Greencroft Middlebury on Quilt Gardens Tour

Greencroft Middlebury is again one of the sites in the Elkhart County Convention & Visitors Bureau's Quilt Gardens Tour. The 2010 Greencroft Middlebury quilt garden features the "Bright Hopes" pattern and contains nearly 2,000 pink and red begonias and bright yellow marigolds.  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 Bright Hopes pattern was chosen for its simplicity but more importantly to help give a sense of hope in a chaotic world. In 2009 Greencroft chose the Barn Raising pattern.

The tour, which opened Memorial Day weekend, features 17 large-scale quilt-patterned gardens and 17 oversize quilt art murals in seven communities throughout the area. Some 90,000 annuals are planted in the 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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  • Here's the view of the quilt garden looking north toward Wayne St. (July13)
  • The squares of marigolds have grown taller than the surrounding begonias.
  • The Durango Yellow Marigolds have already burst forth into color! (July 2)
  • The viewing platform allows an even better perspective to see the quilt garden's pattern. It was build by resident Dana Snider and friend Gerald Stutzman.
  • The flowers are in and the garden is already growing. The marigolds are a contrasting green right now, but will soon burst into yellow blooms. (June 8)
  • The
  • The Quilt Garden is a beautiful addition to the attractive Greencroft Middlebury campus.
  • The locations were carefully marked and fertilized before the flowers were planted.
  • Greencroft staff and volunteers planted the quilt garden. Here they beginia with the first begonia.
  • The garden uses over 1,800 flowers, primarily Eureka Pink Green Leaf Begonias and Eureka Red Bronze Leaf Begonias, along with six blocks of Durango Yellow Marigolds.
  • The pattern is plotted out and the flowers are ready to be planted! (May 25)
  • This wall hanging shows the

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