Events

Plant Quest 2025: Amazing Plants for Midwest Gardeners

If you love gardening, you will be thrilled with PLANT QUEST 2025! Join nationally known experts to explore for your residential landscape a variety of conifer choices, native plants, iron-clad plant combinations and environmentally-friendly gardening practices over a 4-week series. Sessions:  (All January sessions on Mondays from 6 – 7:15 p.m. ET) Jan. 6, 2025 – Garden […]

06 - 27 Jan

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Zoom Webinar

Zoom Webinar

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Annual Meeting and Luncheon: From Covid and Chaos to Hope

Join the Garden Center for its Annual Luncheon and Meeting on Friday, January 17 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m in the Community Room of the Fred M. Alger Center at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Our featured speaker is Kelly Konieczki a self-declared “citizen scientist” presenting From Covid Chaos to Hope and her discovery with her […]

17 Jan

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grosse Pointe War Memorial

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MSUE 2025 Online Pruning Workshop for Smart Gardeners

MASTER THE SCIENCE AND ART OF PRUNING!!!!!! Pruning is an important cultural practice used to maintain health, safety, vigor and appearance of woody plants. It involves both art and science – art, in shaping plants in harmony with their growth habit to enhance the landscape, and science, in knowing how, when, where and why to […]

17 Jan - 14 Mar

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Zoom Webinar

Zoom Webinar

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4th Annual Legacy Seminar

Join us for our 4th Annual Legacy Seminar on Saturday, March 8, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our two featured speakers will be covering topics geared for home gardeners. Visit our vendors, Master Garden Table, and more. Admission includes a buffet brunch. The seminar will be in the Community Room of the Fred M. Alger Center at […]

08 Mar

8:30 am - 1:30 pm

Grosse Pointe War Memorial

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Great Dixter Gardens

Mil Hurley was very fortunate to have taken a class at the famed gardens at the Great Dixter estate and will tell us of her wonderful experiences and share some of the valuable gardening knowledge she came home with. The program will be in the Reception Room of the War Memorial on Wednesday, April 9, […]

09 Apr

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Grosse Pointe War Memorial

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Friends of Art & Flowers – Elizabeth Sites Kuhlman Lecture

Spanish Master Florist Daniel Santamaria is the featured speaker for the 2025 Elizabeth Kuhlman Lecture in the Marvin and Betty Danto Lecture Hall at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The program is Monday, April 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A Luncheon following program will be available. Details will be available at a future […]

28 Apr

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit Institute of Arts

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33rd Annual Garden Tour

Mark your calendars! The Garden Center’s ever-popular 33rd Annual Garden Tour is on Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21, 2025, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Visit six beautiful private Grosse Pointe gardens, enjoy artists painting in the gardens, garden docents for your gardening questions, MSU Extention Master Gardener Information Table, Tour Raffle, Garden Shoppe, […]

20 - 21 Jun

10:00 am - 4:00 am

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