Annual Plant Sale & Garden Fair

Annual Plant Sale & Garden Fair

This highly anticipated event is held the annually on Mother's Day weekend, rain or shine.  The success of this event is due to expansive offering of quality plants, including cheerful annuals, native perennials, perennials, vegetables, hydrangeas, and the always popular members plants - all available to our supportive community.  Our experienced gardeners are on hand to offer planting advice and gardening tips and tricks.  In 2026, the plant sale will take place on Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9.

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Proceeds from the annual Duck River Garden Club sale go to scholarships, civic beautification, and many fine local organizations including those listed below.

 

 

Club Contributions and Memberships

Members’ talents and money raised were shared with:

• Common Food Garden

• Enders Island Fund

• Food Share Garden

• Miracle League of Southeastern CT

• Mile Creek School Cultivated Garden

• Old Lyme Historical Society

• Old Lyme Land Trust

• The Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut

• Connecticut Nature Conservancy

• Lyme/Old Lyme Senior Center

• Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library

• Essex Meadows Scholarship Foundation

• CT College Arboretum

• Elizabeth Park Conservancy

• CT Farmland Trust

• Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center

• Old Lyme Ambulance Association

• Bride Brook Health and Rehabilitation Center, Niantic

 

Local Scholarships

The Duck River Garden Club currently offers two college scholarships to deserving high school seniors who reside in Old Lyme or Lyme, and East Lyme.  Since 1980 the garden club has awarded at least one college scholarship to students in our community.  Eligible fields of study have always included horticulture, biology, botany, forestry, natural resources management, landscape architecture, and related agricultural fields.  In recent years, as academic studies and career fields have evolved, other fields, including environmental engineering, ecology, and sustainability have been added.