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Enrique and Christian’s Garden Near Chicago
09.08.2023 - 09:15 / finegardening.com / GPOD Contributor
My name is Enrique Zuniga. My husband, Christian Altman, our three dogs, and I live in Forest Park, Illinois (Zone 5b), which is located just west of downtown Chicago. Both Christian and I have had a love of gardening since we were children, but we fully tapped into our inner gardener when we were presented with the opportunity to work with a yard full of turf grass when we moved to our current house in 2017. The vast majority of the yard gets full sun, so we decided to remove large patches of turf grass and plant sun-loving perennials that are mostly native to Illinois.
Since we have done all of the landscaping work ourselves, we have done one garden project each spring/summer since 2017. We spend a lot of time out in the yard with our dogs, so we decided to make the garden as interesting as possible with different colors, shapes, sizes, textures, and smells. Our favorite flowers change throughout the growing season, depending on whether they are attracting hummingbirds, bees, moths, flies, or butterflies.
There is nothing more rewarding than seeing the reaction of visitors to our garden. The garden is at a point where we can dig up and give away volunteer plants to friends and neighbors. Most times they come over to our house to pick up the volunteer plants, and every single person is in awe of what they see when they enter the garden.
Though we are located in a densely populated urban area, we know that the right plants can not only draw in human admirers, but they can lure in the nature that we all need in our lives.
Tidy grass paths lead to lush, healthy plants. Raised beds for vegetables are to the right, with screen sides that keep animals out (and look great while doing so).
Every patch of earth is a place to
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