Extension offers training and hands-on volunteer opportunities. Become a: Master Gardener Master Composter Master Naturalist

We are pleased to be a part of the Bowmanville Garden Walk!

investing in youContact rwolford@illinois.edu 773-233-2900 or cook.extension.uiuc.edu

Learn about soils, plants, vegetables and fruits. Tend to your community garden, and earn a certificate.

Saturday July 7, 201210am to 4:30pm

Saturday July 7, 201210am to 4:30pm

Bowmanville Garden Walk

14th Annual14th Annual

Photo: “Sweet Home Bowmanville” by Susan Sell

Learn from Univ. of Illinois Extension master gardeners

Strollcaptivating residential and community gardens

View the garden photography exhibition

S A V E T H E D A T E !

Next Year’s

Bowmanville Garden Walk takes place on

July 13, 2013Our 15th Annual

Official Guide

14th Annual

Bowmanville Garden WalkWelcome to Bowmanville! Thank you for attending our 14th Annual Garden Walk.

This year there are 20 locations to visit.

Don’t miss the BCO Garden Photography Contest exhibit at location 3.

Garden Walk JudgesPatricia Morin

Pierre Poinsett

Reuben Rios

Master GardenersVisit our “Ask a Master Gardener” table at location 1.

Patricia Pinianski Jeannie Radek

Jackie Tanaka Beata Welsh

Garden Walk Judges and Master Gardeners appear courtesy of the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener Program.

The Bowmanville Community Organization

is a not for profit neighborhood organization

formed in 1987. The BCO’s purpose is to facilitate

communication within the community, with

local officials, and with other organizations to

ensure that the interests of the members of the

community are being addressed.

The BCO organizes resident members to engage

in and carry out activities which nurture a

community spirit. These include community

planning and development, safety, gardening,

newsletter & internet communications, and

various social events.

About The Bowmanville Garden Walk

1 Bowmanville at Bell Green space on N. side of street Get maps & programs, buy lemonade, “Ask a Master Gardener” table

2 5314 N Bell Front yard only 2011

3 5361 N Bowmanville Ave Front & back & Photo Exhibit 2008

4 5357 N Bowmanville Ave Front & back

5 2329-2339 W Berwyn West Gate Community Garden (Corner and bump outs)

6 2201 W Berwyn Front & back 2010

7 5249 N Leavitt Street Front & back

8 2156 W Farragut Front & back

9 2144 W Farragut Front & back

10 2142 W Summerdale Front yard only

11 2159 W Balmoral Front North & West sides

12 5386-5410 N Bowmanville Bowmanville Community Garden (North side of street)

13 5416 N Hoyne Front & back patio Enter back from rear walkway 2007

14 1956 W Summerdale Front & back

15 1947 W Berwyn Front & back

16 1928 W Foster Front & back 2006

17 1909 W Farragut Front & back

18 5318 N Ravenswood # 105 Back patio Enter garden via alley S. of bldg.

19 5345 N Ravenswood Gateway Community Garden Get maps & programs Veg. plots & Berwyn Tunnel Mural

20 1826 W Summerdale Front & back 2009

Address Location Best in of Garden Show

The 2012 Bowmanville Garden Walk features 16 residential gardens and three community gardens. The Bowmanville Community Garden, (map location 12) is the 1st place winner from 2009 in Mayor Daley’s Community Landscape Award program (Region 2, Community Landscape.) The Gateway Garden (location 19) features vegetable plots and a central gathering area pergola. Just south of the Gateway Garden is the Berwyn Mural Pedestrian Tunnel Community Art Project.

Gardens are reviewed on various criteria including design, creative use of plants, neighborhood enhancement and gardener hospitality.

BCO welcome tables with program maps will be located at the community green space at Bowmanville and Bell and at Berwyn & Ravenswood (across from the entrance to the Berwyn Mural Art Tunnel.)

The BCO accepts contributions, and all funds received during the Garden Walk are used to improve the Community Gardens and beautify the neighborhood.

