The Gardener’s Dream

Thank you to our Garden Sponsors: Paradise Ponds, BE Wealth

Owners: Dave and Cheryl Higgins

Address: 1975 North Halstead Road

Plan to shop! Vendors at this garden:

• The Wild Pencil by Bonnie Neubrand
• Don & Sue Creations

Exhibitors: Dyck Arboretum, Smoky Hills Audubon Society

Location and Highlights

• Water features, including pond with train
• Native plants and pollinators
• Vegetable garden with raised beds
• Monarch Waystation
• Smoky Hills Audubon Society Official Backyard Songbird Habitat

Plants to look for:

• American Beautyberry
• Wisteria
• Mimosa Tree
• Purple-lobed Locust Trees
• Allium
• Iron Butterfly
• Storm Cloud Amsonia
• Button Bush
• Coneflowers

Favorite plants:

• English Walnut (Carpathian)
• Chaste tree
• Fringe tree
• Walking Stick tree
• Temple of Bloom and Seven Sons tree
• large Magnolia tree
• Indigo bush

Don’t miss…

• Plants behind the pond – Chaste tree, Fringe tree, Chestnut tree, Yellow-wood tree, Iris and Daylilies
• Garden bed at the end of the driveway, next to the road
• Native pollinator gardens
• Vegetable gardens

How we want others to describe our garden:

• Interesting in all seasons!
• It makes me happy… I want to stay here.
• Relaxing ecosystem (love the activity of bees, butterflies, dragonflies, frogs, birds, and the sound of the waterfall)

Challenges:

Clay soil, slopes, zero shade

Gardening Tip:

If it doesn’t grow the first time, try again. If it doesn’t grow the second time, try something else.

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