Landscape improvements have begun at Courts Plus. The facility’s perimeter landscaping is being refreshed with native plants and low maintenance shrubs that will provide seasonal interest.
This project also includes renovating the outdoor patio near the pool. The area will be replaced with synthetic turf and a more natural-looking retaining wall. Staff is looking forward to this update, which will allow for future programming opportunities in the space.
The first phase of the project will be tree and shrub removal followed by the preparation of the beds for new plantings. The project is scheduled to wrap up in early September.
Some of the plants visitors can expect to see in the new landscape design include:
Trees
- Pagoda Dogwoods
- Chinkapin Oaks
- Forest Rouge Blackhaw Viburnums
Shrubs
- Chicagoland Green Boxwoods
- Buttonbush
- Brilliant Red Chokeberry
- Iroquois Black Beauty Chokeberry
- Coralberries
- Cardinal Red-Twig Dogwood
- Show Off Sugar Baby Forsythia
- Incrediball Storm Proof Hydrangeas
- Twist & Shout Hydrangeas
- Sixteen Candles Summersweet
- Little Henry Virginia Sweetspires
- Taunton Yews
- Spilled Wine Weigela
- Dwarf Artic Willows
Perennials
- Allium Summer Beauty
- Baptisia Cherries Jubilee
- Little Suzy Black-eyed Susans
- Monet Moment Cardinal Flowers
- Ruby Star Purple Coneflowers
- Autumn Frost Hostas
- Sum & Substance Hostas
- All Gold Japanese Forest Grasses
- Lady Ferns
- Super Blue Lavender
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