Dedicated to gardening, flower arranging and community beautification  

Our goals are to: 

Stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening.

• Various meetings have professionals who give a wide range of educational topics on gardening.

• Members share their knowledge of “how-to” and other gardening ideas.

• Our own club library has a wide range of books that may be borrowed.

Encourage artistic use of flowers.

• Through speakers and workshops, we learn a variety of arrangements using fresh and dried plant material to encourage artistic use of flowers. 

Promote civic beautification.

• The Garden Club has planted and maintained 5 gardens throughout the village. By working with the Buffalo Grove Park District, we have donated trees, shrubs and flowers.

• The club instituted placing in honor of our military a “BLUE STAR MEMORIAL” along with a formal garden.

Conserve native trees, birds and plant life.

• Donations are made toward state wildflower planting programs, a state scholarship fund, and Nature Conservancy. We also offer college scholarships to local students studying in horticulture, conservation and landscape related fields.

Host Plant Sale.

• An annual plant sale to fund our many community projects.

Have Fun!

• In addition to monthly meetings or workshops, we also have a summer garden luncheon, winter holiday party and spring dinner.  
  

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BUFFALO GROVE GARDEN CLUB HOSTING 17TH ANNUAL PLANT SALE

The Buffalo Grove Garden Club is hosting its 17th annual plant sale.  The public is invited to attend the popular Cash and Carry portion of the sale.  This year’s sale features a wide variety of annual bedding plants, perennials, baskets, planters, accent plants, savory herbs, and for the first time ever, two popular varieties of tomato plants.  All plants are offered at very competitive prices and again this year the Club will feature many Proven Winners ®.

The Club continues its 39 years of support for the community by working in collaboration with Bob Lube to raise money for the Buffalo Grove Police Department’s Special Olympic fund.  Rose bushes donated by local merchants will be available for sale and all proceeds from the rose sale will be donated to Special Olympics.

Sale hours are 10:00 am to noon on Saturday, May 17, 2008, at the Alcott Center, 530 Bernard Drive, Buffalo Grove.  Those customers that have placed pre-orders may pick up their plants at the same time.

Master gardeners will be available to answer questions and assist in selecting plant material.

Proceeds from the plant sale fund the Club’s most important projects:  the annual scholarship program, the purchase, planting, and maintenance of several public gardens in Buffalo Grove , and speakers at monthly meetings, to which the public is invited.

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JOIN US AT THE ALCOTT CENTER
530 BERNARD ROAD
BUFFALO GROVE, IL

Meetings are held at 7:00 P.M., the second Tuesday of the month except July and August.  

Regular Meeting Features include:

• A guest speaker or workshop

• Presentations on horticultural topics 

• A social period with refreshments to meet fellow gardeners

Buffalo Grove Garden Club Meeting Schedule

April 

On Tuesday, April 8, 2008, the Buffalo Grove Garden Club will hold its installation dinner for new board members.  This is closed to the general public. 

MAY

On Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 7:00 p.m., Mike Novack from WGN Radio will talk on "Good Planets Are Hard to Find" at the Buffalo Grove Garden Club.  Mike always makes us laugh.  The meeting will be held at the Alcott Center , 530 Bernard, Buffalo Grove presented by the Buffalo Grove Garden Club.  For more information about the garden club's programs, please contact Sylvia Ney, club president, at bgbloomer@aol.com or Sandy Smith at sandy910@comcast.net.

JUNE

On Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 7:00 p.m., the Buffalo Grove Garden Club will be sponsoring Beth Ford and Daniel Stober from Sylvia's Flower in Arlington Heights .  The program will be on "Fun and Simple Summer Floral Arrangements”.   This meeting will be held at Indian Trails Library in Wheeling , 355 Schoenbeck Road , Wheeling .   For more information about the garden club's programs, please contact Sylvia Ney, club president, at bgbloomer@aol.com or Sandy Smith at sandy910@comcast.net.

JULY AND AUGUST

There are no meetings during July and August since the members will be busy in their own gardens."

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For Further Information Contact:
Kathy Monroe
Membership Chairman
kjmonroe49@comcast.net