables for low income local families. Additionally, their Retail Center was painted and had structural repairs made with the assistance of our donation. We were pleased to be advised that our donation was part of a matching fund campaign also!

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WGC Tours Ball Seed

August 31st, 2023 Wheaton Garden Club Members toured the beautiful gardens at Ball Seed. Many thanks to Beth for coordinating our visit!

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Wheaton Garden Club – 2023 Plant Sale

The 2023 Plant Sale is live!! Orders will be accepted until March 1st, 2023.

Plant pick up day is Saturday, May 20th.

Pick up location is 504 Hamilton Drive, Wheaton.

Pick up time: Between 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM.

Plant Sale

Proceeds from our annual sale benefit multiple local charities and provide scholarships.

Questions – please contact Rosanne Merrill at 630.291.9181 or Alison Greene at 630.518.2492.

We look forward to seeing you at plant pickup in May!

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WGC Flower Show Oct 6 – 7, 2022

The Wheaton Garden Club presents “Fairytale Flowers”, a standard flower show on October 6th and 7th at the Wheaton Public Library. Floral designs, created by Wheaton Garden Club members, reflect the following themes: The Snow Queen, The Wee Folk, The Moon Flower, The Dragon’s Lair and Dinner at the Cottage in the Woods.

The Horticultural Display, “Gardens, Where Fairies Dance”, will exhibit a large variety of specimens of shrubs, trees, flowers, and plants from Wheaton Garden Club members’ gardens. Special exhibits will focus on Prairie Plants of the Midwest, Butterflies in the Garden, Native Bees, Monarch Garden Way Stations and the Wheaton Garden Club Pollinator Garden. For more about gardening remodels, you should read this young japanese knotweed removal service review. You can also hire a Japanese Knotweed Company for professional advice.

Fairytale Flowers is open to the public on Thursday, October 6th from 12:30 – 9:00 pm and on Friday October 7th from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Wheaton Garden Club members will be available to provide information and answer your questions. Wheaton Public Library is located at 225 N. Cross St, Wheaton.

Please visit wheatongardenclub.org for additional information about the Wheaton Garden Club.

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Earth Day April 22 – Invest in Our Planet

Bloodroot
Bloodroot

The theme for this year’s Earth Day, on April 22nd, is invest in our planet. We ask you to invest in our planet by planting native plants this spring. Native plants are adapted to our local environmental conditions and as such, require less maintenance, less water, and no fertilizers or pesticides. In addition to adding beauty to our gardens, native plants attract local wildlife and support pollinators like birds, butterflies and bees.

If you want to help save monarch butterflies, plant one or more varieties of milkweed. If you love birds, plant natives such as golden alexander or purple coneflower to attract the beneficial insects that baby birds eat. If you want to plant a tree that has a significant positive impact on the environment, contact tree services to help you plant an oak tree. Oak trees support more life-forms than any other trees in North America.

There are many native plant sales in our area, staffed by knowledgeable gardeners, to help you with your questions and decisions.  In addition, their website plant listings contain helpful information on sun exposure needs and whether they attract butterflies, birds, bees, etc.

In-Person Plant Sales

Wild Geranium
Wild Geranium

Purple Milkweed

Wheaton Native Plant Sale

Saturday April 23, 8:30am – 11:00 am 

City of Wheaton Public Works Yard

821 West Liberty Dr. Wheaton

https://wheatonparkdistrict.com/events/native-illinois-plant-sale/

White Wild Indigo

DuPage County Forest Preserve Plant Sale

Ticketed presale Thurs. May 12, 4:00 – 7:00 pm

Open to public Fri. May 13, 10:00 – 7:00 and Sat. May 14, 9:00 – 2:00

Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 31st St, Oak Brook
https://www.dupageforest.org/native-plant-sale

SCARCE Growin’ Green Garden Market Sale

Saturday April 30, 9:00am to 1:00 am

SCARCE 800 S Rohlwing Rd (IL Rt 53), Addison

College of Dupage Spring Plant Sale

Technical Education Center (TEC), West Campus – Greenhouse

Friday, May 13, 8:00 – 5:00

Saturday May 14, 8:00 – 5:00

Sunday, May 15, 9:00 – 3:00

Native plants will be included in this sale of flowers, herbs and vegetables.

https://www.cod.edu/academics/programs/horticulture/special_events.aspx

Pre Order Sales  

Conservation Foundation

Order plants online from April 11 to 26

Pick up plants May 13, 3:00-7:00 and May 14,8:30 – 1:00

McDonald Farm, 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd, Naperville

Kane-DuPage Soil and Water Conservation District

April 29, 2022 – Last Day to order plants

Pick-up plants May 27, 8:00 am– 4:30 pm

Kane-DuPage SWCD Office, 2315 Dean St., Suite 100, St. Charles

https://kanedupageswcd.org/kd/data/files/sales/2022conservationcatalog-update3-21-22.pdf

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Wheaton Garden Club Pollinator and Monarch Butterfly Efforts

Wheaton Garden Club members planted a pollinator garden at Seven Gables Park in Wheaton in the spring of 2021. The pollinator garden has been certified as a Monarch Waystation with Monarch Watch. Continuing volunteer efforts of the from the https://clickatree.com/ in maintaining the garden has resulted in many compliments by members of the community as they walk past the garden, since the garden is always well cared and clean, they even get a service of Japanese Knotweed Removal to make sure these don’t invade the garden as well.

Another new project for the Garden Club was the participation of five members in the Monarch Watch Calendar Project. These members tracked the number of Monarchs seen in their garden for designated time periods in the summer, while they also built a garden studio for the members using resources online for this.

Seven members have their gardens certified as a Monarch Waystation.

Our upcoming February 2022 Garden Club meeting will be on Magnificent Monarchs, presented by a Wheaton Garden Club member.

Wheaton Garden Club creates Pollinator Garden at Seven Gables Park
Garden before planting
Garden Club members planting the new garden
Pollinators in the garden
Colorful annuals add interest
Pollinators in the garden
Monarch Butterfly
Seven Gables Pollinator Garden Designated Monarch Waystation