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Season's Final Garden Tour, Symphony Concert Set for Sunday in Wicker Park

By Alisa Hauser | September 10, 2014 12:43pm
 A garden tour and a classical concert by members of the Symphony Sounds string quartet
Wicker Park Garden Tour, Symphony Sounds Concert
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WICKER PARK — If you haven't had a chance to go on a guided tour of the neighborhood's namesake park gardens or enjoy an outdoor classical music concert, your last opportunity to take in both events is Sunday.

Scheduled for 10 a.m. Sunday, a free garden tour, the last one scheduled for the season, will take attendees on a walk through the park's 10,000 square feet of gardens, followed by an 11 a.m. classical music concert by the Symphony Sounds Quartet.

Established in 1987, the park's lush, well-maintained gardens have snagged several awards from the city as well as from former Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. Pat Quinn, said Doug Wood, president of the Wicker Park Garden Club. 

Wood, along with a core team of volunteers, tends to the gardens inside the park at 1425 N. Damen Ave.

Wood said the tour will highlight the plants and design of the gardens, which offer "hardy hibiscus, big white flowers that are blooming now," as well as ornamental flowers, such as nicotiana mutabilis, a pink and white flowering plant at the center of the park's rose gardens.

Reaching tall heights, the nicotiana mutabilis was described as "a Brazilian show-stopper" on a perennial website.

After the tour, which takes place at the same time as the weekly Sunday Wicker Park Farmers Market, the Symphony Sounds String Quartet (violinists Ryan Leckel
 and Julia Birnbaum
, violist Dominic Johnson and 
cellist Sarah Marsh) will present their last concert of the season. 

Scheduled for 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the concert will feature seven works by South American composers. 

Visit the Wicker Park Advisory Council's website for the complete program and performer bios.

Though the garden tour, presented by the Chicago Park District, the Wicker Park Advisory Council and the Wicker Park Garden Club is free, RSVPs are appreciated at wpgarden@aol.com. The tour will begin at the Damen and Schiller avenues park entrance.

For more information on the Wicker Park gardens, visit www.wickerpark.org.

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