Our fun and informative programs are are free of charge and open to all, unless otherwise noted. Please see the calendar below for a full schedule.

 

Please click the title of each event to register!

 

Click here to view past recorded programs on our YouTube channel.

  • Informal Private Garden Visit

    MEMBERS ONLY It's time to mark your calendar for the 2023 NCBL Informal Garden Visits. This year we will be having garden visits on: Thursday, May 18, Thursday, June 15, Wednesday, July […]

  • RAINDATE: Welcome Back Coffee

    Mead Park Colonade 241 Park Street, New Canaan, CT

    RAINDATE: Join us for our annual Welcome Back Coffee!  Members and Friends welcome. Due to the forecast we have moved this to Thursday, September 14 - same time and place!

  • Annual Holiday Wreaths and Greens Workshop

    New Canaan Nature Center

    Calling all Members to help create beautiful wreaths to adorn our public buildings.  We will assemble in the New Canaan Nature Center Greenhouse. Please bring clippers. This is a shared event with New Canaan Garden Club. (Set up on Nov. 28)

  • Exploring Connecticut’s Historic Gardens

    Zoom

    Laurie Masciandaro, Site Manager of Roseland Cottage and Garden, introduces us to the history and beauty of the CT gardens that have inspired visitors for a century or more.  This program will be presented through Zoom. Please click here to view the replay of this program on our YouTube channel.

  • New Perennials: A Love Story, a personal introduction to design principles of the New Perennial Movement

    Zoom

    Deborah Chud is a retired Massachusetts physician turned garden-maker, consultant and educator. Her 6 years of research on New Perennial gardens, including  New York’s High Line, Chicago’s Lurie Garden, the Oudolf Meadow at Delaware Botanic Gardens, and Oudolf Garden Detroit, generated the most comprehensive existing database of New Perennial plant combinations and led to the creation of her own […]