North Shore Garden Club Walk includes Lake Forest Gems

Visit five special gardens in Highland Park and that include inspirational designs filled with beautiful and rare plants on June 20.

In Lake Forest, visit a Mediterranean style house and garden designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1909 featuring a restoration of a sunken garden by Rose Standish Nichols. View Craig Bergmann’s garden at a historic David Adler gate-house that includes formal borders, a shade garden, orchard, motor court and a new swimming pool garden.

In Highland Park, visit a garden club member’s home overlooking Lake Michigan that was designed in 1926 by architect Robert E. Seyfarth and landscaped by Prairie style master Jens Jensen, a landscape architect’s colonial home with lush garden borders nestled against a New England-inspired fence and a ravine waterfall. Also check outa 1905 Prairie style house highlighted by a large porch patio overlooking the front garden and a backyard with multiple seating areas designed with entertaining in mind.

Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the walk. They will be sold on the patio at the Deerpath Inn in Lake Forest.

Net proceeds go to fund scholarships at the College of Lake County, the Chicago Botanic Garden's Green Youth Farm in North Chicago, and other horticultural projects.

To order tickets in advance mail check payable to North Shore Garden Club with a stamped, self-addressed business sized envelope to: North Shore Garden Club 1500 Sheridan Road, #7L, Wilmette, IL 60091

For further information: visit www.northshoregardenclub.org or call (847) 989-6736 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

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