Garden Club of Inverness designs window box for Chicago Flower and Garden 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 in March.
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 focused 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, mesclun and some pansies.
The Garden Club of Inverness is open to anyone interested in gardening. Annual dues are $30. Meetings are on the third Thursday of the month from September through May at All Saints Lutheran Church, 630 S. Quentin Road, Palatine. Each meeting has a program relating to gardening, floral design, ecology and conservation.
For information, visit www.gardenclubofinverness.com.
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