We hope you can join us this summer for our Havenwood events and classes! Feel free to pass the invite along to your local friends.
Open garden days are available to all; classes by registration.
May
May 17th: Havenwood Open Garden + plant sales, 10 am—2 pm
To benefit for Grove City Community Library
Enjoy a restful walk around our one-acre private garden right in the borough. Self-guided tours through more than a dozen garden rooms with plentiful places to sit as well. Tadpoles in the pond, a garden fairy hunt, and coloring for the kids.
Plant sales to benefit library by Elaine Taylor, formerly of Taylor’s Farm Market
Come for the Bagpipes at 2pm!
$5 each, kids 10 & under free. Cash, check or Venmo at the door to benefit the GCCL
Location: 607 Bessemer Ave, Grove City, PA 16127
May 24th: Horticulture for Teens, 1—3pm
An introduction to the world of working with plants. Includes a seasonal garden tour, learning about botanical plant families, and hands-on lessons in plant propagation or other gardening tasks. Ages 12-19. $15
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June
June 12th: Big Old Garden Kids, 10 am—noon
Join educator Julie Witmer for a morning of gardens, flowers, fun, and stories at Havenwood, the place that inspired the Big Old Garden children’s series by James D Witmer. Ages 5-11, $10, *limited to ten*
June 13th: Horticulture for Teens, 1—3pm
An introduction to the world of working with plants. Includes a seasonal garden tour, learning about botanical plant families, and hands-on lessons in plant propagation or other gardening tasks. Ages 12-19. $15
June 14th: Havenwood Open Garden + plant sales, 10 am—2 pm
To benefit for Grove City Community Library
Enjoy a restful walk around our one-acre private garden right in the borough. Self-guided tours through more than a dozen garden rooms with plentiful places to sit as well. Bubbles, a garden fairy hunt, and coloring for the kids.
Plant sales to benefit library by Elaine Taylor, formerly of Taylor’s Farm Market
$5 each, kids 10 & under free. Cash, check or Venmo at the door to benefit the GCCL
Location: 607 Bessemer Ave, Grove City, PA 16127
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July
June 11th: Horticulture for Teens, 1—3pm
An introduction to the world of working with plants. Includes a seasonal garden tour, learning about botanical plant families, and hands-on lessons in plant propagation or other gardening tasks. Ages 12-19. $15
July 12th: Gardens as Sacred Spaces Class, 10am—noon
Do you love plants? Consider what it means to live with plants, and how we can each make our garden dreams come true. Join Julie Witmer for her popular adult gardening class that is equal parts inspiration & how to!
An inspiring look at the spiritual and practical connections between people and plants, stories of inspirational gardeners from the past, a dozen practical design ideas for small and large gardens to create a more immersive experience, and important tips for getting started! Adults. $25
July 29th: Phipps Conservatory Summer Short Course: Designing for Beauty and Ecology
Julie Witmer will be speaking about “Building A Border Backwards” on July 29th at 1 pm at Phipps’ conference in partnership with Penn State Master Gardeners’ Program.
Learn how to create a perennial mixed border that will give you year-round beauty while also creating a positive ecological impact every month of the year. The “border backwards” technique will explain the benefits of thinking in reverse seasonal order to include a variety of plants into a low-maintenance, long lasting border display.
Early registration $95. Tickets here
Havenwood House & Gardens 