Garden Event Weekend to the MAX

Do not call me, text me, email, etc.! Well, at least do not not EXCEPT a response this week. Nothing personal, but there is WAY too much going on in the local gardening world her is the DC-Baltimore corridor and far too few hours in a day. Those marked with a * are the ones I'll be attending.

Here is a sampling of what is going on this first full weekend of May:

~ Silver Spring Garden Club GardenMart at Brookside Gardens*
~ National Public Garden Day*
~ Cathedral Flowermart 2011*
~ Capitol Hill Restoration Society house and garden tour*
~ Georgetown Garden Tour*
~ 6th annual Herb Day celebration at the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory
~ Cylburn Arboretum Market Day
~ Carderock Garden Tour Day in Bethesda, MD
~ Square Foot Gardening­ workshop in College Park, MD

~ Container Gardening Class with Montgomery County Master Gardener Donald Snyder at

the City of Takoma Park Community Center
~ NFI May seedling sales at Community Forklift
~ Baltimore FlowerMart
~ Tudor Place Mother's Day Tea
~ Green Spring Gardens Basic Gardening: Edibles and Ornamentals-Mix it Up! plus a Mother's Day Tea
~ The State Arboretum of Virginia 22nd annual Garden Fair
~  Talk on One of Americas Oldest Gardens at the Maryland Historical Society
~ Smithsonian Gardens Garden Fest*
~ Green Landscaping For You and the Chesapeake Bay at the Cora Kelly School, Alexandria, VA

Know of more local Mid-Atlantic garden events this weekend? Add them in the comments here.