CALENDAR - Public Events - hELPING OTHERS GROw - caring for gardens

The Garden Walk is held to showcase beautiful gardens on a date between mid-June and early July.  Attendees and volunteers alike experience other gardens and share gardening ideas. A committee identifies the gardens for the event and Master Gardeners are available at each garden to answer questions.

Nothing compares to the tranquility and beauty of taking a stroll through a splendid garden on a summer day! Join the Lake County Master Gardeners on Sunday, June 26, 2022, 10 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. for “A Day in the Gardens” Garden Walk to celebrate the beauty of gardens in Crown Point, Winfield, and Wheatfield, Indiana   The 2022 Garden Walk will be unique. LCMGA presents the rare chance to see the Gardens of the Masters. The walk will feature the gardens of horticulturists, landscapers, and builders. This year's garden walk will showcase a variety of plantings, hardscape, and garden structures that will delight and inspire the home gardener. Get inspiration from the masters! Gather landscaping ideas for your own home as you view shade gardens, perennial beds, native plants, and incredible structures. This is an opportunity to visit gardens that were inspired from landscapes and architecture located all over the world. Master Gardeners and the homeowners will be on-site to answer any questions you may have. Don’t miss the beauty of the day.

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS:  Online starting May 1, 2022, using Eventbrite . When purchasing your ticket on Eventbrite, check-in at the LCMGA table at Wayne Gruber’s garden, 12314 Kingfisher Rd, Crown Point, Indiana, the day of the event to receive your program listing the garden locations. Credit/debit, but please note that online purchases include a $1.49 Eventbrite surcharge.   From our local vendors starting May 26, 2022. The vendors for this year's walk are Leo's in Cedar Lake, Niemeyer's and The Artful Garden in Crown Point, Elzinga's and Walt's in Dyer, Remus Farms in Hobart, and Mighty Mike's in St. John. Cash or check only.  On the day of the walk, June 26, at the LCMGA table at Wayne Gruber’s garden, 12314 Kingfisher Rd, Crown Point, Indiana, or in the morning at our vendors. Cash or check only.  A ticket will be required for anyone over 12 years old.

LCMGA and Purdue Extension do not preferentially recommend one local business over another.

NOMINATE A GARDEN for the 2023 Garden Walk  

Would you like to nominate a garden for the 2023 Garden Walk? Contact us at lakecountymastergardeners@gmail.com.

The Plant Sale is traditionally held mid-spring at the Lake County Fair Grounds. Plants are offered to the public as a means of fund-raising to support the scholarship and grant funds.  Some plants are purchased from commercial growers to satisfy home gardening needs and even more plants are grown and offered by the Lake County Master Gardeners.  Plants include annuals, perennials, herbs, house plants, bulbs, shrubs and even some trees.  All are labeled and Master Gardeners are available in abundance to answer questions.  

The Sale includes a “Trash to Treasures” area where “gently used” gardening items such as flower pots, garden tools, garden art, garden gloves, tomato cages, trellises, rose cones—even gardening books--can be purchased.  Mini-presentations on gardening topics are offered.  

(Photo Courtesy of the Master Gardeners)

Master Gardeners mainly engage in educating others—or “Helping Others Grow”  Sometimes we engage in actual planting, weeding and  maintaining selective gardens that are located throughout Lake County and are accessible to the general public.  Currently we maintain:

• Lake County Fairgrounds:  Pier area gardens at Fancher Lake and the garden at the North entrance to the Fairgrounds.
• Purdue Extension:  Demonstration Garden and other gardens as needed.