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Voting Category: Best Pollinator Garden
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Best Curb Appeal Garden
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Best Backyard Oasis
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Best Pollinator Garden
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Alexya Aguilera, Portage Park
Our garden on Laramie can be a little wild and little messy sometimes but is full of life. Our pollinator garden hums with bees, bursts with native blooms, and gives birds a place to land and snack all winter long. An occasional hummingbird zips by and delights us, garter snakes weave through the yard and spook us regularly, the dog has his favorite dirt patch to roll in where grass may never grow again, and our toddler picks her zinnias, tomatoes, and handfuls of basil—there’s something for everyone in our little backyard world.
Alexya Aguilera, Portage Park
Alexya Aguilera, Portage Park
Alexya Aguilera, Portage Park
Alexya Aguilera, Portage Park
James Armstrong, Albany Park
Our pollinator garden of Illinois natives is watered by rainwater, collected from our roof gutter and a French drain from the backyard. It's attracted bees, butterflies, and other bugs, which in turn has even attracted bats in the summertime, leading to the addition of a bat house.
James Armstrong, Albany Park
James Armstrong, Albany Park
James Armstrong, Albany Park
Noreen Czosnyka, Jefferson Park
Prairie plants, each plant has a market with the name of the plant to help educate the public. Bird bath made of recycled copper and the base is an antique chimney pot with a split sprinkler for bird baths. Coconut coir for ground cover.
Noreen Czosnyka, Jefferson Park
Noreen Czosnyka, Jefferson Park
Noreen Czosnyka, Jefferson Park
Noreen Czosnyka, Jefferson Park
Scott Gerwitz, Belmont Cragin
I started this native garden in 2020. It helped me to finally get out of the house after the lockdown and allowed me to meet so many of my neighbors. There is a lot of TLC in this garden.
Scott Gerwitz, Belmont Cragin
Scott Gerwitz, Belmont Cragin
Scott Gerwitz, Belmont Cragin
Scott Gerwitz, Belmont Cragin
Marcela Haber-Bishop, Edgewater
I'm on a corner lot so I have a 2 rather large areas. One is newer then the other, but both at least 80% or more native pollinator gardens, along with non-native gardens around the house. My goal was to create an educational garden for neighbors to see what is possible using natives in landscapes and to create a pollinator friendly way station which can feed our many beneficial insects and birds.
Marcela Haber-Bishop, Edgewater
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