Evanston Garden Walk's 25th Anniv Sunday, June 29

On Sunday June 29 the Evanston Garden Walk will host its 25th Annual event, celebrating a quarter of a century of Walks. This year there will be eight individual private gardens and one public garden and the Walk will be held from 12--5pm.

Tickets are available on the website of the Evanston Environmental Association
at www.EvanstonEnvironment.org. Just click on the Garden Walk button. This year you can purchase a ticket online and use the paid receipt as your ticket.
Tickets are $20 for non-members and $15 for members. They can also be purchased at the Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd, 847-448-8256.

The Evanston Garden Walk began as the inspiration of the people who were running Keep Evanston Beautiful, which was officially formed in 1986. The president of KEB's board, Maryjane Klein, had the idea to start a local garden visit program to raise funds and to motivate gardeners. She and Nancy Burhop and Margaret Morris and others got together a group of nine gardens for the first walk in 1990. Nancy remembers Margaret, who is tall, standing on top of a van to peer into backyards to see if a suitable garden lay behind a fence.

In 1995 a public garden was added to the list, and the Merrick Rose Garden was the first one chosen.

The Garden Walk is now presented by the Evanston Environmental Assoc.  All proceeds go directly to that organization to support the Ecology Center and a number of educational endeavors. The GW is run entirely by unpaid volunteers.

This should be a great year for our annual Garden Walk! Bikers enjoy themselves because it's all local, but no bikes in the gardens, of course. A volunteer is there to watch your bike for you while you go in the garden.
Enjoy!