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  • Thursday, April 18, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern – Life in the Garden with Bunny Williams, Online

    Design legend Bunny Williams has made her name creating interiors with livable elegance, and nowhere is this more apparent than her own beloved country house in Connecticut where she lives throughout the year. Over the past 35 years, Bunny has brought her impeccable eye to a series of gardens that extend across the verdant and ever-evolving 22-acre property. Now, in her new book Bunny Williams: Life in the Garden, Bunny shares her passion and infectious enthusiasm for planting, entertaining, and living among nature year-round.

    Join her and the Garden Conservancy on Thursday, April 18 at 2 pm for a personal look at life in the garden as she shares awe-inspiring photos from all four seasons and the lessons she’s learned along the way. $5 for Garden Conservancy members, $15 for general public. A recording of this webinar will be sent to all registrants a few days after the event. We encourage you to register, even if you cannot attend the live webinar. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/education/education-events/virtual-talk-life-in-the-garden

  • Saturday, May 20 & Sunday, May 21 – Trade Secrets

    Project SAGE presents Trade Secrets, a beautiful gathering for a great cause. Garden tours and community events will take place Saturday, May 20, and on Sunday, May 21, there will be the famous Trade Secrets Rare Plants and Garden Antiques Sale at Lime Rock Park, 60 White Hollow Road in Lakeville, Connecticut.

    • Project SAGE (formerly Women’s Support Services), a non profit domestic violence agency serving Northwest Connecticut and the surrounding communities in New York and Massachusetts, delivered 194 educational programs to schools throughout the region and has 255 sessions scheduled for this school year
    • Project SAGE responded to more hotline calls and crisis requests than ever before – nearly 1,500 calls were answered last year.
    • Project SAGE has significantly expanded options to shelter families in crisis and assist with interim and long-term housing – including the shelter of beloved family pets.

    Garden tours include Michael Trapp’s West Cornwall Garden and Hollister House Garden. Bunny Williams and John Rosselli’s tour is currently sold out but to be added to a waitlist, please email tsassistant@project-sage.org In Millbrook, the gardens of Christopher Spitzmiller & Anthony Bellomo are featured, as well as Innisfree Garden. Complete details of these gardens, and a purchase link, may be found at https://www.tradesecretsct.com/garden-tours-community-events-1 Tickets to each garden range from $10 to $20.

  • Saturday, April 30 & Saturday, July 23, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – The Garden of Bunny Williams

    The Garden Conservancy announces a special in-person event in April and July at the Falls Village, Connecticut home of Bunny Williams.

    Interior designer and garden book author Bunny Williams’s intensively planted fifteen-acre estate has a sunken garden with twin perennial borders surrounding a fishpond, a seasonally changing parterre garden, a year-round conservatory filled with tender plants, a large vegetable garden with flowers and herbs, a woodland garden with meandering paths, and a pond with a waterfall. There are also a working greenhouse and an aviary with unusual chickens, an apple orchard with mature trees, a rustic Greek Revival-style poolhouse folly, and a swimming pool with eighteenth-century French coping. Garden is partially accessible.

    Open Days 2022: Saturday, April 30 and Saturday, July 23
    Hours: Two sessions, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. (But April 30 early session already sold out) https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/garden-directory/bunny-williams

    REGISTRATION
    Members $5 per person; General admission $10. Children 12 and under free.

    Photo: John Hall

  • Thursday, July 14, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – The Evolution of a Landscape: The Garden of Lee Link

    Join Berkshire Botanical Garden on Thursday, July 14 from 10 – 12 and tour the fabulous Sharon, Connecticut, garden of Lee Link. Learn how this creative hillside garden has changed over the years to meet the needs and interest of this talented plantswoman. From its cedar greenhouse to the terraced gardens replete with rills and borders that playfully combine edible and ornamentals plants, this living landscape is filled with ideas that are sure to inspire us to move our own gardens forward. Horticulturist Bridget Lynch, who also works with Bunny Williams at her garden in nearby Falls Village, will lead this insider’s tour of one the Northwest corners’ most beloved gardens. BBG members $40, nonmembers $45. Register online at https://berkshirebotanical.org/education/field-trips/

  • Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26 – The Newport Flower Show: Gilded – Artful Living

    Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26 – The Newport Flower Show: Gilded – Artful Living

    During the Gilded Age, nearly every aspect of life was elevated to an art form. Gardens became stages for nature’s most brilliant performances, women’s fashions were created for stylish parades, and houses became museums for a lifetime of treasures.

