Spring containers were planted to bring a little color and joy to the facility.

Wheaton, Illinois
Spring containers were planted to bring a little color and joy to the facility.
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
Direct questions to Rosanne Merrill at 630-291-9181
or or Alison Greene (630) 518-2492.
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:
Note:
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.
Our members did a wonderful job planting up the containers at the Metropolitan Family Services facility on Willow in downtown Wheaton. They certainly add a cheerful holiday touch!
Stop by the Wheaton Public Library between September 20 and October 12, 2024. There are 3 display cabinets with lots of information! Don’t miss out!
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.
Our latest philanthropic project – making landscaping improvements at the Veterans Home in Wheaton. New shrubs and perennials were installed by the sitting area.
Several members helped with the annual spring clean up at our Pollinator Garden at 7 Gables Park. Many hands quickly finished the work before the rains.
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.