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Botanical Center Presents ‘Grandiflora Garden Tour’

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The Greenwich Botanical Center (GBC) will hold the 58th Annual Grandiflora Garden Tour, Friday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is GBC’s key fundraiser and the highlight of the nonprofit’s event calendar since its 1958.

This year’s tour ticket prices start at $75 and features private gardens by landscape designers John Conte, Sandy Lindh, Carrie Greenwald, and Honorary Chair Louis C. Fusco.

Easy bidding on silent auction items begins Sunday, May 26 through CharityAuction. Packages include a vacation stay on the North Shore of Kauai, personalized landscape lighting by Design Lighting By Marks, and a private shopping party with a gift certificate at Stuart Weitzman, as well as garden accessories from Janus & Cie, Copia Home & Garden, O&G Industries and Sam Bridge.

Friday morning kicks off with a special Patron Breakfast catered by Happiness Is and hosted at a GBC benefactor’s stellar home. A special addition this year is the Young Patron Ticket for $140 for those ages 40 and under that provides access to the Patron Breakfast.

An exclusive private lunch is being hosted at the new garden restaurant Tony’s at JHouse on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. $40 luncheon tickets are available online at GBC’s website, as are Patron tickets for the breakfast. (greenwichbotanicalcenter.org/grandiflora-garden-tour-2019/)

The GBC provides environmental enrichment activities onsite and offsite through volunteer programs, senior outreach, school and scout field trips, high school internships, after school programs, community garden guidance and Teaching Vegetable Garden activities.

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