Throughout the year, the New Canaan Beautification League offers a variety of educational programs, hands-on workshops, garden tours, and special events designed to inspire a love of gardening, conservation, and community beautification. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or simply enjoy beautiful places and connecting with your community, there’s something for everyone. Many programs are free and open to the public, while others are reserved for members or require advance registration. Please see the calendar below for details.    Please click the title of each event to register!

 

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

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    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 […]

  • Texas Tree Lady

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    Janette Monear, President and CEO of Texas Trees Foundation, will speak to us about her work with the urban forestry non-profit dedicated to connecting people with trees to improve the quality of life in cities. The motto of the Texas Trees Foundation is “The Greening of North Central Texas". This foundation sustains a tree planting […]

  • Annual Victorian Tea

    Waveny House 677 South Avenue, New Canaan, CT

    Always a special treat for NCBL Members and their Guests!

  • Growing Beautiful Food

    Author and photographer, Matthew Benson, of Stonegate Farm (an 1860s organic estate farm in Balmville, NY) grows, photographs, and writes about the importance and esthetics of growing vegetables, fruits, and flowers. Growing Beautiful Food will be available for purchase and signing. This is a joint program with New Canaan Garden Club.

  • Informal Private Garden Visit

    MEMBERS ONLY It’s time to mark your calendar for the 2024 NCBL Informal Garden Visits. This year we will be having garden visits on: Thursday, April 18, Thursday, May 9, Thursday, June 13, Wednesday, July 10, and Wednesday, August 7.  The gardens will be open from 9:30 to noon to 35 registered NCBL members. Watch […]

  • Informal Private Garden Visit

    MEMBERS ONLY It’s time to mark your calendar for the 2024 NCBL Informal Garden Visits. This year we will be having garden visits on: Thursday, April 18, Thursday, May 9, Thursday, June 13, Wednesday, July 10, and Wednesday, August 7.  The gardens will be open from 9:30 to noon to 35 registered NCBL members. Watch […]