Our next meetings:
September 13th - 7PM:
Monarch Magic
by Pat Miller
Discover the magic of the monarch butterfly; its lifecycle and unbelievable migration to Mexico. Learn what makes this butterfly so special, what obstacles it faces and how everyone can be part of the solution! This talk is given with live butterflies. Our guest speaker Pat Miller is a Master Gardener in the University of Illinois Extension. Pat has been gardening for over 45 years. She successfully raised over 195 butterflies and tagged over 85 butterflies in the summer of 2007. Pat travelled to the monarch butterfly overwintering sights in Mexico in 2007. In 2008, she raised over 580 butterflies and tagged 200 monarchs for their migration to Mexico.
October 4: "Container Gardens: A Garden for Any Spot" by Julia Huettel Lamken
Join us to hear a discussion of some beautiful container gardens made by designers at the Growing Place and other designers from around the country illustrating the thriller/filler/spiller concept of plant material. Learn how to use plants with different growing habits (tropicals, perennials, annuals and shrubs) to create a small landscape in a pot.
Julia received her B.S. in Horticulture/Landscape Design from Rutgers University in 1976. She is certified by the Illinois Nurseryman’s Association in perennials, and has spent over 25 years, off and on, working in landscape sales and design in the Chicago and Boston areas. For the past nine years she has worked with The Growing Place in Naperville.
She is currently a member of the Morton Arboretum; the Chicago Botanic Garden; the Nature Conservancy; the Oak Park Conservatory; the Northern Illinois Hosta Society; and the Perennial Plant Association.
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Our meetings are moving to a new location,
Knox Presbyterian Church of Naperville,
at 1105 Catalpa Lane,
Naperville, IL 60540,
west of Washington, south of Gartner Ave.
Please enter through the east main entrance and follow the long hallway to the Fellowship Hall (larger room to the left of the coffee bar).
2010 Picnic Photo Galary:
Bring a friend if you wish. -
Non-members are welcome.
There is no charge for attending the meeting and
you need not be a member to attend.
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