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Perennial Plant Sale 
Friday, May 18 and Saturday May 19,  9:00 am – 4:00 pm. at Meadowhill Park Chalet located at 1479 Maple Street, Northbrook.  Our club members divide the perennials growing in their gardens, giving them room to grow and flourish and giving you the opportunity to purchase them at great prices for your garden or for gifts.

Among the hundreds of plants we will have for sale are: 
Anemone, Aster, Astilbe, Bachelor button (Centaurea), Bee Balm (Monarda),  Black Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia), Chrysanthemum, Columbine, Coneflower (Echinacea), Coral Bells (Huechera), Daisy,  Dames Rocket (Hesperis), Daylily (Stella D'Oro), Daylily (Hybrid),  Fern (various), Forget-me-nots, Gay Feather (Liatris) Geranium (Cranesbill),  Wild Ginger,  Golden Alexander, Heliotrope, Hosta (various), Hydrangea, Iris (Bearded & Siberian), Jacob's Ladder, Lady Bells, Lady's Mantle (Alchemilla),  Lamb's Ears (Stachys), Lamium, Lily of the Valley, Oriental Poppy, Penstemon, Phlox, Queen of the Prairie, Salvia, Sedum (various), Solomon's Seal, Spiderwort, Sundrops (Missouri Primrose), Taodlily, Turtle head (Chelone), Virginia Bluebells,Yarrow, Bloodroot, Jack in the Pulpit, Mayapple, Shooting Star, Trillium,  

Groundcovers: Ajuga (Bugle Weed), Ivy, Pachysandra, Sweet Woodruff (Gallium), Vinca

Herbs: Chives, Garlic Chives, Lemon Balm, Oregano, Rosemary, Spearmint, Thyme

Praying Mantid egg cases will be on sale for $4.00.  Limited quantities are available..  Simply hang the egg case on a twig in your yard and when they hatch and grow to adult size they will feed on aphids, mosquitoes and other small insects in your yard.  Or place the egg case in a large jar and cover it with netting; just wait for your children's fascination watching the hatching process.  Be sure to take the jar outside before removing the netting and releasing the mantid in your shrubbery!  

Proceeds from the plant sale fund various garden club projects including the public gardens the club maintains in Northbrook; monthly programs which are open to the public; and donations to various local and statewide gardening groups.  Proceeds also go to a statewide scholarship program sponsored by The Garden Clubs of Illinois. Locally, a $1,000.00 scholarship is awarded each year to a deserving college-bound Glenbrook North High School senior who pursues a degree in horticulture, ecology, or related fields


Garden Club Meeting
The Northbrook Garden Club will meet on June 5 at 11:30 am at Allgauer's Restaurant for our Members only luncheon and installation of officers.   


Northbrook Farmers Market
Gardening Day, Wednesday, June 27, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm 
at Our Lady of the Brook parking lot, 3700 Dundee Road.  Composting in Northbrook will be the main topic of conversation – using your indoor and outdoor plant waste to create that wonderful black gold that everyone is always talking about.  We’ll also have samples of some of those nasty invasive plants you should be looking out for, if you want your garden and our village looking great. 

For indoors, learn about the natural air filtering spider plant, so if you have allergies, be sure to check these out!  Spider plants produce plantlets, which can be replanted once they are large enough, giving you a whole air filtering plant system at home.

Coleus are those special plants that look great indoors or out. The leaf shades range from dark green to bright red, and a multitude of patterns in between.  Learn how to take cuttings from your coleus in the fall, overwinter in the house as a beautiful house plant, and take more cuttings in the spring to start new plants for your garden.  Talk about recycling! 

Special demonstrations at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 will be on houseplants, and how you can create the latest tabletop gardens, including a dish garden, a terrarium and a lovely basket filled with beautiful plants! 

Our expert gardeners will be available for questions you may have about your garden or house plants.  Make sure you don’t miss this great opportunity to have a fun-filled day at the Market, and learn about gardening in Northbrook with your Garden Club!

At the day’s end, one of the tabletop gardens will be raffled to a lucky winner!