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.

Pollinator Garden Open House

The Wheaton Garden Club members welcomed visitors to our Pollinator Garden Open House at Seven Gables Park on Saturday June 22, 2024. Visitors were able to see many different types of flowers that are beneficial to our local pollinators: birds, bees and butterflies. Children enjoyed coloring pictures of butterflies and bees. Free milkweed plants for Monarch butterflies were given away. We anticipate this will be an annual event.

Library Flowers

Be sure to check out the floral arrangements at the Wheaton Public Library, provided weekly by members of the Wheaton Garden Club.