Lectures & Events
The White Flower Farm Store & Display Gardens will open on March 27, 2023.
Each year, White Flower Farm hosts a series of guided garden tours, talks, activities, and other special events featuring staff members and notable guests. You'll have fun learning, talking with White Flower Farm staff, strolling our display gardens, shopping from a special selection of plants and garden tools, accents and accessories, and visiting scenic northwestern Connecticut. All talks are held rain or shine at our retail store on Route 63 in Morris, CT. Registration requests and fees are noted below.
Retail manager Tom Bodnar provides a demonstration that demystifies the process of planting bareroot and container plants as well as bagged and burlapped ornamentals. This casual and fun exercise will provide helpful information while boosting your confidence with all types of planting. Registration required. Fee: $10. Attendees receive 10% OFF all in-stock trees. A refund of the $10 registration fee will be offered with the purchase of any item(s) that total $100 or more.
Celebrating the 8th anniversary of our most popular event, we invite you to bring your mom or a favorite relative or friend to the farm to have fun creating your own patio pot full of colorful annuals. A store associate will walk the greenhouses with you to create a custom design. Our staff members then pot up your selected plants while you wait. You’ll go home with a creation that will bring beauty and color to your porch or patio for a full season. Fee: $65 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil and labor. Registration required. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 24 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Celebrating the 8th anniversary of our most popular event, we invite you to bring your mom or a favorite relative or friend to the farm to have fun creating your own patio pot full of colorful annuals. A store associate will walk the greenhouses with you to create a custom design. Our staff members then pot up your selected plants while you wait. You’ll go home with a creation that will bring beauty and color to your porch or patio for a full season. Fee: $65 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil and labor. Registration required. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 24 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Celebrating the 8th anniversary of our most popular event, we invite you to bring your mom or a favorite relative or friend to the farm to have fun creating your own patio pot full of colorful annuals. A store associate will walk the greenhouses with you to create a custom design. Our staff members then pot up your selected plants while you wait. You’ll go home with a creation that will bring beauty and color to your porch or patio for a full season. Fee: $65 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil and labor. Registration required. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 24 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Celebrating the 8th anniversary of our most popular event, we invite you to bring your mom or a favorite relative or friend to the farm to have fun creating your own patio pot full of colorful annuals. A store associate will walk the greenhouses with you to create a custom design. Our staff members then pot up your selected plants while you wait. You’ll go home with a creation that will bring beauty and color to your porch or patio for a full season. Fee: $65 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil and labor. Registration required. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 24 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Start your weekend off with a visit to the farm for complimentary refreshments and family fun. Kids will enjoy face painting and a scavenger hunt with prizes (just ask a staff member for a list of clues). Drawings will be held throughout the day for plants and giftware. Guided tours of the display gardens are offered at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Veterans and active service members receive 10% off all purchases.
Start by enjoying a delicious lunch prepared by a local deli and accompanied by a casual talk with Store Manager Tom Bodnar. Next, put on your walking shoes for a guided tour of our Rose Garden, Lloyd Border, and smaller display gardens. Questions welcome.
Registration required. Fee: $25, includes bagged lunch (Turkey Wrap with cheese, avocado, lettuce, and homemade cranberry pesto) and 1 annual plant of your choosing. Drink, chips and cookies included. Attendees receive 20% OFF all in-stock Roses.
Start by enjoying a delicious lunch prepared by a local deli and accompanied by a casual talk with Store Manager Tom Bodnar. Next, put on your walking shoes for a guided tour of our Rose Garden, Lloyd Border, and smaller display gardens. Questions welcome.
Registration required. Fee: $25, includes bagged lunch (Vegetarian Wrap with mozzarella, sliced tomato, avocado, red onion, and homemade walnut pesto) and 1 annual plant of your choosing. Drink, chips and cookies included. Attendees receive 20% OFF all in-stock Roses.
Author and horticulturalist Lorraine Ballato offers an informative talk and demonstration on how to prune and care for a wide variety of Hydrangeas. Learn the differences between Mophead and Mountain types and discover the ease of caring for Peegee Hydrangeas (Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’). It might all be Latin to you now but you'll leave with the confidence to plant, successfully tend, and enjoy Hydrangeas for years to come. $5.00 OFF any Hydrangea. Registration required. Fee: $15.
Enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by a local deli as White Flower Farm store manager and plantsman Tom Bodnar gives a casual talk about the splendors of the late summer garden and strategies for planting spring-blooming bulbs. Next, step outside for a guided tour of our 20’ by 240’ Lloyd Border in all its seasonal glory.
Registration required. Fee: $25 per person. Menu option: Turkey Wrap (with cheese, avocado, lettuce, and homemade cranberry pesto). Beverage, chips, and cookies included. Attendees receive 10% OFF all in-stock bulbs for fall planting.
Enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by a local deli as White Flower Farm store manager and plantsman Tom Bodnar gives a casual talk about the splendors of the late summer garden and strategies for planting spring-blooming bulbs. Next, step outside for a guided tour of our 20’ by 240’ Lloyd Border in all its seasonal glory.
Registration required. Fee: $25 per person. Menu option: Vegetarian Wrap (with mozzarella, sliced tomato, avocado, red onion, and homemade walnut pesto). Beverage, chips, and cookies included. Attendees receive 10% OFF all in-stock bulbs for fall planting.
