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Five Reasons to Love Our Plant Sale

Reason #1 — Your deck was almost cleaned up and the furniture was arranged, but it looked a little dull.

 

Reason #2 — So, last Saturday morning you visited The Nature Center at Greenburgh. Awaiting you were the healthiest, most beautiful plants and the friendliest people to provide expert gardening advice.

 

Reason #3 — It wasn’t easy to choose, but boxed up in on the Nature Center lawn, your choices looked terrific and the prices were so good you just had to grab a few more.

 

Reason #4 — When you got home, the real fun began: choosing the right pot and spot for each plant.

 

Reason #5 —  There! All the deck really needed was a few pops of color.

 

Reason #5, continued — In just a few hours, the deck was ready for its close-up, and for the plants to grow and bloom. And for you and your guests to enjoy relaxing and meals outdoors. And for you to get back to work planting the perennials — especially those beautiful natives — out in the garden.

You weren’t at the Nature Center at Greenburgh on Saturday morning? There’s always next year. Mark your calendar now: Saturday, May 17, 2026.

Filed under Annuals and Perennials, Family Events, Greenburgh Nature Center, Horticulture, Indoor Plants, Irvington Garden Club Events, Landscape and Garden Design, Rivertowns Westchester NY

Our 2022 pre-Mother’s Day Plant Sale & Garden Fair Sells Out!

GCI members Dori Ruff, Cathy Ludden, Cena Hampden, and Nora Galland with annual plants they are readying for the sale.

Raindrops and chilly weather did not keep our members from setting up and managing our Plant Sale and Garden Fair at Greenburgh Nature Center on Saturday, May 7. Shoppers came to enjoy and buy. We were totally sold out by 2:00!

The annual flowers in the greenhouse were exceptionally beautiful. Just outside, there were  Sun Perennials, Shade Perennials. Sun and Shade Perennials, and Native Plants. All in fabulous condition and exceptionally well priced.

Garden Club members helped everyone choose the right plants for their personal garden needs and offered expert advice. “Our goal is to help you make your garden a  more beautiful and environmentally friendly place,” said event co-chair Cena Hampden. “And we loved helping children pot up a flowering annual to decorate and take home for Mom.”

We also offered a Garden Journal filled with garden tips for each month, plenty of space to write, with original photography and botanical art by Garden Club members.

Our annual plant sales are the perfect place to get gifts for Mom as well as plants for your borders and containers. We always have many varieties of coleus and pelargoniums (geraniums), plus annuals you may not find everywhere — like hyacinth bean vine, plectranthos, streptocarpella, and cleome — all in beautiful condition, at great prices.

 

Event co-chair Dori Ruff is one of the many members who worked in the greenhouse to grow these healthy annuals.

 

Nora and Cena demonstrate the TLC that each plant is given.

 

Healthy perennials under the Greenburgh Nature Center tent.

 

Get inspired and keep track of your garden triumphs and tribulations in the new 74-page Garden Club of Irvington Garden Journal. It’s packed with garden tips and photographs and botanical drawings by Club members. There are four lined pages per month to write notes, scribble drawings, or paste photos. At $20 per copy it’s a perfect gift, plus get one for yourself.

 

In addition to the annuals, each Garden Club member donates at least five perennials from her own garden. Here, new Club co-President Renee Shamosh digs Sedum ‘Autumn Joy.’

 

Each perennial offered is potted and ready to transplant into your garden. Watch the 3-minute VIDEO on our Horticulture Tips tab!

 

AND… there is always bountiful selection of pollinator perennials — like this echinacea — produced by the same professional grower who supplied the plants at the Greenburgh Nature Center pollinator garden.

The Garden Club of Irvington is delighted with our new collaboration with the Greenburgh Nature Center, located at 99 Dromore Road, Scarsdale, just off Central Avenue (north of Ashford Avenue).

Watch for announcements for the 2023 sale on local town and village websites and on NextDoor.

 

 

Filed under GCA Events, Horticulture, Plant Sale