Educating Gardeners Like You Since 1958
Our Mission: To educate and inspire members of our community to become more complete gardeners.
Upcoming Events
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The Cottage Garden with Marla Galetti
Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 9 a.m.
A Gardeners Connect Member Garden Visit
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Marla's cottage style garden is set on two acres, near Parkville. It has been an ongoing work in progress for the last 35 years. There is a large array of seasonal blooming bushes, annuals, perennials, vegetables and tropical plants. Some of the more unusual perennials are Crambe cordifolia, Thalictrum, Veronicastrum, Cassia (popcorn plant) and Acanthus (bear breeches). There are many vantage points to sit and enjoy the garden as well as a swimming pool, fish pond and a greenhouse that makes it possible to winter over tropical plants and to grow a wide variety of of plants from seed to fill the garden. See you in the garden.
This garden is located in Platte County between Parkville and Riverside off of I-635 and MO-9 highways.
Exact address of the garden will be email to attendees the week before the Member Garden Visit.
Reservations Required. Members Only.
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Plant Geek Saturday 2026
Saturday, October 10, 2026
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Doors Open at 9:00 a.m.Plants are where it’s at with gardening. That’s what a lot of us think. Yes, design is interesting, but wide paths and areas to entertain don’t invigorate the same way as the cool plants.
For those who love to collect interesting, beautiful plants, Gardeners Connect has created Plant Geek Saturday.
Think something like the Kansas City Garden Symposium but entirely focused on the plants for avid gardeners and collectors.
We continue of Plant Geek Saturday, we will focus on some of the newest plant recommendations from Chicago Botanic Garden, Fall planted Spring bulbs, and spuria iris. Three plant geek enablers have been invited to entice us with an array of interesting plants. Plants that thrive in climates like ours.
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Dragonflies: Aerial Beauties
Take another look at the acrobatic daredevils and hunters in your garden known as dragonflies.
Why they are an important part of your gardens ecosystem, their life-cycle and why they are important to the gardener.
Originally published in the July-August 2026 issue of the Gardeners Connect Newsletter. Download it know with full color photos, facts and myths about the garden beauties.
Member Garden Visits
Open your garden to other Gardeners Connect Members. You pick the date, time and number of attendees your garden can accommodate. Email info@gardenersconnect.org for more details in opening your garden.
All Member Garden Visits are rain or shine. Any cancellations or changes will be emailed to attendees and updated on the website.
Please check here for the latest information regarding any Member Garden Visits.
Gardeners Connect Cookbook - Recipes
Recipes from the past 20 or so years of the Gardeners Connect Newsletter.
60 pages. 115 recipes. Digital Download.
Discover the Benefits of Membership.
Our members make it possible.
We believe that every great gardener should have the opportunity to keep learning no matter their skill level. We strive to offer those opportunities in everything we do from our excellent speakers to our newsletter filled with pertinent garden information and articles cultivated especially for the Midwestern gardener.
Gardeners Connect newsletter published every other month and delivered to your mailbox.
Access to Member Garden Visits to private gardens.
Travel with Gardeners Connect on guided tours both here in Kansas City and beyond.
Be a part of members only workshops.
Diversity & Inclusion
Gardeners Connect is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and community, which is open to and welcomes everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or identity, or country of origin. We are committed to acceptance, non-discrimination, and equal opportunity for all and believe diversity in our members and participants greatly benefits our organization and community. We are committed to making everyone feel welcome, accepted, respected, and appreciated.
A welcoming and diverse garden is a great garden.
Gardeners Connect is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization incorporated in 1958 to promote and encourage among citizens of the metropolitan Kansas City area and beyond an interest in horticulture and related garden activities, to carry on an educational program pertaining thereto, and to provide a place or places where such activities may be conducted in order to attain a more attractive and beautiful community.
