West Chicago Garden Club

10/21/2026

Members, we hope you will join us for our meeting tomorrow night!

🪻It's time for our member's only Bulb Bingo!🌷Everyone is a winner in Bulb Bingo. Each time you get a bingo, you win a small bag of bulbs to plant in your garden for lovely flowers in the spring. We will play a couple rounds until all the bulbs are gone.

Please note that this is a MEMBERS ONLY EVENT. No guests for this event please.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow, Thursday, October 22!

Meeting Location: St Andrew Lutheran Church (NE Corner of Prince Crossing & Geneva Road.)
Meeting Time:
6:45PM Arrive & Mingle
7:00PM Business Meeting
7:15PM Program

Tally Sheets Due: Please bring your completed Tally Sheets or the information you need to fill out a Garden Bucks Tally Sheet to the meeting tomorrow. We need your Tally Sheets by the end of the month in order to get everything organized for the November Potluck & Raffle. See the most recent email and newsletter for links if you want to see what information you need or if you want to print out a copy and fill it out at home to bring with you.

10/18/2026

https://www.chicagobotanic.org/blog/plant-science-conservation/rare-orchid-reappears?fbclid=IwY2xjawVB6wJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMUt6SVA3anpUOXNKakN2UG1zcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEemXYYV_AI06HxBWym7VzNtiBxvQHPFXcF4YtJdvHlHZ5ub1tE445qrAdazaU_aem_KvU5lV6pZzd4Eo9EeKNsDQ

How decades of restoring habitats unearthed a long-lost flower at the GardenIn the 1980s, a handful of white lady’s slipper orchids (Cypripedium candidum)—a rare wild species native to Illinois—were rescued from a construction zone and transplanted into the natural areas at the Chicago Botanic...

09/29/2026

📣This is your friendly reminder that any member of garden club is welcome to submit an article for our newsletter!
Is there something popping up in your yard this month that brings you joy? Is there a public garden you love to visit in the fall? Is there a gardening related book, podcast, movie, or tv series that you enjoy? What are your doing/not doing in the garden in October? Are there gardening tips or tools that make your life easier? What about a gardening event you think others might enjoy?
Type it up, include a picture or pictures, if you have them, and send it to [email protected]. Submissions are due Monday, October 5th for this month's newsletter.
And remember that each article earns you Garden Bucks that you can use to buy raffle tickets for the end of the year raffle, which happens at our November meeting!
Thank you for making our club wonderful!🎉

09/09/2026

Kruse Gardening on a Friday! This Friday, September 11, 2026 6PM-7:30PM

The Kruse House Museum’s Annual Ice Cream Social is scheduled on our normal second Saturday gardening day (September 12) so we have backed up our gardening day to a gardening evening just one day earlier. We need help! In preparation for that event in the garden we would like to beautify the garden as much as possible. Any and all volunteers would be appreciated to dead head spent flowers, hoe the border, w**dwack, collect fallen walnuts/pears, or w**d.

A regular Kruse "crew" gardener will be there to guide you. If you would like, bring your favorite w**ding tool, pruners, kneeling pad and water bottle – don't forget to mark them as your own. Looking forward to gardening with many of you at Kruse House 527 Main Street West Chicago, IL 60185. We’ll have a break halfway through our evening gardening together. If you can’t stay the whole 1.5 hour come for any part of it. All help is valued and greatly appreciated! You’ll also earn garden bucks for our potluck and drawing November meeting. If you can, please sign up to help or if you find yourself available, just show up. You can find the Sign-up Genius link in our August newsletter article about this event (page 6).

09/04/2026

A nice article about asters found naturally in our area!
Share your favorite aster pictures in the comment section!

A variety of colorful asters bloom in the DuPage forest preserves each fall just as the color pops on trees.

08/21/2026

We hope you will join us for our meeting this month where Nicole
Jagelieski will share with us tips for how to Grow Your Vegetable Garden Year-Round!

We look forward to seeing you this Thursday, August 27!

Meeting Location: St Andrew Lutheran Church (NE Corner of Prince Crossing & Geneva Road.)

Meeting Time:
6:45PM Arrive & Mingle
7:00PM Business Meeting
7:15PM Program

All are welcome! Do you have a friend or neighbor who be interested in learning how to extend the growing season to 10 month of the year? Please feel free to bring anyone you think might be interested! We love having guests as well as members joining us for presentations!

08/17/2026

This is an event that was shared by another member. Enjoy!

Garfield Farm and Inn Museum, an 1840's prairie farmstead and inn 40 miles west of Chicago, is being restored as a working farm museum. Garfield Farm offers tours of its historic buildings and prairie natural areas as well as special events featuring rare breeds livestock, antique tools, heirloom pl...

08/17/2026

Margaret Roach is always curious and open to learning new things and this podcast episode brings her sense of discovery to light beautifully.
Enjoy!

RATHER THAN digging in, let’s wade into our topic this week—because the subject is water lilies. How did I know so little about these incredible plants? If you follow any botanical gardens on social media,

07/24/2026

While you're at the DuPage County Fair this weekend be sure to look for the planter that a couple of our members put together on short notice to help decorate the fairgrounds! There are lots of other planters designed by various groups, as well as plenty of plant categories for judging.
We hope you have a lovely time at the fair! Be sure to share your picture with the planter if you find it in the comments below or just a picture of your favorite plant themed find there!

07/22/2026

We have our members to thank for all of their hard work, along with our Plant Sale co-chairs, and all who shop our annual plant sale. It all adds up and allows us to give back to the community. We are happy to do so!

A giant THANK YOU to our friends at the West Chicago Garden Club for their generosity ❤️ They donated this beautiful kaleidoscope planter, for all to enjoy 🌸🌺

Keep an eye out for more garden updates!