The Farms: Arboretum Hosta Garden Tour
Discover inspiring hosta varieties, companion plants, and garden design ideas to bring to your own landscape at an Arboretum Hosta Garden Tour on Saturdays, August 8 or September 12 from 10-11 a.m. at the Illinois Arboretum (1800 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana).
Led by Illinois Prairie Hosta Society (IPHS) members, this tour will include an introduction to not only a huge variety of hosta, but will also include some native plant species, over 50 varieties of companion plants, and an overview of how the garden design has evolved over the years. Students will leave with ideas to take home to their own gardens!
$10/person*. Register here. Registration closes 3 days prior to the tour or when capacity is reached. All sales are final.
*Limited metered parking spots are available in the lot near the Noel Welcome Garden and along South Lincoln Avenue. Additional metered parking is available in the lot south of the Japan House. (Electronic payment only by MobileMeter.) Parking is free after 5 p.m. and on weekends.
Learn more about the space where your course will take place here. If you will need disability-related accommodations to participate, please email owarren@illinois.edu.
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About the Society:
Illinois Prairie Hosta Society (IPHS) was formed in 2004. For several years, they worked with Allerton Park to create an IPHS Hosta Display Garden there; some of that garden is still in existence today and is now a project of Master Gardeners. In 2010, as part of our mission to promote the genus Hosta through a variety of educational means, and at the invitation of the then Director of the Arboretum, Bill Kruideneier, we voted to establish a display garden at the Arboretum. From the fall of 2010, until the spring of 2014, volunteer members of IPHS donated money for hardscape and the purchase of shad companion plants, designed and created a wishlist for plants to be installed in the garden, donated their own mostly originator stock (OS – meaning purchased from the original hybridizer of the plant, or grown from the original plant), and installed, labeled, and maintained the original area of the Garden. In The Hosta Garden at the University of Illinois Arboretum was awarded the American Hosta Society’s (AHS) designation as a National Display Garden
About The Farms
The Farms: An Allerton Folk School, offers classes, workshops, and gatherings focusing on art, outdoor education, science, storytelling, and wellness. All experiences value hands-on, experiential teaching and learning, and are facilitated by and for the members of the community.
Find the complete Fall schedule here.
