2009 Calendar of Meetings and Events January – Presentation about perennials February – Presentation by landscape architect March – Bus trip to Chicago Flower and Garden Show April – Annual Spring Luncheon and flower arrangement demonstration at the Birchwood Club May – Millennium Park Bus Trip June – Rick Bayless City Herb Garden Bus Trip July – Highland Park Private Gardens Tour August – Merit Prize Awards Luncheon and Chicago Botanic Garden Intern Presentations August – Ball Horticultural Company Bus Trip September – Member Flower Show and Annual Meeting October – Morton Arboretum and Willowbrook Wildlife Center Bus Trip November – Humorist and Master Gardener Mike Nowak December – Annual Holiday Flower Arrangements Service Project

2008 Calendar of Meetings and Events February - Slide lecture garden tour of France March - Behind the Scenes Tour of the Chicago Botanic Garden Production Greenhouse April - Annual Spring Luncheon and flower arrangement demonstration at the Birchwood Club May - Bus Trip to Woodstock - Rich Eyre’s Foxwillow Pines Nursery plus Kimball & Bean Antiques June – Biennial North Shore Garden Club Garden Walk July – Private home and garden on the shores of Bangs Lake in Wauconda August - “Thank You” Garden Walk Volunteer Luncheon August - Merit Prize Award Luncheon and Chicago Botanic Garden Intern Presentations September - Member Flower Show and Annual Meeting at a private lakeside home October – Sunday Brunch at the Birchwood Club November - Presentation by renown landscape designer Craig Bergmann December - Flower Arrangements for Charity

2007 Calendar of Meetings and Events February - Slide lecture by Adele Kleine March - Pasquesi Garden Center in Lake Bluff - New and Award-Winning Plants April - Annual spring luncheon and flower arrangement demonstration at the Birchwood Club May - Bus Trip to the Illinois Institute of Technology & Garfield Park Conservatory “Niki in the Garden” June - Garden of Guillermo Castenllanos, Mito Landscape plus a  private garden in Evanston July - Bus Trip to Racine - Wingspread, Frank Lloyd Wright designed home plus Racine Art Museum August - Merit Prize Award Luncheon and Chicago Botanic Garden Intern Presentations August - Elawa Farm in Lake Forest September - Member Flower Show and Annual Meeting at Ryerson Woods October - Sunday Brunch at Bertucci’s November - Slide lecture about world gardens