Garden Walks and Bird Conservation Presentation

7214 South Cass Avenue,Darien IL 60561

01 August, 2022

Description

All are welcome to join us for a TRIPLE garden walk and Bird Conservation Presentation. This event is for all ages, bring the kids, grandkids, and any interested gardener. We’ll tour the DGC Sprouts Learning Garden which includes vegetables, herbs and flowers. The Sprouts Garden was planted and is maintained by DGC Sprouts youth members and their families. Learn more about DGC Sprouts here: DGC Sprouts Nearby the Learning Garden is the DGC Butterfly Garden which is a mostly native plant garden in a parking lot island at the church. The blooms there are ever changing as the summer progresses. It supports many butterflies and native insects all summer and is a great place to catch some of them zipping by and to learn about insect life cycles. The final stop is the DGC daylily garden should be at or near peak bloom. It is a special place where daylilies bequeathed to our club by a former member were saved. The garden is lovingly maintained by our DGC members. We’ll follow the walks with some fresh vegetables, fruit and herb tastings. We’ll sample the ripe vegetables, fruit and herbs right from the DGC Sprouts Learning Garden. Finally, we’ll wrap up the evening with a wonderful presentation given by DGC member and birder extraordinaire, Bob Fisher. He will address what we as gardeners can do to help our local bird population. This presentation will be suitable for the children in attendance as well. Please stay and enjoy picking this birder's brain! Schedule for the evening: 5:30-6:30 Garden walks and tastings 6:30-7pm Social time and continued tastings 7pm Presentation by Bob Fisher, member DuPage Birding Club and Bird Conservation Network The presentation will be hybrid, so if you can’t stay for the entire evening, you can watch it at home. Registration is required so that we can plan on the snacks and to receive the zoom link and recording of the program. Darien residency is NOT required. This is a combined meeting of the DGC and DGC Sprouts Youth Club, but membership is not required to attend. Cucumber and Jack-be-little pumpkin vines that the children planted from seed on May 20th in the St John Learning Garden St John Learning Garden zinnias and other flowers that help to bring the pollinators, also started on May 20th from seed. St John Butterfly Garden started in 2015 by DGC members. The weeds were removed for the most part and native plants have brought in native species including monarch butterflies. Daylily Garden at St. John in full bloom. Fresh cucumber; join us for some tasting after the walks. DGC member and birder extraordinaire, Bob Fisher will end our evening with a presentation on the findings of the Bird Conservation Network 22-year study of local breeding birds. Find out what you and your children can do to conserve our local bird population. Bring all of your bird-related questions. More details here: https://www.bcnbirds.org/trends21/