Citizens for Conservation’s Native Plant, Shrub and Tree Sale will offer more than 200 species of plants for home gardeners. Online ordering is available through April 15. | Courtesy of Donna Bolzman
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Citizens for Conservation’s Native Plant, Shrub and Tree Sale: Order deadline is April 15. Online ordering for Citizens for Conservation’s 28th annual Native Plant, Shrub and Tree Sale is available at citizensforconservation.org. CFC’s sale offers more than 200 varieties of native plants, including perennials, ferns, sedges, grasses, shrubs and trees. This year’s sale will also feature two special garden packages, featuring plants that support pollinators. Orders are filled on a first-come, first-filled basis, so order early, and preorders are encouraged if you have a specific plant in mind. There is a pre-order minimum charge; details are on the sale website. The in-person sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 4-5 at CFC’s Hill ’N Dale Preserve in Barrington Hills. Online order pickup will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 3 and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the sale site. CFC members will also be able to shop the sale on May 3, and members get a 10% discount all days. For information, (847) 382-7283.
March 17
Northern Illinois Gesneriad Society Show and Sale: 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake-Cook Road, Glencoe. Free. Gesneriad show and sale. The gesneriad family contains some of the most decorative and widely grown tropical plants including lipstick plant, primrose, gloxinia and African violets. Explore the beauty of about 50 exhibits featuring 20 different types. Learn about the diversity of their flowers and foliage, and see free demonstrations on propagation, soil and more. Shop for cuttings, tubers and rhizomes. For information, chicagobotanic.org.
March 19
Mount Prospect Garden Club: 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, at Chalet Nursery, 3132 Lake Ave., Wilmette. Jennifer Brennan, horticulture information specialist and manager of the Chalet education center, presents “Cool Season vs. Warm Season Planting.” Brennan will examine the respective challenges of planting in the spring or planting in the fall. For information, gcmp.weebly.com.
Enchanting Spring Dish Garden: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, at Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake-Cook Road, Glencoe. Capture the essence of springtime. Combine bulbs in various stages of bloom with textural ferns and moss to get you in the mood for what’s coming soon outdoors. These miniature woodland landscapes can be kept indoors as a centerpiece or outside when the weather warms up. Watch them grow and change, enlivening your tabletops with an early glimpse of spring. All materials included. $99/$124. chicagobotanic.org.
March 20
Prairie Gardens for the Home Landscape: 9 a.m. to noon on three Wednesdays, March 20-April 3, at Morton Arboretum, 4100 Route 53, Lisle. Join Prairie Steward and Master Gardener Cindy Crosby in this class to plan a prairie garden that is beautiful in all four seasons of the year, then take home ideas on how to maintain it. Explore the ideas behind the native plants movement, and discover why what you plant in your yard makes a difference. Learn about native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs that may work well for your yard and understand their light, soil and water needs. Then, proactively plan for some of the difficulties that prairie gardeners encounter, and take home ideas on how to solve these challenges. You’ll leave with a personalized list of prairie plants for your yard, and ideas about where to put them so you are ready for spring native plant sales. $94-$110. For information, mortonarb.org.
Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh will talk about using herbs in your cooking to make it more delicious and enjoyable at the March 21 meeting of the Garden Club of Inverness.
March 21
Garden Club of Inverness — Be an Herbal Gourmet: 9:30 a.m. Thursday, March 21, at All Saints Lutheran Church, 630 S. Quentin Road, Palatine. Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh, is the creator and owner of Backyard Patch Herbs, an online purveyor of salt-free, gluten-free, preservative-free herb cooking and tea products. By adding the most basic herbs to your culinary palette, you can make your cooking more interesting, delicious and enjoyable. Marcy will demonstrate how to create herb mixtures to replace salt in food, and techniques for infusing vinegar, sugar, compound butter and herb paste. Discussion of herbs and samples of herbs included. For information, gardenclubofinverness.com.
Ornamental Edible Plants: Virtually from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, March 21, through the Chicago Botanic Garden. With our garden spaces being “sacred real estate,” why not maximize those spaces with plants that offer both beauty and flavor? Ornamental edibles include a wide range of amazingly handsome plants that offer visual impact and have value in the kitchen. You will learn about a wide range of plant varieties and how to incorporate them into your designs and containers. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before class starts. $32/$40. chicagobotanic.org.
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