Welcome to Keeler Gardens. In today’s post, Gina will escort you on a self-guided tour of the Keeler Gardens Educational Pollinator Habitat. We will be posting three videos from our YouTube Channel. Whether you are walking through the neighborhood today as part of the Irving Park Garden Club Tour or any other day, these videos… Continue reading Tour of the Keeler Gardens Educational Pollinator Habitat. – June 22, 2019
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Pollinator Habitat Almost Ready
The Keeler Gardens Pollinator Habitat Is Taking Shape This summer we have been continuing our work on our new Pollinator Habitat, with the valued help of our seven interns and many volunteers, planting a multitude of Illinois native plants and working on a variety of hardscapes. We have all been laboring to get perennials and annuals… Continue reading Pollinator Habitat Almost Ready
Keeler Gardens Welcomes Summer 2018 Interns
This summer, Keeler Gardens is proud to say we have seven new interns working and learning with us! Four of them are participating through privately funded internships, and three we host through the After School Matters summer internship program. After School Matters works with more than 23,000 companies to provide jobs for more than 15,000… Continue reading Keeler Gardens Welcomes Summer 2018 Interns
What’s up with the Cardboard in the Keeler Gardens Pollinator Habitat?
Pollinator Habitat Progresses We promised you regular updates about the pollinator habitat and we do have news. Let’s start with the apparent mess in the parkway. You may be wondering why it looks like a random dispersion of debris, rest assured there is a method to our madness. Our parkway is presently mostly grass and… Continue reading What’s up with the Cardboard in the Keeler Gardens Pollinator Habitat?
Keeler Gardens Wins Pollinator Habitat Grant
Have you heard the news? Keeler Gardens has won a grant to build a pollinator habitat! The Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation has awarded us up to $10,000 toward the creation of a native pollinator habitat to provide environmental education opportunities for students, and all community members. We will offer visitors to the habitat an… Continue reading Keeler Gardens Wins Pollinator Habitat Grant
The Beauty of Pollination
A garden offers us color and scent and a connection with the amazing wonders of nature. Sometimes we see nature at work — with a pollen covered bee or a butterfly landing on a sweet-smelling flower. These are not rare occurrences; it’s just the capturing of them that is rare. Imagine being able to see… Continue reading The Beauty of Pollination