Wilton Garden Club’s Mother’s Day plant sale is this weekend

Wilton Garden Club’s Mother’s Day plant sale is this weekend

This cherished Wilton tradition is celebrating its 85^th year

Wilton Garden Club’s Mother’s Day Plant Sale in wilton, connecticut in may 2024 — Photo via Wilton Garden Club

Wilton Garden Club (WGC) will hold its 85th Mother’s Day Plant Sale this Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, at the Wilton Town Center gazebo. Whether you’re a master gardener, a novice green thumb, or simply looking for the perfect floral Mother’s Day gift, be sure to stop by and support this very worthwhile event. Its proceeds fund WGC’s year-round efforts to beautify Wilton and promote environmental conservation, preservation and education initiatives.

“There are so many special things about the Garden Club’s plant sale,” Ann Margaret Mannix, WGC president, said. “Its rich history of 85 years, its celebration of Mother’s Day and the start of the gardening season, the fun our members have in working and gardening together to make it a success, and the joy we see in our customers as they get excited to plant their purchases and surprise their moms with beautiful flowers.”

From herbs to perennials to patio containers, the sale will feature an extensive variety of more than 4,000 plants that are sure to do well in customers’ gardens because most are locally grown by WGC members – either in their own home gardens, at the club’s community garden at Allen’s Meadows, or in the greenhouse at Wilton’s Comstock Community Center. Offerings will include:

Organic vegetable and herb plants
Stunning perennials
Colorful annuals
Large variety of rare dahlias
Pollinator-friendly plants, shrubs and trees
Show-stopping patio containers
Flowering hanging baskets
Eye-catching wildflowers
Decorative baskets and china teacups filled with gorgeous flowers. (Ideal for a Mother’s Day gift!)

The plant sale will be held – rain or shine – at the Wilton Town Center Gazebo on Friday, May 10, from 12 pm to 6 p.m., and Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Additionally, for extra eager gardeners, a presale will be held at the Comstock Community Center greenhouse on Wednesday, May 10, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

WGC members work throughout the year to prep for this amazing effort. Thousands of plants are locally dug by members from each other’s gardens during the months leading up to the sale. The members then spend several weeks potting and caring for the plants at their homes. As these plants are acclimated to Wilton weather, they usually thrive with proper care in customers’ nearby gardens. WGC plants typically also have a larger, more established root ball than plants sold elsewhere that are grown from a single plug and thus take longer to establish in the soil.

A proud history

Every year – rain or shine – since 1939 in May, on the Friday and Saturday before Mother’s Day, WGC has held its annual plant sale. In 1939 the sale’s venue was Wilton’s Old Town Hall with plants hand dug from members’ gardens much as it happens now. Over the years, the sale grew and moved to Center School in 1978. And in 1986, the opening of the fully automated greenhouse at Wilton’s Comstock Community Center enabled WGC to accept cuttings and plants from its members in early autumn which, still today, along with hundreds of seeds, are propagated and nurtured by members throughout the winter. To date, thousands of such plants as well as those dug from members’ gardens are sold at the plant sale every year.

A community effort

The Wilton community is also actively engaged in the WGC plant sale. Foremost are the shoppers who come to the sale and purchase the plants every year, a tradition many of them say has been passed down from their parents. Wilton Library has also offered a place for WGC members working the sale to complete related paperwork, and the American Legion has provided much needed coffee for them.

Additionally, in the 1990s, Wilton Boy Scout troops started keeping overnight watch on the plants after some went missing, naming themselves the Flower Guard. The Wilton Girl Scouts recently joined the Flower Guard as well, alternating sleepover nights with the Boy Scouts. The scouts also help WGC dismantle the sale after it ends on Saturday, which the club greatly appreciates.

Plants for philanthropy

Proceeds from the plant sale are used for WGC’s many philanthropic efforts which include:

Maintaining most of the gardens in town (post office; Veteran’s Memorial; town sign at Rt. 7/33; Schenck’s Island Chess Park; and Horseshoe Road Garden)

Garden Therapy workshops with seniors at Comstock Community Center

Holiday decorations throughout Wilton

Holiday garden baskets to seniors through Wilton Social Services

Charitable donations to nonprofits such as Norwalk River Valley Trail, Norwalk River Watershed, Wilton Historical Society, Wilton Library, Green Teens at Trackside, and Woodcock Nature Center, to name just a few.

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Wilton Garden Club’s Mother’s Day plant sale is this weekend

Wilton Garden Club’s Mother’s Day plant sale is this weekend