CHENEY HOMESTEAD HOLIDAY OPEN
HOUSE 2025
December, 2025
The club creates arrangements and other decorations to
dress the Cheney Homestead for its annual Holiday Open
House. The museum stores at the
History Center and Old Manchester Museum will be open, with
books on local history, copies of vintage maps, t-shirts
with historic scenes of Manchester, mugs, notecards, and
limited-edition ceramic tree ornaments. The open houses are
free.
CONNECTICUT FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW
A Storybook Garden
February 19-22, 2026
44th Annual Connecticut Flower & Garden Show
CT Convention Center, 100 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford, CT
06103
Visit the
Annual
Connecticut Flower & Garden Show. Attend over 80
hours of seminars and demonstrations. Club members are
encouraged to enter the individual horticultural
competitions, as well as to participate in the creation of a
club entry.
43RD ANNUAL FINE ARTS & FLOWERS
Wadsworth Athenuem
Dates not Available
Each year, club members design and donate an arrangement
interpreting one of the pieces of art in the museum. An
annual
three day
event with floral arrangements and
garden designs inspired by works of art in the collection
created by community florists, garden clubs, and designers.
CENTENNIAL TEA PARTY
April 18, 2026
Member's Tea Party celebrating the Club's 100th anniversary.
will be held at the History Center.
Registration required for this special event.
MANCHESTER GARDEN CLUB PERENNIAL PLANT SALE
May 16, 2026 (8:30 am sharp, rain or
shine )
Pentecost Worship Center Parking Lot
585 East Center Street, Manchester (by the Green)
Each spring, club members dig and pot more than 1,000 plants
and shrubs to sell at this annual sale. Most plants are will
be $7.00. The Plant Sale is staffed by club members, so buyers
have access to the gardener who donated the plants and can
hear first hand the success tips that have worked for them.
The Plant Sale starts promptly at 8:30 am, rain or shine.
Nearly a thousand plants are gone by around 10:30 am! Bring
cash, plastic to line your trunk and enthusiasm to try
something new in your garden!
Contact MGC at
info@manchestergardenclubs.org