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Our Mission: To educate and inspire members of our community to become more complete gardeners.

Tomato Tasting at Kurlbaum Farm.

Wednesday, July 31, 2024
6:30 p.m.
Kurlbaum Farms in Kansas City, Kansas

An evening for Gardeners Connect Members. Come visit Kurlbaum Farms and have tomato-bacon-lettuce sandwiches (“TBLs,” because tomatoes are the star), plus iced tea and lemonade to drink. Anyone is welcome to bring a dish to share, potluck style, though it is not required.

Registration is free and this event is open to Gardener Connect members only. Memberships start at just $30. Join today.

Attendees should receive an order confirmation immediately after registration. Once your membership status has been confirmed you will receive further details and exact address.

Rain Date Thursday, August 1.

Speaker Series

  • Growing Trees as Mother Nature Intended with Matt Evans

    Tuesday, November 12, 2024
    7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

    Gardeners Connect Free Speaker Series

    Free, Open to the Public, No Reservations Required

    Merriam Community Center
    Kessler/Loomis Rooms
    6040 Slater
    Merriam, KS 66202

Member Garden Visits

  • Garden with Art in Old Briarcliff with Phyllis Carlyle

    Thursday, June 27, 2024
    6:30 p.m.

    Gardeners Connect Member Garden Visits

    Free, Open to Gardeners Connect Members Only, Reservations Required

    This garden has not been open before to member visits. Your main takeaways from touring Phyllis Carlyle’s garden in Old Briarcliff will be seeing many native plants, a casual gardening style, and that this woman likes yard art! In 2015, she moved to her 1943 cottage-style home with a spacious but somewhat empty yard. Since the neighborhood was developed in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, it is full of mature trees and better than average soil. With a goal to have a lower maintenance landscape than her previous home, she has added many shrubs, trees and perennials to her yard, at least half of them natives. She keeps creating new mulched planting areas wherever grass doesn’t grow and mostly uses purchased and self-created yard art for pops of color instead of annuals.

  • The Wildlife Garden Estate with Lenora Larson

    Saturday, June 29, 2024
    10:00 a.m.

    Gardeners Connect Member Garden Visits

    Free, Open to Gardeners Connect Members Only, Reservations Required

    This 2 acre garden is certified as a butterfly and wildlife habitat, Monarch Waystation, and Pollinator Garden. The garden illustrates that the goals of beauty and wildlife habitat are not mutually exclusive. The garden exemplifies the English Estate landscape style with flowing curves and masses of plant material to create a painterly effect using ornamental and native plants. Bring a picnic lunch if you wish, to eat in the garden. Lenora will be in the garden to answer questions.

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.

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.

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.

  • Access to our online speaker series.

  • Travel with Gardeners Connect on guided tours both here in Kansas City and beyond.

  • Be a part of members only workshops.

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.