Home & garden calendar, Dec. 7-13

Posted December 04, 2025 4:30 am

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Upcoming

Geneva Garden Club: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Stephen R. Persinger Recreation Center, 3507 Kaneville Road in Geneva. Cristin Adam or Maureen Natonson of The Growing Place will present “Design for Four Seasons.” The program starts at noon following lunch. Guests are welcome. Visit genevagardenclub.com/general-meetings/.

Mount Prospect Garden Club: 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Mount Prospect Police Station, 911 E. Kensington Road. Stephanie Dalton will talk about “Container Design.” The meeting begins with social time, followed by the 10 a.m. business meeting and 11 a.m. speaker. Guests are welcome. Visit gcmp.weebly.com.

Buffalo Grove Garden Club: 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Alcott Center, 530 Bernard Drive, Buffalo Grove. Mary Cantrell of Lake Zurich Florist will share her flair of flower design with a variety of blooms and greens. At the end of the evening, a lucky winner will go home with one of her designs. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. Visit bgparks.org.

Des Plaines Garden Club: 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, in the Frisbee Senior Center, 52 E. Northwest Hwy., Des Plaines. It will be a general meeting with raffles and fun with flowers. Visit desplainesilgardenclub.com or facebook.com/DesPlainesGardenClub/.

Batavia Plain Dirt Gardeners: 6:45 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave. Join the annual potluck dinner and white elephant gift exchange. All are welcome. Visit bataviaplaindirtgardeners.org.

Garden Club of Lake Zurich: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, Ela Public Library, 275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich. Club members and guests will be divided into groups to play plant and garden trivia. Have fun and win some prizes! gardencluboflakezurich.org.

Geneva Garden Club: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, at the Stephen R. Persinger Recreation Center, 3507 Kaneville Road in Geneva. Olivia Lockett of The Brick Chick and CR Schmidt & Mike Anderson from Unilock will present “Hardscape Designs.” The program starts at noon following lunch. Guests are welcome. Visit genevagardenclub.com/general-meetings/.

Rolling Meadows Garden Club: 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, at the Rolling Meadows Community Center, 3705 Pheasant Drive. In “Amazing Succulents!,” Martin Bartz, an educator with the College of DuPage Horticulture Lab will show how to grow, care for, and propagate these easy-to-love plants. All are welcome. Visit rollingmeadowsgardenclub.com for more details.

Workshops

Turn That Patch Into a Plan: 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, on YouTube Live (link provided with registration) with a limited Zoom audience. Thinking about transforming your lawn into a native plant garden but not sure where to start? In this design workshop webinar, experts Zoe Evans (Plan it Wild) and Heather Evans (Design Your Wild) show how to reimagine your entire yard as a place that truly works for both people and wildlife. Discover practical design strategies, like using paths, destinations, and enclosure, that make outdoor spaces more restorative for humans while supporting pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. The workshop will be recorded and available to watch later if you can’t join live. Register: wildones.org/turn-that-patch-into-a-plan/.

Pine Bonsai Workshop: 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, and Wednesday, Jan. 21, at Chicago Botanic Garden’s Bonsai Studio, Grainger Center at Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake-Cook Road, Glencoe. Pines make great bonsai trees and can be styled in many different forms. They have great bark and foliage colors, and are very flexible for styling. Explore basic pine bonsai care, soil type, feeding, needle pruning, de-candling, and wiring of trees. Work on your own pines after an in-depth presentation on care. Led by Chris Baker, curator of bonsai. $49/$62. Register: chicagobotanic.org.

Winterscaping, Beauty in the Quiet Season: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, in the Morton Arboretum Cudahy Room, 4100 Route 53, Lisle. Creating garden landscapes is perhaps the most challenging in winter, when the color palette shrinks and emphasis must shift from colorful blooms to the form and structure of plants. In this talk horticulturist Heather Prince, learn how to evaluate plants for their architecture, their resilience to snow cover, and the simple pleasures of bark and berries — to create a garden that’s interesting to look at all year round. It is for age 16 or older. $42-$49. Register: mortonarb.org.

Garden shows

Super Seed Saturday: Saturday, Jan. 24, at Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake-Cook Road, Glencoe. Hear from experts, explore behind the scenes, swap seeds with gardeners. Free admission to Super Seed Saturday events; preregistration is not required for the Seed Swap. In “Low-Water, High-Yield Gardening for Any Space” from 1-2 p.m., Peg Davis, a farmer, retired agriculture teacher, and heirloom tomato enthusiast, leads a hands-on workshop on subirrigation plantings (SIPs), water-saving systems that help plants thrive in any space. Creator of the heirloom “Peg O’ My Heart” tomato, Davis shares practical, organic methods for growing abundant, flavorful produce with minimal water use. Registration is requested for the free lecture, free tours of the Dixon National Tallgrass Prairie Seed Bank, and the Rare Book Room. Admission is free for Garden members. Regular parking and admission fees apply for nonmembers. Visit chicagobotanic.org.