We are grateful for the support of the following individuals and businesses: North Community Bank, Gethsemane Gardens, Kafka Design, Pauline’s Restaurant, Ben’s Noodles & Rice, Noreen Palinkas, Kate Connor, Craig Hanenburg, Tom Kennedy, Billy Kuczek, Diana Leifer, Robert Nicklas, John Paraoan, Claire Shingler, and all the BCO Garden Walk Volunteers.

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2012 Bowmanville Garden Walk Photography ExhibitThe Bowmanville Garden Walk hosts a garden photography contest, now in its sixth year. Visit 5361 N. Bowmanville (map location 3) to view the entries and vote for your favorite. (One voting ballot per visitor please.)

Title Photographer Camera1. Bowmanville Foster’s Love David Johnston LG VM670 3.2MP

2. It’s easy being green Nick Sell Kodak Easyshare

3. Bounce into Bowmanville Charlie Sell Kodak Easyshare

4. A year of the good life Sue Sell Kodak Easyshare

5. Butterfly Bliss Alan Kaminski Pentax Optio 555

6. Rosas Maria R. Velasquez Kodak Digital 12MP

7. Oriental Lily Maria R. Velasquez Kodak Digital 12MP

8. Jillian’s Garden Ashley Kosztya T-Mobile My Touch 4G 8MP

9. Adrian in the Snow Ashley Kosztya T-Mobile My Touch 4G 8MP

10. Little Beauties Ashley Kosztya T-Mobile My Touch 4G 8MP

11. Spring Colors 2012 Ashley Kosztya T-Mobile My Touch 4G 8MP

12. Easter 2012 Ashley Kosztya T-Mobile My Touch 4G 8MP

13. Garden Duet Craig Hanenburg Apple iPhone 3G

14. Pinnacle of Mr. Rose’s Hill Craig Hanenburg Apple iPhone 3G

15. Glistening Craig Hanenburg Apple iPhone 3G

16. The Colors of Bowmanville Craig Hanenburg Apple iPhone 3G

17. Golden Flag Craig Hanenburg Apple iPhone 3G

18. Duguid Manor Billy Kuczek Apple iPhone 4

19. Alley Trio Billy Kuczek Apple iPhone 4

20. For You Billy Kuczek Apple iPhone 4

21. Caged Beauty Billy Kuczek Apple iPhone 4

22. Afternoon Rain Billy Kuczek Apple iPhone 4

23. Through Beatrice’s Eyes Nick Sell Kodak Easyshare

Think about entering your photographs next year! The most popular entry wins a prize

and will be featured in next year’s Garden Walk

publicity materials.

Garden Walk Course MapVisit the welcome tables at locations 1 and 19.

Purple Beauty by Leavett Wofford

Bowmanville Community OrganizationBCO

www.bcochicago.orgtoll-free 866-837-1006

14th Annual

Bowmanville Garden Walk

Pierre Poinsett is an eight-year veteran of the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener (MG) program. 2012 marks the fifth year he will be a judge for the Bowmanville Garden Walk. He

recently shared, “I am excited to participate in what is always a highlight to my gardening summer. This event is the coolest gardening-inspired activity I do each year.”

Pierre is in his fourth year as one of the volunteer MG’s at the Museum of Science and Industry’s Smart Home exhibit. In recent years, he has transformed an underused plot at Grant-White grade school in Forest Park to a perennial garden enjoyed by students and the community. He also operates a business called Intimate Gardens, Inc. that serves residential and commercial gardens. “We create garden rooms,” is the company’s motto. In 2005, Pierre became a Master Composter. He has conducted numerous gardening and composting presentations in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Patricia Morin is a 2012 graduate of the Chicago Master Gardener program (MG). She is also a former resident of the Bowmanville neighborhood, living on Farragut Ave from 2002 to 2004. Patricia has a lifelong love

of gardening, having inherited her “stick a plant where there’s an empty spot” gardening philoso-phy from her mom. Her windows were usually difficult to open because of the window boxes and flower pots in the way.

