Our Signature Annual Events

Legacy Seminar

The Garden Center’s 4th Annual Legacy Seminar “Growing for the Whole Table; Flowers and Food” was held Saturday, March 8, 2025. This popular annual lecture series features multiple speakers on multiple...

Annual Garden Tour

Our 33rd Annual Garden Tour is Friday & Saturday, June 20 & 21 2025.

Trial Gardens Awards Tea

September marks the exciting culmination of our Annual Trial Gardens Competition where the results of the three judges is announced. The first-place winner has the privilege of selecting next year's...

Annual Meeting

The Annual Meetings are held in January at the start of our new fiscal year. Following a luncheon, we hold a brief business meeting for our members where we recap...

Sue Abbott Lecture

Honoring a floral arranger, lover of flowers and gardens, Sue Abbott this lecture features a floral arranging demonstration and talk. Our 2025 Abbott Lecture spotlights Amber Velvet Kirkland, founder of The...

Lectures

Our April lecture will explore the Gardens at Great Dixter in East Sussex, England with Mil Hurley. The gardens are vibrant, daring, and immersive with a 15th century house restored by Sir...

Celebration 365

This popular fall fundraiser helps support the Garden Center’s many activities in the community including Master Gardener scholarships, Trial, Veterans and perennial gardens at the War Memorial, lectures with noted...

Workshops

Our 5th Annual Holiday Floral Arranging Workshop will be held Monday, November 24, 2025. Award-winning floral arranger Johnese Thibault will demonstrate and offer hands-on advice on how to create a...

Field Trips

Field trips to local Michigan garden sites are conducted, but not on a regular schedule.