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Welcome to our Home page.
Meet our members, gardens, and community.

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Members arrange speakers, presentations, interactive activities, centered around our  environment. Examples are:

  • About Succulents

  • Our Mushroom World

  • Attracting Birds to our Yards

  • Chicago Region Trees Initiative

  • Small Garden Design

  • ​Gardening for a Lifetime

  • Dragonflies and Damselflies

Members plant at various community gardens during the summer months: 

  • Blue Star Marker Garden

  • Dupage Children's Museum Garden

  • Paw Paw House Gardens at Naper Settlement 

  • Trinity Community House Garden

  • Veterans Park Gardens

  • Almost Home Kids

Every year the Cress Creek Garden Club awards several merit scholarships to high schoool and/or college students in the horticultural or environmental fields. Recipients are honored at a luncheon in June. 

A regular outreach program conducted by dedicated members to bring cheers to others with a variety of garden related activities. 

April/May 2025 Video of donations presented by Cress Creek Garden Club to various community organizations. 


The Spring Fundraiser is a Plant Sale in May with Pre-orders taken in February/March.

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The Club's Fall Fundraiser is held in November. It helps fund the scholarship program, donations to non-profit organizations in the area, and plantings at community gardens. 

Club Activities

Cress Creek Garden Club members walk in the 2025 Naperville Labor Day Parade.

Awards

May 20, 2025 at the city council meeting
Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli announced a proclamation for Cress Creek Garden Club's outstanding work on community gardens and volunteer. He also honored Cress Creek Garden Club's 50 year anniversary for 2025. 

Cress Creek Garden Club won sixteen Garden Clubs of Illinois awards on April 27, 2025. This includes Garden club of the Year Award for large clubs. Watch this video on our fantastic accomplishments. 

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