Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Paint your garden with plants...new classes at the Chicago Botanic Garden!

Saturday, April 30 classes at the Chicago Botanic Garden

Painting Your Garden with Plants: Designing the Sunny Border 10 a.m. - noon

The well-designed border wears a combination of perennials, annuals, and shrubs that provide three seasons of color and winter interest. This class will discuss how to artfully combine plants with an emphasis on the use of color, texture, and form. Whether you are a new gardener or you have an established border that could use updating, this class is for you.

Painting Your Garden with Plants: Designing the Shade Garden 1 – 3 p.m.
A garden shaded by trees or buildings is often a challenge for the gardener who is faced with low-light levels, tree roots, and soil that is often dry. This class provides solutions and ideas for artful plantings that can help you create effective combinations that consider color, texture, and form. Ideal for those who want to enhance an existing shade garden or plan a new one.

$29 for CBG members/$37 for non members for each session or register for both session at $52/$65 for a 10 percent discount. For more information, check here.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Eating Locally—From your own Garden

That incredibly warm weather that dropped into northeastern Illinois has gardeners itching to get going.  Even though the soil is still pretty cool--a soil thermometer can give you the exact reading--there are plenty of vegetables that you can sow in the garden right now for harvest in the coming weeks.

Staggering your plantings every few weeks will give you a non-stop crop of leaf lettuce, spinach, radishes, spring onions, beets and more. If you’d like to learn the basics of growing vegetables and herbs, attend a free program--"Growing Edibles: What you need to Know to Harvest Your Own Food” by Chicagoland Gardening writer, Nina Koziol. The program will be held at Sid’s Greenhouse locations:

Friday, April 15 at 6 p.m.

Bolingbrook Store

550 S Naper-Plainfield Rd

Bolingbrook, IL 60490

630-904-1007


Saturday, April 16 at 11 a.m.

Sid’s Greenhouse

10926 Southwest Hwy

Palos Hills, IL 60465

708-974-4500