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Wicker Park
Garden Club
Come and Garden
With Us!
We Design, Fund
and Tend the 10,000 square feet of Gardens in the Park.
Join Us –
Saturdays 10am-2pm.
Register to be a
Garden Volunteer –
wpgarden@aol.com
WICKER PARK
GARDEN CLUB & THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT
Fundraiser for the Park Gardens
PLANT SALE & WORKSHOPS
Saturday -
Sunday - May 1 & 2 - 10am-4pm
Wicker Park
- 1425 N. Damen Ave - Chicago
Sale Held
OUTSIDE Field House - West Side
or
INSIDE Field House Gym if
Raining
Flowering Annuals and Perennials -
Herbs – Vegetables & Heirloom Tomatoes
Come to the
sale and go home with an excellent selection of plants and at the
same time - assist us with raising funds to help support the 10,000
square feet of gardens that we design and maintain in Wicker Park.
Come early. Also, take one or more of our workshops. Join the
nation wide movement of growing some food at home - learn how - and
then purchase the vegetable to create your home gardens.
Saturday, May 1 - 10am - Noon - $15
CONTAINER DESIGN WORKSHOP -
Design Ornamental Flower or Attractive Herb Containers:
Seasonal or Year Round Designs
Susan Fontana
Thinking
Outside the Pot
Flowering Plants and Herbs
Available at the Plant Sale
REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
WPGarden@aol.com
(773) 278-9075
If you missed
last year’s sold out workshop, you have another opportunity to get
inspired about the elements of container design: color, foliage,
texture, and height. You can even learn to create an attractive
ornamental yet totally edible vegetable container composition.
Susan Fontana (Thinking Outside the Pot, Inc.), will lead a lively
workshop with demonstrations on the art of container design and
maintenance. Susan is known best for her superb container designs
and unified multi-container compositions. You can learn to design
several containers to work together. She will discuss location
characteristics such as sunlight and wind for a wide variety of
areas including yards, rooftops and balconies. She will address
container choices such as material, size, shape, color and
insulation for year round plantings. Bring your questions and
experiences to share. Following the workshop, you can shop at the
plant sale, discuss your specific interests and design ideas with
Susan, and go home with plants for your own containers that will
thrive throughout the summer and fall seasons.
Saturday, May 1 - 1PM - 2:30PM - $15
GROW VEGETABLE EVERYWHERE? - Small
Space Vegetable Gardening
Beth Botts
Senior Editor - Chicagoland Gardening Magazine
www.chicagolandgardening.com
blog:
www.growinginchicago.com
Heirloom Vegetables Available at
Plant Sale
REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
WPGarden@aol.com (773) 278-9075
Don't
miss the experience of tasting fresh flavorful vegetables that you
grow yourself. Beth Botts will discuss how to grow vegetables in all
types of containers, rotate them throughout the season, and how to
get the best results from growing vegetables in your city gardens,
on your decks, or incorporating them in your patio's designs. She
will discuss soils and fertilizers and how to
grow vegetables
organically if you choose to use those techniques. Beth Botts is a
writer, speaker, consultant and Master Gardener who writes on
gardening for the Chicago Tribune and is a senior editor at
Chicagoland Gardening Magazine. Several of her stories have
won awards from the Garden Writers Association. Raised by an organic
gardener on the South Side, she now does her digging and weeding in
Oak Park in the shade on the north side of a 4-story apartment
building and grows tomatoes and salads on the 3rd-floor porch. Visit
her blog:
www.growinginchicago.com
Saturday, May 1 - 3PM-4:30PM - $15
DESIGNING WITH BOLD ACCENTS -
Bulbs, Annuals, Vines, & Ground
Covers
Add Variety at Low Cost - Try Seeds and Bulbs
Doug Wood -
Wicker Park
Garden Club
REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
WPGarden@aol.com
(773) 278-9075
Most
gardens can use a bit more drama and bold statements within their
overall structures. Also, in new gardens there are many 'holes'
during the years you are waiting for the shrubs and perennials to
fill in to these spaces. Doug Wood will discuss the incorporation of
seasonal bulbs, ground covers and bold-structural annuals to bring
accents and drama to your garden designs. Ground covers can act as
excellent backdrops to help focus color and texture of feature
plants. In addition, he will discuss a variety of annual seeds that
you can plant directly into your garden in May and perennial vines
that will extend your gardens vertically (focus on clematis types -
with pruning tips). These additions to your garden designs will
assist to extend your garden's interest throughout all four seasons.
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