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Home | Events / Classes | May Day 2023 Celebration!

May Day 2023 Celebration!

Our Annual May Day Festivities and Spring Sale begin April 29th!

At Harlequin’s Gardens, we love to celebrate May Day. It is an ancient festival welcoming Spring and celebrating the beauty, fertility, and abundance of the earth.

Mikl remembers May Day growing up in a little town in Iowa where people celebrated May Basket Day, making little baskets out of construction paper, and filling them with candies, wildflowers and sometimes a note. These were taken to the homes of friends, neighbors or loved ones, set by the door, then the giver rang the doorbell and ran, so the giver would not be known.

Starting in England in the fifteenth century, and now in the US, it was traditional on May Day for Morris Dancers to perform their ancient dances to bring forth the Earth’s fertility.  And it has been a Harlequin’s tradition to host the Maroon Bells Morris Dancers for their lively dancing with bells, music, knocking sticks and waving scarves. It has become a tradition for Mikl to sing English Country Garden along with one of the Morris Dances.

It is also a Harlequin tradition to host superb, local,  live music because live music awakens us to the present moment, because it’s fun and because it is such a treat to be in the presence of artistic talent!

Morris Dancers


APRIL 29th – Saturday
10 – 11am.
Don’t miss the Maroon Bells Morris Dancers, who will bring us fertility and merriment!

 

MAY 6  – Saturday  It’s a full day of fun, with two musical guests!

Laughing Wood

10:30 am to 12:45 pm – Laughing Wood Marimba Band – Rockin’ rhythmic Zimbabwean traditional music on four marimbas, voices and drums!

 

 

Bangers & Blunders

1:30 pm to 3:00 pm – Bangers & Blunders (Shannon Meunchow & Graeme Danforth) – Boulder’s great new Celtic duo on fiddle, banjo and bouzouki

MAY 7  – Sunday  will be full of song.

Margot Krimmel

11:00am – 12:30pm – Margot Krimmel is back to bring us splendid traditional and original harp and vocals!

1:00pm to 2:30pm – Elena Klaver & Duffy Keith  will play lively Folk, Old-timey and original tunes & songs


 

May Day Plant Sale 

It is also appropriate, along with the festivities, to market plants, which enrich our communities with their beauty, shade, oxygen, and the habitat that supports many kinds of creatures with whom we share this planet. And to encourage you to go forth and multiply with the forces of Nature, we are offering our

DEEP DISCOUNT SALE SECTION: From April 29 through May 7, we will have a large selection of beautiful perennials, all very significantly marked down. And they are ALL neonic-free!

Plants in 2 ½” pots will be $3 (normally $4.95)
Plants in 4” pots
will be $4.75 (normally $8.25)
Perennials, Shrubs, Roses &Trees
in #1 and larger pots will be deeply discounted and marked at very low prices

MAY DAY Benefit for MEMBERS ONLY
As a ‘thank you’ to our members,  we are offering an additional benefit of $5 off a purchase of full-price plants totaling $50 or more. Roses, Fruit Trees and Houseplants are excluded from this sale.

Please come out and Celebrate

Earth Day, May Day, Beltane, International Workers Day and Harlequin’s Gardens 31st Aniversary!

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We do not ship plants!

Our plants are for sale ONLY at our Boulder location. We DO NOT ship plants or any other products. We do ship Gift Certificates. Come visit us!

Hours by Season

MARCH HOURS
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

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Contact Us

303-939-9403 (Retail)
staff@nullharlequinsgardens.com

4795 North 26th St
Boulder, CO 80301

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Our Hours

Seasonally, MARCH to OCTOBER.
MARCH HOURS:
Thursday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

APRIL-OCTOBER HOURS:
Tuesday-Sunday, 9AM-5PM

Mondays, CLOSED

The plants we grow are organically grown. All the plants we sell are free of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.