We are extremely grateful to have received sponsorships for the 2023 Lexington Council Garden Clubs’ upcoming Garden Tour on June 24-25. The sponsors will be listed in the ticket brochure, but we also want to recognize them here, and encourage all our Tour guests to patronize their businesses. Thank you so much!!
It’s back!! After a three year hiatus, the Bluegrass Fair Horticulture and Flower Show is back, and will be held at the Lion’s Club Bluegrass Fair, June 10-11, 2023, at Masterson Station Park.
Do you grow the coolest cucumbers in town? Do your onions make people cry? Do your green beans make other beans green with envy?
Are your dahlias to die for? Do your roses have a heavenly scent? Have you got the handsomest houseplants in Lexington? Do your flower arrangements make people swoon?
If so, show off your green thumbs at the Horticulture and Flower Show!! Fruit, vegetable, foliage, and flower specimens, and flower arrangements designed using the theme of “Enchantment:Disney Princesses”, can be entered for judging on June 10, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. There are also children’s categories, to encourage budding plants-persons. Please see the information below, and click on the link to see the guidelines and rules for submission. There will be helpers available on site to help with the submission process.
Rules and Guidlines: 2023 Fair Schedule (05-09-23)
If you are looking for some plants to buff up your garden, here are three opportunities to shop at local community plant sales.
The Down to Earth Garden Club , a member of LCGC, will hold their annual fundraiser on Saturday, May 13, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., at a new location, Centenary United Methodist Church, 2800 Tates Creek Road, Lexington, KY. Please see their website, www.downtoearthky.com, for more information.
Gardenside Green Thumb Garden Club, also a member of LCGC, is holding a plant sale on Derby Day, May 6. See the flyer below:
The University of Kentucky Horticulture Club is holding a plant sale the last week of April and the first week of May. Please click on the link below to see their flier.
HAPPY SHOPPING!!
Reforest the Bluegrass: Help the city of Lexington plant trees at Hisle Farm Park, 3551 Briar Hill Road, on Saturday, April 15, from 9a.m.-1p.m. Participants receive a free lunch and a tee shirt. On Saturday, April 22, from 10 a.m.-1p.m., Reforest at Home is giving away free bareroot tree seedlings, up to 5 per Fayette County household, at Jacobson, Castlewood, and Waverly Parks. More detailed information is available on the LFUCG website, www.lexingtonky.gov, search Reforest the Bluegrass.
Opening Day at Waveland State Historic Site: Waveland State Historic Site has their official opening on April 1, 2023. Please see their Facebook page at facebook.com/WavelandSHS
Local Garden Club Tours: Besides the Lexington Council Garden Club Open Gates to the Bluegrass Tour on June 24-25, a tour of Botherum in Lexington, and garden tours in Danville and Frankfort will be held this spring. Please see the Garden Club of Kentucky’s website, gcky.org for more information.