Our goal is to share the love of gardening and nature while also creating connections and community. 

 

We meet bi-monthly where we enjoy speakers, activities and indulge in our gardening obsessions.

 

Some of the past topics have been:

•Preparing your garden for winter

•Composting with Urban Worm Girl

•Sustainability

•Enhancing your garden’s soil

•BeeKeeping 

• A lecture from The Care of Trees

 

The Garden Club hosts an annual Garden Walk that has flourished…

We began with 20 gardens and this year had 43 gardens for visitors to tour.

We’ve added live music in several yards, demonstrations and lots of lemonade stands!

The money raised is donated to our neighborhood food pantry, The Common Pantry.

Check out photos of The 2010 Garden Walk.

Other events:

•A Spring workshop on planting container gardens

•Annual Fall Plant Swap in conjunction with the Bradley Street Yard Sales.

•Annual Holiday Wreath Decorating

 

We have several landscape designers in the Club and within the neighborhood.  If you are looking for someone to help you with your garden,

here are some landscapers that neighbors have used:

Judi Phillips  Terrace and Garden Landscapes

Susanne Frank   Bluestem Gardens

Annette Held Landscapes 

Rinda West Rinda West Landscape Designs

Dane Caswell   Scotland Yards  

Kim Kaulas, Inc.   773.761.3668

 

We’re in touch with the other Garden Clubs in the City, too.

The Wicker Park Garden Club , and the Lincoln Square Garden Walk and

Green Fair.

 

Best of all, it’s free! 

 

We are always up for suggestions.  If you would like to sign up to receive our emails about upcoming meetings and events, email: gardenclub@northcenterneighborhood.org