Thank you so, so much for everyone's love and support. This has definitely greatly surpassed what we thought it would be, and we couldn't be more thankful.

We've met with Green Grass Landscapers in Downers Grove, who were extremely knowledgeable and took us through the entire property to identify everything my dad planted, and we've just engaged them to do Fall Cleanup, which handles cutting back plants to prepare for them for the winter. We've already got a different local company on board to do regular maintenance. Your help will allow us to utilize Green Grass to handle the huge amount of physical labor that's needed in fall and spring to keep Dad's garden running for at least 2-3 years.

Again, we couldn't be more thankful, and this means so much to us. Thank you all!

Hi everyone, Thank you so, so much for your generous contributions toward maintaning Dad's garden. I'm meeting with Mom tomorrow -- we've already got a landscaping company lined up to continue to care for the garden as summer ends, and I'm doing research into someone more specialized to evaluate the garden and advise on care and adjustments to make it more easily maintainable next year. If anyone has any recommendations in the Chicagoland area, please feel free to reach out (or comment here if that's possible!)