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EVENTS Calendar

A Bloomin’ Festival

Friday, May 14
Members only: 1 to 4 p.m.
Open to public: 4 to 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 15, and Sunday, May 16
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Special Preview Evening: Thursday, May 13, 4 to 7 p.m.
(Tickets available online beginning April 1, 2010)

Join the Garden today.

A new addition to the Garden's annual A Bloomin' Sale, A Bloomin' Festival offers a lovely springtime market featuring helpful gardening tips and demonstrations, along with live music and vendors selling baked goods, fresh honey, pottery, mushrooms, gardening tools, and much more. Family drop-in activities will also be available on Saturday and Sunday.

A BLOOMIN' SALE

This year marks the 44th annual A Bloomin' Sale. More than 30,000 annuals, ferns, fruit and vegetable plants, geraniums, herbs, native wildflowers, ornamental grasses, perennials, roses, shade perennials, shrubs, and vines will be available. If you're a gardener, you'll want to choose among the incomparable array of plants on sale at this popular annual Garden event.

FESTIVAL VENDORS

• Craig Bergmann Landscape and Design, Inc.: tabletop topiary and assorted plants
• Green Youth Farm and Windy City Harvest: organically grown fresh produce
• Garden Shop: gardening books, tools, gloves and hats—for children, too!
• Sharpening by Dave: spring sharpening for garden tools
• Culinary Landscapes: lunch items and beverages
• Benjamin Carroll: pottery; horticultural pottery
  
• Made from Mud: handmade pottery

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
	Friday, May 14	1:30 p.m.	Emily Shelton Rooftop Gardens
		3 p.m.	Nancy Clifton Containers: Spring Blooming and Beyond
		5 – 7 p.m.	Live music
	Saturday, May 15	11 a.m.	Rick Belding Raised Vegetable Beds
		1 – 3 p.m.	Live music
	Sunday, May 16	11 a.m.	Tim Pollack Colorful and Edible Container Gardening
		1 – 3 p.m.	Live music