Bloom Lockport

Coming up this Wednesday (5/13/26) at the Illinois State Museum Lockport Gallery! Take your gardening AND sustainability skills up a notch! We hope to see you all there 🌱🪏

Bloom Lockport and the Lockport Township Park District are the latest Will County community organizations to launch a community garden initiative, designed to help residents grow their own produce.

Winter check-in from the Route 66 Garden! 🪾

While some of these plants may look dead, they will be back to their vibrant selves within a few months. A few plants, like these serviceberries, are already forming buds! In the meantime, they’ve been providing shelter to local wildlife, like bugs and birds.

Many plants go dormant in the wintertime, slowing down their biological processes and surviving on the fuel they built up during the growing season. They produce their own “antifreeze” to avoid ice damage in their cells, and some types of seeds even require exposure to the cold to help time their germination just right! We’re so excited to see these dormant plants wake up over the coming months!

Bloom Lockport has been in our own winter dormancy as well, preparing for tons of new growth in 2026. We can’t wait to share everything we’re planning for this year, and we hope to see you blooming with us!