Weekend garden events
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Valley View Farms, Cockeysville
Saturday, 9 a.m. Water Garden Installation: Learn to install your own water garden, enhancing your home landscape while creating a delightful place to relax with Valley View's Water Gardens Manager Tim McQuaid.
Saturday, 10 a.m.; Summer Gardening Tips: The staff will go over weed control, good watering practices and other summertime concerns and answer all of your questions.
Saturday, 11 a.m.; Make-and-Take a Culinary Herb Garden: Joann Weber, Valley View's herb specialist, will assist gardeners in planting a themed herb garden-- Salsa Garden, The Herbs of Tuscany, A Tea Lover’s Garden and several others. There will be a materials fee.
A Perennial Affair: Homestead Gardens, Davidsonville
Saturday, 10am: “Kids Club: Aquatic Life Up Close” with Water Gardening Specialist Dave Kemon (Fee: $10, which includes supplies for a frog planter)
10 am: “Grasses for Sun and Shade” with Master Gardener Lisa Winters
12 pm: “Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Beneficials” with radio gardening guru Mike McGrath
2 p.m.: “Perennial Trends in your Garden” with John Peter Thompson of Bay Friendly Plants
Sunday, 10 a.m.: Early Bird Stepables Demonstration: Enjoy coffee & light breakfast fare while making a delightful container garden filled with Stepables plants to take home. Fee is $50 for all materials / $45 Garden Club members.
12 p.m.: Native Options for your Landscape with Christopher Puttock from Chesapeake Natives
2 p.m.: Planting, Dividing, and Basic Perennial Care with Homestead Gardens Horticulturist Gene Sumi
Annapolis Arts and Crafts Festival
Saturday and Sun, Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, 10 am. to 6 p.m. both days. A new, juried arts and crafts festival offering a weekend of fine arts and handmade crafts, performances, wine tastings, good food and activities for the whole family. Please, no pets. Adults $8; Youth (ages 12 to 18) and Seniors (65 and up) $5; Children (12 and under) free.
West Annapolis 2nd Sunday Neighborhood Green Market.
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Giddings Avenue between Ridgely Avenue & Annapolis Street. Produce, plants, locally produced foods; green & local businesses, products & services; eco-friendly & upcycled green craft and art; vintage, repurposed & recycled antique goods. Child-friendly, dog-friendly - with free face painting by Crystalooneys.
Upcoming Second Market dates: June 13, July 11, August 8, September 12, OctoberFest November 14.
