Gardens in Hyde Park with links and some events/opportunities dates A service of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference and its website, www.hydepark.org. Help support our program: Join the Conference!

Learn more about gardening at the Hyde Park Garden Fair website Watch for the next gardening lecture series.

GreenCorps' community garden vegetable distribution day is May 19, flowers June 30. Don't miss the Hyde Park Garden Fair spring sale May 18 and 19 in HP Shopping Ctr.
Clean and Green is May 5 2007.
May 10 South East Chicgo Commission is giving away 86 dwarf mugo pines to local non-profit organizations, institutions, parks andschools 8:30 to 10:30 53rd at Nichols Park. Must have letter attesting org.

Near 56th Street and Kenwood	Near 56th and Dorchester
Greenwood and 54th	Woodlawn at 56th
The Hyde Park Garden Fair Committee keeps up the strip gardens along the City Lot on Lake Park and 53rd

Mayor Daley's Landscape Awards (including fall 2004 to Regents Park roof garden), garden volunteer opportunities, natural planting tips are in the Green page. See also Burnham Prairie Trail.

See results around the neighborhood from South East Chicago Commission/U of C beautification grants, such as the flowers south of Kimbark and 51st (common Corporation, which more than matched their grant), and from the Garden Fair. The Garden Fair received the Good Neighbor award in 2004 from the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club.

Enhancement Grant applications are solicited through February and announced March each year. 773 324-6926.

Be sure to see the enlarged, gorgeous garden and smaller vegetable garden of Ray School, near 56th and Kenwood. It has a plaque (not yet installed) in remembrance of Amanda Carter, child victim of a hit and run in 1990.

More gardens!

More gardens in Parks/Other Parks and Open Space

Suite of park photo galleries- index in the Park News web home, incl. Nichols

Green and beautification news and events in Park News web home,

Green news, directory, calendar

LILAC. Lake Park Corridor greening

See park and green links in Parks/Other Links and the green page

Osaka Garden Festival on Jackson Park's Wooded Island, September 3rd weekend

Our Hyde Park Garden Fair Committee page (Spring Sale May 14-14, Fall Mum and Bulb Sale September 17), Hyde Park Garden Fair's website

Hyde Park and Kenwood Home and Garden Tour coming September 2_, 2005?

If you know of a garden that deserves to be added to this page, please let us know! Also, the Hyde Park Garden Fair wants to know and put such gardens up on its website-find out how to contact them.