Daily Archives: April 27, 2015

Saturday, May 16, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, and Sunday, May 17, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Trade Secrets

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Welcome to Trade Secrets – the two-day garden event that includes a rare plant and garden antique sale on Saturday, May 16, and a four-garden tour on Sunday, May 17. We are excited this year to be celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Trade Secrets, dubbed by many to be the northeast region’s garden event of the year!

Founded by Bunny Williams, Trade Secrets is the signature fundraiser for Women’s Support Services (WSS) of the Northwest Corner of Connecticut. The WSS mission is to create a community free of domestic violence and abuse through intervention, prevention and education by offering free, confidential, client-centered services focused on safety, support advocacy and community outreach.

This year many beloved vendors are returning (along with a few new additions we know you will love!) for Saturday’s rare plant and garden antique sale at LionRock Farm in Sharon, CT (pictured below.) We have four lovely Connecticut gardens on the Sunday garden tour – including the Trade Secrets’ signature garden of Bunny Williams and John Rosselli – always a treat.  Tickets are available online at http://www.tradesecretsct.com/tickets.

Through May 31 – Art of the Heirloom

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The Hudson Valley Seed Library is a small, farm-based seed company celebrating heirloom and open-pollinated garden seeds and garden-themed contemporary art.  Each year artists are commissioned to create designs for the seed packets.  The original art for the 2015 packets was first exhibited at the New York Botanical Garden and profiled in The New York Times, and now continues on to Tower Hill Botanic Garden.  Hudson Valley Seed Library packets are available for purchase at the Shop at Tower Hill.  Exhibit free with admission to the Garden.  For directions visit www.towerhillbg.org. Below: Blue Jade Sweet Corn, by Daniel Baxter,  credit Hudson Valley Seed Library Catalog/Courtesy of The New York Botanical Garden.