Garden calendar

Garden clubs

• The Garden Club of Mount Prospect hosts Brian Winters of River Trails Nature Center for a lecture "All About Bees." Social hour is 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., business is from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., and the lecture is from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Friendship Park Conservatory, 395 Algonquin Road, Des Plaines. For information, call (847) 635-6239.

• The Rolling Meadows Garden Club hosts Judi Ann Saunders. She will show how to make hummingbird welcome planters from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Rolling Meadows Community Center, 3705 Pheasant Drive, Rolling Meadows. Free admission. (847) 818-3200.

• The Wheeling Garden Club hosts Bernie Horcher of Horcher's Country Flowers to lead a session on creating a "puppy bouquet" at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Cost is $15 per person. (847) 520-0125.

Gardening lectures

• The Growing Place sponsors a series of workshops for a Spring Festival on Saturday and April 13 at 2000 Montgomery Road, Aurora. Some sessions are free and others have a cost. A workshop on low-maintenance gardening is 11 a.m. Saturday and noon April 13. A slide show on "finding your style" is 3 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. (630) 355-4000.

Chicago Botanic Garden

• The Illinois Orchid Society Spring Show & Sale is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.

• Gus Speth reads from and signs his book, "Red Sky at Morning" at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Speth then leads a discussion on "The Coming Transformation: America and the Environmental Future" at 7 p.m. Thursday. No charge.

• The Wisconsin Illinois Lily Society offers a session on creating award-winning floral arrangements in preparation for a flower show at 2 p.m. April 13.

The Chicago Botanic Garden is at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe. Free, but parking is $15. (847) 835-5440 or chicagobotanic.org.

-- Scott C. Morgan