Weekly Garden Calendar for the Lower Hudson Valley | In the Garden

by Bill Cary

North Salem: Library Fair and Book Sale. Let your children enjoy the fun and antique lawn games while you browse for books. Buy lunch at the grill under the tent and home-made goodies at the bake sale. There will be music by local musicians and bands. Also: perennials and shrubs from local gardeners, herbs, annuals, house plants, heirloom tomatoes, flower bouquets. Free. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Also 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Ruth Keeler Library, 276 Titicus Road. 914-669-5161.

Bronx: Bird Walk. Look for species that live in the botanical garden year-round, and migrating birds. Saturdays at 11 a.m. through June 30. Admission is from $2 to $20. www.nybg.org. 11 a.m. New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard. 718-817-8700.

Bronx: “The Art of the Garden Tool: Dibbles and Daisy Grubbers,” from the extensive collection of landscape architect Mark K. Morrison. May 1-July 1. www.bpmm.org. Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Road. 718-885-1461.

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