Garden Market Fair 2011

Sunday, May 22nd from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. was the date and time for the annual celebration of spring, gardens, and gardeners in Wilcox Park in the center of Westerly.   (And thank you God that it didn't rain!)


Wilcox Park in downtown Westerly overflowed with an abundance of greenery on Sunday, May 22 as the annual Garden Market Fair took place. (It overflowed with an abundance of people too!)


There were vendors from Rhode Island and Connecticut there selling annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vegetables- including organically grown ones, herbs, and garden accessories. There were also a large selection of hanging plant arrangements, and visitors were even able to find unusual plants at reasonable prices. (Reasonable prices? heh heh heh That's the politically correct way of saying Cheap! And tack on Variety and those are two of the many reasons I Love to go!)


Wilcox Park volunteers (Park Pals) were at the bandstand helping to sell plants from the park's collections. (That was the Kids Corner at the gazebo... I didn't get to do a craft this year... they told me I was too old. heh heh heh... okay so I really didn't even try to do a craft, I was to busy frolicking.)


Also present this year were vendors offering jewelry, fudge and candy. (There was Fudge there??)


And a local massage therapist was on hand to help alleviate those garden-related aches and pains. (Really? I didn't see that either? Now if only I wasn't so busy hunting I could have had a massage... right there in the park... as thousands of people walked by... okay maybe not...)


This annual celebration of spring; gardens; and gardeners was organized and run by a group of volunteers and the Wilcox Park grounds crew. (And Thank you all very much for doing it! It is something I always look forward to doing every spring! Ü)


At 1:00 the Westerly Town Band also gave an afternoon concert behind the library. (It was a lovely concert too. I could hear it in the distance as I cavorted about.)


I adapted the tense of te above story which was taken from the Westerly Sun
to reflect that it was a 'past' event and not 'future'.
Also everything in the (.) is my comments... in case you couldn't tell!


And if you wished you could have been there, you're in luck... here is pictures from the days events -


Okay I have set this to play in high definition on youtube but it seems the settings are individually controlled and it automatically plays iat a low quality. So to see it 'not blurry' you may have to change it yourself?... stupid! Why did they even bother asking me if I wanted it to play in high definition if it doesn't automatically do it?  

Container Gardening

Every year, sometime in the beginning of May, I swing by my mother-in-laws house and pick up this planter (pictured below) and take it home with me. I then pull out all the old dead 'stuff' from the previous year, refreshen the soil and refill it with new live 'stuff', and then return it to her for her Mother's Day gift!
This is what it looked like when I brought it back to her this year. 

I love the bright festive colors!

This next picture is of my cast iron urn that I found a few years ago at a yard sale. At this particular residence we were at, they had everything for sale. If it could be moved you could buy it! My husband couldn't believe that I actually hauled this thing out of the woods and over to the truck... what can I say?
I really wanted it!
hehehehe

I bet you would have done the same thing!

And the two terra cotta window boxes below I bought at the Goodwill for $3.99 each. I was surprised they were that cheap and they looked like they had never been used either!

Pretty pretty, eh?

When ever I first plant up my pots, they never seem to look all that great... but I have high expectations this year and imagine, that in a month or so, all these fantastically brilliant colors will be cascading over the edges of their pots and down the sides in a sorta Rapunzel like way!

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