Patricia’s involvement with community gardens predates her Master Gardener certification. She led a team which created a 2400 square foot garden at Randolph Elementary School in Englewood. She advised neighbors starting a community garden in the Brynford Park neighborhood, and headed development of a raised bed vegetable garden at Edgebrook Lutheran Church which supplies a food pantry. Patricia is particularly fond of container gardening and maintains over 50 pots and other containers surrounding her home.

Reuben Rios loves to plant and grow things and will grow them whereever he can find a space, usually in contain-ers indoors and in the yards of friends and relatives. He got involved with the University of Illinois

Extension Master Gardener program to learn how and why plants grow and to learn what he can do to best maintain them.

In addition to being a certified Chicago Master Gardener (MG) Reuben is an Openlands certified TreeKeeper. He loves horticulture study and helps others learn how to care for and grow healthy beautiful plants. Last year Reuben was at our “Ask a Master Gardener” table and this year he is returning to be a judge.

“ Ask a Master Gardener”

2012 Bowmanville Garden Walk Judges

Patricia Pinianski had been a lucky self-taught gardener for 30 years when she took the Master Gardener training and became an educated gardener. Her backyard reflects her love for bright colors and varying textures. She’s never met a flower or plant that she didn’t like or want to buy. She is now pursuing a Certificate in Green Homes and Gardens from the Chicago Center for Green Technology. She has given workshops for gardeners of the Winthrop Family Garden and for interested 47th Ward gardeners. She’s hoping to organize a garden club in her area of Lakeview.

Jeannie Radek is a newly certified Master Gardener (spring 2012). She is a transplant from the DuPage County Master Gardener program where she volunteered at DuPage Convalescent Home, Garfield Park Conservatory, Peterson Community Garden, Three Brothers Garden and several middle school planting programs. She as-pires to become a Master Naturalist if accepted this year. Jeannie has been an interior decorator and designer by profession and her passion outdoors is for designing gardens with water features. She prefers ornamental gardens to vegetable gardens for their fragrance and color and loves making her own garden a bird and butterfly sanctuary.

Jackie Tanaka became involved with the Master Gardener Program with the Class of 2009 at Garfield Park Conservatory and resides in East Rogers Park where she gardens in her backyard, and grows veggies at the Schreiber Park Community Garden and Peterson Garden. She volunteers at several locations around town, including Smart Home Garden at the Museum of Science & Industry, Garfield Park Conservatory, Schwab Rehabilitation Institute rooftop garden and the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio.

Beata Welsh is a garden consultant and a Master Gardener since 2002. She has home gardened in the North of Howard area since 1978. Beata has a certificate in Ornamental Plants from the Chicago Botanic Garden and a certificate in Green Landscaping from the Chicago Center for Green Technology. Her additional and ongoing training is in garden design and sustainability. Her major area of focus is sustainable gardening using native plants and rain gardens. Beata volunteers in community gardens located both North of Howard Street and in Evanston, and is a member of the Green Team at St. Nicholas Parish in Evanston.

The University of Illinois Extension Program is providing Master Gardeners to answer your questions. Stop by the “Ask a Master Gardener” table at Bowmanville and Bell (map location 1.)

This nationwide program is a vital link in getting horticulture information to the public.

Master Gardeners Patricia Pinianski and Jackie Tanaka

Extension offers training and hands-on volunteer opportunities. Become a: Master Gardener Master Composter Master Naturalist

We are pleased to be a part of the Bowmanville Garden Walk!

investing in youContact rwolford@illinois.edu 773-233-2900 or cook.extension.uiuc.edu

Learn about soils, plants, vegetables and fruits. Tend to your community garden, and earn a certificate.

Saturday July 7, 201210am to 4:30pm

Saturday July 7, 201210am to 4:30pm

Bowmanville Garden Walk

14th Annual14th Annual

Photo: “Sweet Home Bowmanville” by Susan Sell

Learn from Univ. of Illinois Extension master gardeners

Strollcaptivating residential and community gardens

View the garden photography exhibition

S A V E T H E D A T E !

Next Year’s

Bowmanville Garden Walk takes place on

July 13, 2013Our 15th Annual

Official Guide