The University of Illinois Extension DeKalb County Master Gardeners will hold its 17th annual Garden Walk to showcase various gardening styles.
The walk will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July 11 in DeKalb, Sycamore, and Kingston.
The walk features self-guided tours of seven private gardens and a communiversity garden. Master gardeners will be available to answer questions and offer guidance. Attendees are encouraged not to bring pets. Participants also will be encouraged to dress appropriately for the weather.
The gardens featured in the walk include:
• Lang garden: The Lang garden uses a “lasagna gardening” technique to provide easier maintenance and minimize costs. The “heritage garden” plants are placed in composted soil to provide nutrients annually. The garden entrance is a stone arbor with stones used as a patio and garden bed accents. The Land garden also features a vegetable garden and a perennial collection.
• Colopy garden: The Colopy garden is hard-scaped with a stone wall and patio to allow for patio pots containing annuals. The property includes perennials, annuals, trees, and vegetables.
• Schmitt Garden: The Schmitt Garden is surrounded by a dense tree cover, offering birds and wildlife a home. The garden decorations feature flagstones, metal sculptures, day lilies, ferns, Blue Bells, Jack-In-The-Pulpit, Blood Root and Jacob’s ladder. A bridge allows visitors to travel down a path to a river.
Perez Garden: The Perez Garden includes 10 named gardens designed with their own themes. The landscape provides multiple strategically placed benches to create a park–like feel. The gardens also feature a campfire site, blooming trees, perennials, water fountains, and flowering bushes.
Kleinfeldt Garden: The Kleinfeldt Garden offers visitors seasonal relaxation. The garden features a mix of evergreens, birch trees, grasses, hydrangeas and native perennials to attract various pollinators. The property also has Frontenac and Vidal Blanc wine grape vines growing in the corner.
Struthers garden: The Struthers garden’s cottage–style plants attract various bird, butterfly and bee species. Shade- and sun-loving plants, including coneflowers, Rozanne geraniums and black-eyed Susans border the house and the property’s perimeter.Wanek/Barnhart garden: The Wanek/Barnhart garden is designed to offer visitors tranquility and promote a wildlife haven. The landscape is half heavily wooded and partially converted to terraced shade planting and sun native plants, shrubs, and trees. The garden also features a koi pond with adjacent paths and a fire pit.
Rick Johns Memorial Donation Communiversity Garden: The Rick Johns Memorial Donation Communiversity Garden is an experimental teaching garden created to support the local community’s food and nutritional needs. The vegetable garden includes raised beds, rows and plots to produce food for local food pantries. The communiversity garden also uses organic and regenerative technologies and solar-powered technology to support its irrigation system and weather station. The garden is supported by a St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Green Team and an NIU garden interns team.
Wristbands are required. The wristbands are available through 11:30 a.m. July 11 and costs $10. To buy wristbands, visit Blumen Gardens, 403 Edward St., Sycamore; The Garden Market, 2270 Oakland Drive, Sycamore; Glidden Florist, 917 W. Lincoln Highway, DeKalb; or the University of Illinois Extension Office, 1350 W. Prairie Drive, Sycamore. Accepted methods of payment include cash or a check.
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