Jeff Patterson

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As the landscape supervisor at the Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Patterson has designed the seasonal light show there for the last nine years. The show runs through Jan. 8. Where do you get ideas for the light show? We try to create what we have in the garden. Most other holiday shows have animated Santas and reindeers, snowmen and big wrapped presents. Here we have big flower forms, animal forms and things in nature. We make 95 percent of our forms in-house. We always look at (visitor comments) to get ideas from the public. Last year somebody asked for an animated beehive, so we made a four-and-a-half-foot-tall animated beehive for this year’s show.

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