CHENEY HOMESTEAD HOLIDAY OPEN
HOUSE 2023
December tbd, 2023
The club creates arrangements and other decorations to
dress the Cheney Homestead for its annual Holiday Open
House. The museum stores at the
History Center and Old Manchester Museum will be open, with
books on local history, copies of vintage maps, t-shirts
with historic scenes of Manchester, mugs, notecards, and
limited-edition ceramic tree ornaments. The open houses are
free.
CONNECTICUT FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW
Bursting into Spring
February 22-25, 2024
Visit the
Annual
Connecticut Flower & Garden Show. Attend over 80
hours of seminars and demonstrations. Club members are
encouraged to enter the individual horticultural
competitions, as well as to participate in the creation of a
club entry.
ANNUAL FINE ART AND FLOWERS WADSWORTH ATHENEUM
tbd
Each year, club members design and donate an arrangement
interpreting one of the pieces of art in the museum. An
annual
three day
event with floral arrangements and
garden designs inspired by works of art in the collection
created by community florists, garden clubs, and designers.
MANCHESTER GARDEN CLUB SPRING PLANT SALE
May tbd, 2024 (8:30 am sharp, rain or
shine )
Community Baptist Church Parking Lot
585 East Center Street, Manchester (by the Green)
Each spring, club members dig and pot more than 1,000
plants and shrubs to sell at this annual sale. Vegetable and
flower seedlings will also be available this year. The Plant Sale is staffed by club members, so buyers
have access to the gardener who donated the plants and can
hear first hand the success tips that have worked for them.
The Plant Sale starts promptly at 8:30 am, rain or shine. Nearly a thousand plants are gone by
around 10:30 am!
Contact MGC at
info@manchestergardenclubs.org