"Learn. Grow. Travel."
"Learn. Grow. Travel."
What started out as a simple plant exchange in 1925 has grown into today's Shippan Point Garden Club May Market This year you’ll find: • Stunning one-of-a-kind planters 🌸 • Locally grown plants straight from members’ own gardens 🍃 • Annuals, perennials, herbs, and veggies 🍅 • Gorgeous hanging baskets ✨ • Lunch and baked […]
Say goodbye to boring mulch and hello to a living carpet of flowers and foliage! Let horticulturist Dr. Duncan Himmelman introduce you to a versatile mix of resilient native plants—and a few well-behaved exotics—that act as living mulch, nourishing soil, suppressing weeds, retaining moisture, and attracting wildlife. He’ll show you how to select and combine the right plants […]
Enjoy a spectacular trip through the gardens of the Brandywine Valley for four nights and five days. Stops during the trip include the Mansion at Andalusia, Winterthur, Mt. Cuba Center, Jenkins Arboretum, Chanticleer, Valley Flowers, Tyler Arboretum, Longwood Gardens, Greenwood Gardens and more! You'll be staying at the Mendenhall Inn. Cost: $1749 pp double / […]
It’s off to charming Maine! Travel with Friendship Tours and Federated Gardens Clubs of Connecticut for a three-night, coastal Maine trip packed with sites, gardens, and delightful dining. We focus on Boothbay, Wiscasset, and Portland Maine where we meet our Maine garden club friends! Come along and enjoy the fun! We’ll be stopping at New […]
Support the Gardeners of Simsbury! Bring home something for Mother's Day or get your flats and hanging baskets. Vegetables, herbs, perennials, natives and more!
Gardens of Andalusia May 8-19, 2026 Step into a world of fragrance, color, and timeless beauty on this unforgettable Gardens of Andalusia tour from May 8-19, 2026. Friendship Tours and Minnesota State Horticultural Society are hosting the 12-day journey through southern Spain’s most enchanting cities and landscapes, where Moorish palaces, aristocratic villas, and coastal hideaways […]
Continuing its illustrious tradition, on Friday, May 8th from 12:00-6:00pm, and Saturday, May 9th from 10:00am-2:00pm, the Wilton Garden Club will hold its 87th annual Mother’s Day Plant Sale at the Wilton Town Center gazebo. This event will be held rain-or-shine, and this year will be fully tented! Whether looking for the perfect gift for […]
Nationwide, three million acres are lost each year to non-native invasive plants. Removal is expensive & time-consuming. Learn what makes these plants so damaging and how gardeners can restore ecological balance to our neighborhoods. This lecture is part of a series in memory of Marcia Reid Marsted. The lecture series has been designed by the […]
The Essex Garden Club's May Market has been a major Springtime event in Essex for more than 70 years. This most important fundraising event for the club began as a small plant sale across from the Griswold Inn and has grown into a garden extravaganza now held in the Town Park. It features annuals, members' […]
Perennials, annuals, herbs, veggies, hanging baskets, natives, fresh flower arrangements, garden-themed gifts and more! Join us for the largest plant sale in the Quiet Corner in the AG Building at the Woodstock Fairgrounds. Open til noon or sell-out. All proceeds support Scholarships and Civic projects. No pets, please.
Largest plant sale in northeast CT. All proceeds fund scholarships and Civic projects. Annuals, perennials, herbs, veggies, fresh floral gifts, hanging baskets and natives. Find us on Facebook for more information. No pets.