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 …