    Join The Preservation Society of Newport County at Rosecliff, 548 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, as we celebrate all that is Gilded.  Each day of the Newport Flower Show offers guests opportunities to enjoy judged horticultural specimens and floral designs, special garden exhibitions, free lectures and demonstrations, children’s activities, and wonderful shopping experiences at the Oceanside Boutiques and Gardeners’ Marketplace. Featured special guests are Bruno Duarte and Bunny Williams.

    Tickets are also available for special luncheons, lectures and workshops, as well as full weekend packages. Visit www.newportmansions.org for complete details.

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

    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.

  • Thursday, August 7, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – The Beautiful Garden of Bunny Williams

    Join head gardener Eric Ruquist on Thursday, August 7, for a tour of the beautiful country garden of renowned interior designer and author Bunny Williams. Located in the northwest corner of Connecticut, the tour is timed to take advantage of the height of this magnificent garden’s flora display. In addition to an insider look at maintaining one of Connecticut’s most beautiful gardens, Mr. Ruquist will focus on the cutting garden and demonstrate how he brings the garden indoors with beautiful floral arrangements. Participants are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the property following the program.

    Eric Ruquist is an artist, gardener and for 13 years the head gardener for Bunny Williams. He was curator of flower garden collection at Stonecrop Gardens, located in Cold Springs, NY, and greenhouse manager for a private estate in Westchester County. Eric thinks of himself as a plantsman and also gardens his own riverside property in Falls Village.

    Bring a bag lunch and dress for the weather. Participants can choose to carpool or drive separately. Those joining the carpool should meet in the parking lot at Berkshire Botanical Garden for a 9:15 am departure. Carpool will return at approximately 1:30 pm. (Program time in Falls Village, CT, is 10am – noon.) BBG members $50, nonmembers $60. To register, visit http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/ai1ec_event/the-beautiful-garden-of-bunny-williams/?instance_id=2618.

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  • Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20 – Trade Secrets Garden Tour

    The Northeast’s most talked about annual garden event, Trade Secrets, a benefit for Women’s Support Services, a domestic violence program, is celebrating its 12th annual garden weekend in May. Trade Secrets begins on Saturday, May 19th at LionRock Farm in Sharon, CT with the antique and rare plant sale from 10am to 3pm, and, of course, for the early birds there are the early-buying tickets available that include admittance at 8am with an early-buyers breakfast available. On Sunday, May 20th you can tour four gardens including the tours signature garden of Trade Secrets’ founder Bunny Williams.

    From young to old, famous to not-so-famous, Trade Secrets is certainly the place where you find those rare garden plants and antiques for your home. For the past 12 years, Trade Secrets has brought garden-lovers from around the world to the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut to discover new plants, topiary, and antiques for their gardens. 2012 will be no exception with nearly 60 vendors and garden antiques dealers from around the northeast region readying their wares for the trip to the picturesque LionRock Farm (pictured below)  for this annual event.

    With their truckloads of rare garden plants and unusual accessories – those kind of unique treasures that you might search a lifetime for – vendors will descend upon LionRock to offer garden lovers a day of pure treasure hunting! Shoppers can find rare plant specimens from specialized growers and from some of the nation’s best known small nurseries, as well as furniture, antiques, cloches and garden statuary from the choicest purveyors of garden antiques, wrought-iron fencing, textiles from select antiques dealers, and so much more.

    A special treat this year will be a presentation by renowned owner, Marina Marchese of Red Bee Honey. Featured in Martha Stewart Living, this boutique honey bee farm is changing the way consumers taste and use honey! Committed to a sustainable lifestyle, Red Bee Honey boasts a spectacular edible garden, chickens and honeybees!

    Sunday’s garden tour will feature an opportunity to eavesdrop on Bunny Williams’ and John Rosselli’s affair with their house, as their garden is back for the 12th year by popular demand. Also back for a second time on the tour is Jack Hyland’s and Larry Wente’s eco-friendly, forty-one acre futuristic estate that is both outward-looking and inwardly conscientious. Two new gardens added this year are the Linden Hill Farm owned by Richard deBart and Debra Blair, owner of Debra Blair Associates in New York City, and Hawk Hill Farm owned by Robert & Jane Keiter.

    Tickets for the rare plant and garden antique sale on Saturday are $35 for regular admission from 10am to 3pm and $100 for “early buying” tickets. Ticekts for Sunday’s garden tours are $70 ($60 in advance). Tickets may be purchased on line at www.tradesecretsct.com.