Community News

The Wallingford Garden Club presents its Annual Holiday Tea & Design Pop-Up Shop and Wreath Exhibit on Thursday, Dec. 15 from 1-3 pm:  The event is at Wallingford Public Library, 200 North Main St., Wallingford. Tea, coffee, and punch with finger sandwiches and holiday pastries prepared by club members is served to the general public. Holiday wreaths and swags prepared by […]

Register now for Winter Gardening Workshops at Bartlett Arboretum in Stamford. Go to https://www.bartlettarboretum.org/events to learn more.

ASLA’s Free PDH of the Month webinar is An Instrumental Guide to Blending Music & Community. Music parks benefit every member of the community, but few communities have a music program available and affordable to everyone. A permanent installation of instruments changes that. A simplified system allows anyone to play, regardless of training or ability, and

The West Hartford Garden Club presents “Holiday Tablescapes with Rachael Flamme on Nov. 10 at noon at Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue, W. Hartford. Rachael, a florist at Riverside Garden Center and Nursery in Collinsville, will demonstrate how to create a Thanksgiving tablescape and how to transition it to Christmas and/or Hanukkah. Free

Native Plant Trust, the nation’s first plant conservation organization and the only one solely focused on New England’s native plants, is pleased to announce that it will screen the documentary Mardi & the Whites on Saturday, October 15, at 3:30pm at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, MA.  A film made and directed by Paula Champagne, featuring

The Simsbury Garden Club will hold an Herb Garden Luncheon on Monday, October 17 at 11:30 am at the Apple Barn, 60 Old Farms Road in West Simsbury. Members and Guests will enjoy a luncheon prepared by the Simsbury Garden Club Members that is inspired by an assortment of herbs. Luncheon will be followed by

The West Hartford Garden Club Meeting presents “Current Trends in Floral Design” with Sandra Lamo on Thursday, October 6 at noon. The presentation is at Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue in West Hartford. Sandra Lamo is the owner of A Special Place Floral Design Studio in West Hartford. She will present the latest

Summer is already coming to the end—school supplies and Halloween merchandise are already stocked on retail shelves—but that doesn’t mean planting season is over! We’re compiling a list of plant sales you can go to stock up on bulbs, mums and more. If your club is planning a fall plant sale or you know of