Today’s vendor spotlight is Hillside Nursery from Ashfield, MA and we will let them speak for themselves: We are a woman-owned nursery that specializes in woodland wildflowers and lady slipper orchids. We have a good selection of native plants and exotic shade plants from Europe and Asia.Picture 1: Anemonella thalictroides…

We have added another author to our signing table! Stephanie Mahon is the editor of Gardens Illustrated, BSME Editor of the year 2024 and 2025, and host of the Talking Gardens podcast. She will be here signing her new book “The New Beautiful”. It’s a lavishly photographed collection of new…

Plant Fair will again be hosting WATERFOWL! Do you need a duck? A goose? Another duck? YOU DO. Myles Bowen Waterfowl is coming back to Plant Fair and if I had to guess I’d say he’s bringing things with wings that also swim and eat slugs. (plz keep your leashed…

Grease up those wagon wheels, clear out the trunk, and get ready to load it up with beautiful plants from The Bunker Farm! Our lovely friend Helen will be bringing some of her more frost tolerant selections of annuals, biennials, and perennials- many of the classics people are hoping to…

Glendale Botanicals is returning to Sakonnet plant sale for its 4th year as a vendor! Rob grows some exquisite rare tropicals so if that’s your thing you can get behind me in line. This year the offerings include sculptural agaves, dramatic platyceriums, vibrant bromeliads, begonias, and striking philodendrons. With a…

The RI/MA southcoast region is a treasure trove of small farms and micro-growers a few of which specialize in native plants. Two of these smaller enterprises are coming to Plant Fair for the first time. Butterfly Effect Farm, a native plant nursery in Westport, Ma, carries native straight species from…

We feel so fortunate to have vendors come to town from a long way off (especially by RI standards!). Most of us know PA-based Edgewood Gardens for its exquisite, near impossible to find gems of the early spring garden -Cyclamen, Trillium, Galantis and species Peonies- but even the most detail…

In celebration of today being the Average Last Frost Date for Little Compton let’s talk about vegetables! Another charming Plant Fair regular is Andrea Toscano from upstate NY with her unusual and very hearty veg and flower collection. This year Andrea is bringing Wapsipinicon Peach Tomato, a super sweet tomato…