I first saw this colorful begonia (Begonia ‘Canary Wing’) in 2017 at the annual Customer Day at the trial gardens at Ball Seed Company in West Chicago, IL (Gardens at …

My blogging has been a bit piecemeal over the last couple of months due to major involvement in helping set up and facilitate our Holiday Light Show (HLS) which has …

The Holiday Light Show (HLS) has been running nicely since opening night on November 23rd.  With only 12 more nights to go in December, consider checking it out and getting …

We had a beautiful layer of snow descend on the gardens overnight as evidenced by the photos in this blog.  Nice shot of snow on a bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) …

We lucked out with some nice warm days in October for both gardening and Holiday Light Show (HLS) set-up duties. November hasn’t quite been as friendly and we’re headed in …

The top photo is from underneath a ‘Green Mountain’ sugar maple (Acer saccharum) that I was near often today as I stretched out more cords for the Holiday Light Show …

The Halloween Walk this early evening seemed very well attended!  We had great volunteer help and it was nice to see all the neat costumes and little ones coming through …

The combination of Larry and ladders (seen directly above) have helped decorate two large evergreens today (and much more!).  Larry, Big John, Terry, Alex, Bobby K., Cindy and I all …

Nice shot above of the fall color on ‘Edelweiss WB’ American larch (Larix laricina) originally found and propagated by our own volunteer, Josef B.!  This compact, deciduous conifer shows off …