Greencroft Middlebury on Quilt Gardens Tour

Greencroft Middlebury is one of the sites in the Elkhart County Convention & Visitors Bureau's 2009 Quilt Gardens Tour. The Greencroft Middlebury quilt garden features the “Barn Raising” pattern and contains over 3,500 white and scarlet begonias in a 24 by 36 foot bed. Greencroft residents, staff and volunteers helped plan, plant and maintain the garden.

Come back to this page throughout the summer as the photo gallery updates the garden's changes. Click on a photo below to see a larger image.

The Barn Raising pattern brings to mind rural life, cooperative effort, and community support and relates to the Amish life prevalent in and around Middlebury.

The tour, which opened May 25, features 16 large-scale quilt-patterned gardens and 12 oversize quilt art murals in seven communities throughout the area. It includes all the garden sites on the 2008 tour plus four new ones and two new murals. Some 80,000 annuals are planted in the 2009 gardens.

In 2008, its first year, the tour attracted national recognition. The Sunrise pattern quilt garden at the Old Bag Factory in Goshen was named a finalist in the Chicago Tribune's 2008 "Glorious Gardens Contest" and the American Bus Association listed the tour as one of the Top 100 Events in North America for 2009.

More information on the Quilt Gardens Tour and photos are available online at QuiltGardensTour.com

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  • The flowers have been cleared and the bed is ready for next year's quilt garden. (Nov. 2009)
  • People from the area and from far away are still coming to see the
  • These hardy red and white begonias continue to give it their best.
  • Come enjoy the brilliance of the garden as the leaves begin to provide additional colors.
  • It's a
  • Now some 12 weeks since its planting, the quilt garden continues to fill in. (Aug. 11)
  • The flowers continue to fill out the Barn Raising quilt pattern.
  • Visit the garden in the friendly setting of Greencroft Middlebury. (July 29)
  • Raindrops sparkle on the plants after a morning shower.
  • The garden at Greencroft MIddlebury continues to fill out.
  • Neat rows of red and white begonias...
  • ... mark the diamonds of the Barn Raising quilt pattern.

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