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Gardening in our Corner of the City!

Welcome to our Gardening Page!

We hope you find the information provided, useful to gardening in Edgebrook.

Please feel free to contact the Edgebrook Community Association with any questions you may have.

Consider volunteering with our Beautification-Gardening Team, to help keep our area looking good!!

Sharing our knowledge with our neighborhood Gardeners!!

The Edgebrook Community Association (ECA)- Beautification team are dedicated gardeners…

we are happy to share the tips and tricks we have learned with our neighbors.

Click the link below to find a series of PDF documents we wrote, that discuss gardening issues in Edgebrook.
They provide insights we have learned over the years, that can help you in your efforts of growing a garden around your home!!

From gardening in shade, to info on how to create a successful backyard vegetable garden,

Click here for Garden tips from your neighbors!!

ECA – Transforms our Metra Station!!

        The ECA cleans up the landscaping surrounding the Metra Station! Every spring!

                
  Before – (2018)                
 –                                after – (2023)!!

    
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Edgebrook Community Association – Working to Improve our neighborhood!!

The ECA alone, manages:

  • all the landscaping from the Metra Parking lot, to the Central/Lehigh corner along the Metra Station and tracks!
  • mowing all the lawns along the Train station and tracks
  • regularly picking up garbage thrown from cars along Lehigh
  • maintaining the turnaround on Kinzua Avenue
  • managing a fenced garden along Kinzua
  • and maintaining, weeding and updating the Triangle Garden – created in 1990 when Ald. Roman Pucinski acquired the triangle of land edged by Caldwell, Devon and Lehigh avenues. This land was turned into a critical local Butterfly & Pollinator Garden.

    Click here to JOIN the ECA – and make a difference in Edgebrook!!

    HELP support our efforts to improve public land in Edgebrook!!

Keeping Up With the Triangle-Garden…..

Transforming the garden into a critical Butterfly Waystation!!

Our local Triangle Garden has become a critical resource for migrating butterflies and pollinators.

This garden has evolved over the years, as we continue to fine-tune

the selection of plants available to attract our local bees and butterflies.

Each year, we seek out monarch eggs within our gardens and grow them in our homes,

in an effort to protect them and ensure they make it to adulthood.

So far so good!! Last year we successfully released over 30 butterflies into our skies!!

Every year, we try to do better!!

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AWARDS……won by the Triangle-Garden in last few years!!!

A Certified Monarch Waystation

The Edgebrook Triangle Garden has been certified as a Monarch waystation!!

Check out the details
and learn more about the king of butterflies.

Chicago’s Excellence in Gardening Honorable Mention Award

The Triangle Garden was awarded an honorable mention
in the Chicago City-Wide Excellence in Gardening Awards!!

Read more about this significant honor!
Recent photos from the Garden:

Early Garden Blooms – Christine Rosenberg, photographer

Recent Visit – Christine Rosenberg, photographer
Watch for improvements as we continue to focus on the Metra area, Triangle and along Lehigh.

Our neighborhood Botanic Garden…

Living in Edgebrook means we are not far from the Chicago Botanic Gardens!
Just 15 minutes on the Edens!!
Have you checked out their many Adult Classes?

Botanic Garden Info: Planting a pollinator Strip in your yard