Glen Ellyn Junior Woman's Club is proud to announce two feature presentations taking place during the 2015 Glen Ellyn Garden Walk

Glen Ellyn Junior Woman’s Club is proud to announce two feature presentations taking place during the 2015 Glen Ellyn Garden Walk.

10:30 AM: Summer Container Planting Presentation: Vogelsinger Garden: 723 Forest Ave

Heinz Brothers Greenhouse Garden Center presents Summer Container Planting. Join Christa Bormann as discusses ways to create stunning annual container gardens. She will demonstrate how to create a hearty shade container as well as a colorful sun container.

11:30 AM: Kitchen Herb Container Garden Presentation: Vogelsinger Garden: 723 Forest Ave

GardenWorks Project presents Kitchen Herb Container Gardening. Join Suzanne Cullinane as she discusses ways to create flourishing herb and vegetable container gardens. She will demonstrate various ways herbs can be incorporated into recipes throughout the summer using a garden to table focus.

The 2015 Glen Ellyn Garden Walk features six private gardens, plus a bonus Glen Ellyn Park District collaborative, pantry-based, community garden. The gardens featured this year are ‘gardener’s gardens,’ primarily maintained by the homeowners themselves, and will appeal to garden lovers great and small. Featured in the 2015 Glen Ellyn Garden Walk is a palatial backyard sanctuary renovated into a peaceful, shady oasis, a transformational garden highlighting several tree varieties, including silver maples and katsuras, a backyard retreat comprised of color and texture centering around a Japanese Red Maple, an eclectic serenity garden that marries mature trees, mixed borders and landscape art, and a peaceful tranquility garden that seamlessly integrates both ornamental plants as well as species native to our area.

This year, we are featuring several gardens within close proximity to one another. Our sprawling will call garden (the Vogelsinger Garden) is situated on a double lot, bringing you twice the area to explore. Right across the street, you will tour our robust shade garden (Giampoli Garden) comprising of hummingbird and butterfly ‘rooms.’ Another surprise to the Walk this year can be found at the Bladel Garden where you will find a ‘secret gate’ that leads to the Bray Garden, a tranquil family oasis, featuring a pondless waterfall.

Tickets are now on sale for the 2015 annual Glen Ellyn Garden Walk to be held on Saturday, June 20th, from 10 am to 4 pm.

Tickets are $25 through June 19th and $30 beginning June 20th. Tickets can be purchased at http://glenellynjuniors.com/gardenwalk-tickets2015.php and at select Glen Ellyn retailers:

· Young’s Appliances, 500 Crescent Blvd.

· BMO Harris Bank, 405 Pennsylvania Ave.

· The Bookstore, 475 N. Main St.

· Glen Ellyn Bank and Trust, 500 Roosevelt Rd.

FEATURED GARDENS:

Vogelsinger Garden: 723 Forest Ave and 720 N. Park Blvd

Giampoli Garden: 720 Forest Ave

Peterson Garden: 237 Lorraine St

Steinbach Garden: 175 Cortland Ct

Bladel/Bray Garden: 271 Bryant Ave

Roug Garden: 936 Crescent Blvd

BONUS Garden: Growing Glen Ellyn: Gardens for Giving: Village Green Park: 130 S. Lambert Road (just south of Roosevelt Rd)

All proceeds benefit Bridge Communities Transitional Housing Program which connects homeless families in DuPage County to a permanent housing and self-sustaining independence.

A sincere thank you to our Garden Walk sponsors: Grant and Power Landscaping, American Gardens, The Lukins-McCollum Team, Quaid and Rooney, Pattie Murray/Berkshire Hathaway Home Services/KoenigRubloff Realty Group, Home TRG Construction, Prosek’s Greenhouse, Jennifer Thompson Designs, The Lekatos Team/Remax Suburban, CNC Medical Equipment, Laubinger & Associates, and The Growing Place.

Glen Ellyn Junior Woman’s Club has been providing support to Glen Ellyn and the surrounding communities through philanthropic endeavors for over 64 years. Our members consist of women dedicated to improving the community in which we live and assisting those in need, including SCARCE, Easter Seals, Teen Parent Connection, DuPage PADS, Supplies for Success and Partnership for Educational Progress (PEP Foundation). Activities/fundraisers include: Christmas Family Adoption Program, Jolly Grams, Project Linus, and Western DuPage Special Recreation Association.

Bridge Communities, Inc. is a dynamic, grassroots, nonprofit organization committed to transforming the lives of homeless families in DuPage County through partnering with talented, resourceful individuals and groups in the community.

Digital photos of the gardens and the event logo are available via email; please contact Dawn Cassata at dawncassata@yahoo.com or at 630-474-9791.