Enjoy exclusive one-day access to the gardens of this naturally lush Chicago neighborhood. Residents of the neighborhood cultivate their yards with great pleasure and creativity. Rain gardens, koi ponds, English cottage style, and unique specimens abound in this extremely walkable and charming neighborhood. Attendees will find each garden to hold a delightful surprise from carousel horses to lawns transformed into fairy prairies to a family of goats.

Home to a number of master gardeners, Forest Glen is an area of 550 homes bordered by the newly extended North Branch Bike Trail. Forest Glen has a long history of stewarding its outdoor spaces, from its beginnings as part of the Indian Boundary Line, to its time as a cherry orchard, to its vigorous response to Dutch Elm disease, resulting in 600 replaced trees. The woods still hold ancient elms and a picturesque bridge crosses the North Branch of the Chicago River. Today garden volunteers maintain three public gardens, and have raised funds to protect ash trees in the neighborhood.

Transportation: Metra Milwaukee North, Forest Glen stop; CTA Blue Line + Foster Ave bus. Plentiful free parking. Alternate access: North Branch Bike Trail

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