Garden Club of Inverness enters window box at for Chicago flower show

This was the first year that the Garden Club of Inverness entered the Window Box Competition of the Chicago Flower and Garden Show at Navy Pier, March 14-22.

Fourteen Chicago area garden clubs affiliated with Garden Clubs of Illinois entered the competition. This year's theme was "Do Green, Do Good."

The challenge was to transform a standard 36-inch window box into a garden that incorporated color, texture, design, fragrance and height. The show focuses on sustainability and the ways gardening benefits us all.

The Garden Club of Inverness design team, headed by Terry Pagliuzza, decided on an "All Edible Plants" theme. Team members Laura Hoover, Melodie Maroney and Kelly Reynolds used a lemon tree as the highlight and surrounded it with bay trees, many different herbs, creeping lavender, mesclum and of course some pansies.

The Garden Club of Inverness is open to anyone interested in gardening. Annual dues are $30 and all meetings are held at All Saints Lutheran Church, 630 S. Quentin Road, Palatine. The meetings are on the third Thursday of the month from September through May. Each meeting has a program relating to gardening, floral design, ecology and conservation.

For information about Garden Club of Inverness, visit gardenclubofinverness.com.

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