The Garden Club of Old Greenwich will bring its annual Plant Sale back to the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center on Saturday, May 9, returning a longrunning spring fundraiser to its longtime home.
The sale will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will feature perennials, annuals, summer bulbs, herbs and organic edibles from Gilbertie’s Herb Gardens, along with Mother’s Day baskets and gifts. The event also includes a new children’s floral workshop, where young visitors can create a simple bouquet in time for Mother’s Day.
For Old Greenwich gardeners, the event is less a conventional retail sale than a neighborhood rite of spring. The club’s poster promises “real advice from real gardeners,” a phrase that captures one of the event’s principal attractions: buyers can speak directly with experienced local gardeners about what grows well in this coastal section of town, where salt air, shade, deer pressure and variable soil can shape what survives from one season to the next.
The sale also offers preordering through the club’s website, www.gardenOG.org
