Garden Calendar
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Here’s our weekly garden calendar, with listings for the full Lower Hudson Valley. Surely there’s a plant sale near you …
May 3
Mahopac: Container Gardening. Design and plant your own container garden. Participants should bring their own container; plants will be provided. Registration. $5. 2-4 p.m. Mahopac Public Library, 668 Route 6. 845-628-2009.
Katonah: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
Valhalla: Wildflower and Native Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Native Plant Center, Westchester Community College, 75 Grasslands Road. 914-606-7870.
Yorktown Heights: Spring into Gardening from the Ground Up. Interactive demonstrations on soil health, lawn care, low maintenance plants, and growing herbs in containers. Sponsor: Cornell Cooperative Extension master gardeners. Free. 9 a.m.-noon Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Center, 1275 Hanover St. 914-285-4620.
May 4
Chappaqua: Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program. $5. Noon-4 p.m. Rocky Hills, 95 Old Roaring Brook Road. 888-842-2442.
Katonah: Plant Sale. Noon-5 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
May 5
Katonah: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
May 6
Katonah: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
Verplanck: Garden Club of Peekskill. Topic: Container gardening. Free. 12:30 p.m. Verplanck Little Red School House, Sixth Street. 914-737-0318.
May 7
Ardsley: Ardsley Garden Club’s 45th Standard Flower Show: Garden Secrets. Free. 2-8 p.m. St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Heatherdell and Revolutionary roads. 914-693-3366.
Katonah: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
Scarsdale: Garden Section of the Woman’s Club. Speaker: Peter Kukielski. Topic: A celebration of roses. Reservations. 2 p.m. Scarsdale Woman’s Club, 37 Drake Road. 914-472-4435.
May 8
Katonah: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
Brewster: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 81 Main St. 845-278-2881.
Katonah: Plant Patch Sale. Flowers, vegetables, herbs. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 68 Bedford Road. 914-232-5220.
May 9
Brewster: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 81 Main St. 845-278-2881.
Katonah: Plant Patch Sale. Flowers, vegetables, herbs. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 68 Bedford Road. 914-232-5220.
Katonah: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
Mount Kisco: Flower Patch Sale. noon-7 p.m. United Methodist Church of Mount Kisco, 300 E. Main St. 914-666-5014.
Ossining: Plant Sale. $5. 4-7 p.m. Teatown Lake Reservation, 1600 Spring Valley Road. 914-762-2912.
May 10
Armonk: Green Acres Garden Club Plant Sale. Free. 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Byram Hills High School, 12 Tripp Lane. 914-276-7890.
Brewster: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 81 Main St. 845-278-2881.
Chappaqua: Chappaqua Garden Club Plant Sale. Perennials, annuals, herbs, hanging baskets and gift items. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Chappaqua Railroad Station, Bridge Road.
Katonah: Plant Patch Sale. Flowers, vegetables, herbs. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 68 Bedford Road. 914-232-5220.
Katonah: Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, 149 Girdle Ridge Road. 914-232-1252.
Ossining: Nature-Friendly Plant Sale and Workshops. Free. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Teatown Lake Reservation, 1600 Spring Valley Road. 914-762-2912.
Peekskill: Garden Club of Peekskill Plant Sale. Hanging baskets, herbs, shrubs and more. Sponsor: Garden Club of Peekskill. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Riverfront Green Park, Route 9 and Hudson Avenue. 914-572-5246.
Pleasantville: Pleasantville Garden Club’s Annual Plant Sale. 8-11:30 a.m. Pleasantville Memorial Plaza, Marble Avenue. 914-239-8755.
Tarrytown: Garden Fair/Plant Sale. Free. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Lyndhurst, 635 S. Broadway. 914-631-4481.
Yorktown Heights: Composting for Your Organic Garden. Instructor: Margaret von der Meden, backyard farmer and farm-based educator. Dress appropriately for garden work. Registration. $10. 3-4 p.m. Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Center, 1275 Hanover St. 914-980-6375.
May 17
Somers: Friends of Lasdon Annual Plant Sale. 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Lasdon Park and Arboretum, Route 35. 914-864-7268.
Southeast: Master Gardener Plant Sale. Master gardeners will answer questions and conduct soil PH tests. Free. 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tilly Foster Farm and Conservation, 100 Route 312. 845-278-6738.
Upper Nyack: Garden Club of Nyack Annual Plant Sale. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Katzenstein Residence, 507 N. Broadway. 845-358-0534.
May 31
West Haverstraw: Adapted Gardening. Free. 1 p.m. Helen Hayes Hospital, Route 9W. 845-786-4873.



Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.






