Our Annual May Day Festivities and Spring Sale begin May 4th!
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
Come Shop and Enjoy our Annual
MAY DAY CELEBRATION & PLANT SALE!
May 4 through May 12th
Saturday, May 4th
10 am – don’t miss the Maroon Bells Morris Dancers, who will bring us fertility and merriment!
11am – Enjoy the music of Margot Krimmel – Splendid traditional and original harp & vocals
Pete and Joan Wernick
1pm – Dr. Banjo, Pete Wernick (Hot Rize) and his singer-guitarist wife Joan: one of bluegrass music’s most appealing and enduring performing couples. LIVE at Harlequin’s !!!
Laughing Wood Marimba Band
Sunday May 5th
11 am to 12:30 pm – Laughing Wood Marimba Band – Rockin’ rhythmic Zimbabwean traditional music on four marimbas, voices and drums!
Sunday May 12th – Mother’s Day!
12:30 – 2:00 – Sandra Wong and Jon Sousa play international music on fiddle and nykelharpa, and guitar and banjo with breathtaking skill, passion, energy and heart.
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 May 4 through May 12th, we will have a large selection of beautiful perennials, all Harlequin’s organically grown, at WHOLESALE prices. And they are ALL neonic-free!
Plants in 4” pots will be $4.95 (normally $8.50 – $9.30)
Perennials, Shrubs, Roses &Trees in #1 and larger pots will be individually 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 $10 off a one-time 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 32nd Anniversary!