Hyde Park Garden Fair Committee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Joy Rosner, Tel: 773-=241-6943, e-mail joyrosner@aol.com Annual Hyde Park Fall Fair Brings Color to Your Garden, Now and Later

Annual Hyde Park Fall Fair

Brings Color to Your Garden, Now or Later

Hyde Park Garden Fair's Fall Fair takes place this year on Saturday, October 2 at the Hyde Park Shopping Center, 55th and Lake Park. Shopping hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The fair offers chrysanthemums, aster and flowering kale to enjoy this fall, and bulbs to plant before the first frost for spring color. Many varieties of tulips, narcissus, and crocus are available. These spring staples are complemented by hyacinth, alliums, fritillaria, scilla, Dutch iris, dwarf iris, bearded iris, lilies, and specialty bulbs, as well as collections of bulbs for planting. Bulbs for forcing, and selected house plants are also offered.

The plants are personally selected for city gardening conditions by experienced members of the Garden Fair Committee from trusted Chicagoland growers and nurseries. The bulbs are ordered and shipped from the Netherlands. At the fair, local gardeners offer advice about selection, planting and cultivation.

The proceeds of the spring and fall fairs support the activities of the Hyde Park/Kenwood Community Conference, a community organization dedicated to maintaining and enhancing an attractive, secure, diverse, and caring community through a variety of public programs and initiatives.

The Garden Fair Committee supports the beautification of the neighborhood with donations of plants to schools, houses of worship, and other institutions, as well as to parkways; hanging baskets for the 53rd St. business district; and volunteer gardeners who maintain local park areas such as the Wildflower Meadow in Nichols Park.

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