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2013 Classes

Grow a Cook's Garden, Saturday April 6 from 1 - 3 at The Chicago Botanic Garden.

Coming in May -- Grow a Pizza Garden at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle!

May 21, 6:30 - 8:30 (Registration info will be available in mid April)

Make your own delicious pizza with fresh herbs and vegetables from your garden. This class will cover how to grow tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, onions, rosemary, oregano, basil and other veggies and herbs along with recipes for a variety of pizzas that can be cooked in the oven or on the grill.

For more info on this Web site or upcoming classes, or to schedule a presentation, contact info@thisgardencooks.com or 1-708-217-9357.

Other classes (call or email for more information):

Herbal Tea Gardens

Create a Hummingbird/Butterfly Garden

Cottage Garden Designs for the Midwest

Moon Gardens: What's old is new again

Growing Vertical: Annual & Perennial Vines

The Gardener as Artist: Designing with Plants & Structures

The Changing American Home Garden: 1830 - Present

Growing Edibles: Everything You Want to Know to Harvest Your Own Food

Simple Pleasures--Inspiration for Gardeners

Designing with Color, Texture and Form

Questions or Comments? Email info@thisgardencooks.com

The patio above is planted with Evolution salvia (an All-America Winner selection), sweet alyssum, petunias, red fountain grass, a few pots of Garden Peach tomatoes and basil, lavender and pots of hibiscus and calibrachoa for the many ruby-throated hummingbirds that are present from late April through early October. The color palette is in mauve, purple, pink, violet, rose, blue and white--a nod to my English mother's design sensibilities. No reds or oranges here. Except when you get up to the eggplant-colored arbor, which is surrounded by a deep red salvia--another hummingbird favorite.

Salvia guarantica

Salvia guarantica is my all-time favorite hummingbird nectar plant. It's like Salvia splendens on steroids, sending out its twisty stems in every direction. The hummingbirds in fall migration are wild for the nectar, even moreso that than red salvia.

Swiss Chard - The Kitchen Garden Class

Observe. Reflect. Bloom!