Lectures & Events
The White Flower Farm Store & Display Gardens are open for the season.
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, garden tools, and gifts, 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.
Street Address: 167 Litchfield Road, Morris, CT 06763
Location: On Route 63, 3.5 miles south of the center of Litchfield, CT
Phone: 860-567-8789
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White Flower Farm opens for the season today! We hope you will plan a visit soon. We will be open daily, 7 days a week, from 9am - 5:30pm until early July. No registration required.
Elizabeth Dudley, landscape architect and creator of ColorBlock Garden Design Cards, demonstrates how to use her New England Perennials Zones 3-8 deck of cards to design the garden of your dreams. The first hour is dedicated to explaining how the cards work and creating a sample garden as a group. The second hxour focuses on individual attendees using the cards to design their own gardens. Participants should bring information about their garden sites including measurements, sun exposure, soil conditions, and any other notable details (such as proximity to trees, water, roadways, etc). Photos are helpful. Registration is required. Choose either of the two-hour time slots above. Each session is limited to 25 attendees. Fee: $75 per person, which includes a set of ColorBlock cards, a $35 value.
Elizabeth Dudley, landscape architect and creator of ColorBlock Garden Design Cards, demonstrates how to use her New England Perennials Zones 3-8 deck of cards to design the garden of your dreams. The first hour is dedicated to explaining how the cards work and creating a sample garden as a group. The second hxour focuses on individual attendees using the cards to design their own gardens. Participants should bring information about their garden sites including measurements, sun exposure, soil conditions, and any other notable details (such as proximity to trees, water, roadways, etc). Photos are helpful. Registration is required. Choose either of the two-hour time slots above. Each session is limited to 25 attendees. Fee: $75 per person, which includes a set of ColorBlock cards, a $35 value.
Celebrating the 10th 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. Registration required. Fee: $69 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil, and labor. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 25 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Celebrating the 10th 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. Registration required. Fee: $69 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil, and labor. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 25 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Celebrating the 10th 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. Registration required. Fee: $69 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil, and labor. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 25 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Celebrating the 10th 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. Registration required. Fee: $69 per person, includes 1 pot, 5 annuals, soil, and labor. Choose any one of the 4 time slots shown above. (Please note: Sessions are limited to 25 people per hour with participants engaged with staff members a few at a time.) Don’t delay, this event always sells out!
Join us for lemonade and light refreshments as you stroll our beautiful display gardens and shop our expansive offerings of flowering plants and kitchen garden favorites. Kids will enjoy free face painting in the morning, a scavenger hunt with prizes (just ask a staff member for a list of clues), and playing corn hole with Mom and Dad. They can also make and decorate a butterfly house for a fee of $10 while supplies last. No registration required. Veterans and active service members receive 10% off all purchases.
Pamela Kenworthy, tea sommelière with the International Tea Masters Association, introduces you to the world of tea as she discusses the varieties, regions, tea ceremonies, mechanics of taste, and more. Oolong tea (decaf available) will be served along with light refreshments. The program concludes with a tea meditation/poem. Registration is required. $15 fee. Space is limited so don’t delay. After enjoying your tea, please join us for a guided tour of the White Flower Farm display gardens with special emphasis on our Rose & Perennial Garden, which offers a showcase of color, stimulating plant combinations, and fragrances that can evoke cherished memories.
Confused about all the choices and considerations when choosing and growing Hydrangeas? Former White Flower Farm Store Manager Tom Bodnar explains it all for you. In his talk and demonstration, Tom reviews the different types of Hydrangeas, pruning requirements for each, and offers tips for successfully growing these beloved, long-blooming, carefree shrubs. Registration is required. No fee. Attendees receive 10% off all Hydrangeas purchased that day.
