Welcome to the home of the Illinois Dunesland Garden Club
Ever wondered what goes on at a garden club meeting? Stop in (online!) to find out.. Please click on underlined phrases to follow links throughout this website for more information. Often you will find links with directions or more information about the speakers, topics and events themselves.
Illinois Dunesland Garden Club is for gardeners in Northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin. We are a well-established garden club; we have been meeting since 1937. Our club has gardeners, recent and experienced. We are always looking for new and interested gardeners—you don’t have to be a master gardener to be included! We have nearly ninety members and are growing each year.
All meetings have been cancelled, a newsletter will be emailed in its place by meeting date.
Virtual events and activities will be offered in the meantime. See EVENTS and Facebook.
We will eventually meet monthly at the Zion Benton Public Library (unless otherwise noted); except in the summer when we have tours, activities, workshops and classes.
We like to share our knowledge, as well as introduce new ideas and techniques through meetings and programs. You can share your knowledge and benefit from the experiences of others. Included in our members are master gardeners, some horticulturists, a master herbalist, and a certified daylily judge, as well as many members with years of practical knowledge.
We welcome all levels of gardeners; all you need is an interest in learning more. We also have a Facebook page for other ideas, information sharing, and to allow our fellow gardeners to post pictures of their gardens and outdoor adventures. Check it out at @IllinoisDuneslandGardenClub. And we have just started an Instagram page which we will be sharing fun gardening photos in 2021!
March
We still have time before the busyness of spring overtakes us, so let’s focus on caring this month. There are many things that need care right now. If you haven’t cleaned and sharpened your tools, now is the time to care for them. Winter care for our trees and shrubs includes checking and pruning this month. Winter is taking a toll on our birds as well; there are some ways we can care for them. There is information in this issue or on our website about these topics.
Just a little update on our club—I’d like you to know that we have had two new people join even though we are unable to have our meetings in person. I know we’re all anxious to welcome them personally to the club, but for now we will do virtually. We’re thrilled that we are able to have an active and appealing club even in this pandemic era..
Let’s care for ourselves, each other, our animal and plants for whom we truly are custodians.
February
It’s February. It’s the depth of winter with cold and snow surrounding us but we’re safe and warm in our homes. Though it doesn’t seem like it, spring is creeping closer. February is the shortest month of the year, so we’ll soon be looking backwards on this winter. To get through this time of cold and isolation, we can spruce up our homes and celebrate the good in our lives.
January
Where to begin? At the end? Yes, it’s finally the end of the old year that brought us so much turmoil and turned our lives upside down. So let‘s happily wave good-bye to 2020 and look forward expectantly to 2021. Let us begin anew.
December
2020 VIRTUAL Garden Tours
While we are not able to physically attend this year’s 2020 Garden Tours, we thought we would take this opportunity to share with you a new, and easy to enjoy way to visit some of the gardens that we all love to visit. This is the page will host many VIRTUAL tours, so that even though we cannot walk side by side through these gardens, we are all able to share in the beauty and bounty that the partnership between nature and gardeners.
Interested in seeing what other gardeners do? Want to learn to make concrete garden art? Be part of our butterfly sanctuary program? Try organic gardening? Want to learn more about the environment? Birds? Do some day trips? What about photography? We are planning these things and more.
Meeting dates and programs are listed below. Guests are welcome. Feel free to join us any time throughout the year. Please call or email for more information—you can contact us through the Contact link at the top of the page.
To find out more about upcoming activities, please click on the Events link at the top of the page. That is where you can find details on each workshop, tour, and other activities for the rest of the year. A more detailed listing of the monthly meetings (once they restart up again) can be found on the Meetings link.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July Annual Garden Tour
Completed Months
September Kickoff and Newsletter
October Newsletter
Make sure to share your wishes with our members celebrating this month!
Make sure to share your wishes with our members celebrating this month!