NEWS & EVENTS

Art at the Harbor Way Gardens Plant and Plein Air Show. May 7-8, 2022. 10a-4p.

Stroll through Harbor Way Gardens for a special Mother's Day weekend open house. 
  • On Saturday May 7, Harbor Island Garden Club members will be on hand to answer questions about plants in the garden and for informal tours. Watch artists paint local scenes in the garden. Shop our Plant Sale featuring roses and herbs. Our cookbook, and personalized garden bricks and pavers - great gifts for Mother's Day - will also be available for sale. 
  • On Sunday May 8, Plein Air art sale begins at 11a. Shop our Plant Sale featuring roses and herbs. Our cookbook, and personalized garden bricks and pavers will also be available for sale. 
  • Admission: Free
  • Parking: Free in the grass lot adjacent to the garden. 

Are you a plein air painter? Please join us. Contact Star Sosa at Starsong123@gmail.com for more information.


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Earth Day. April 26, 2022. 5:30p

Please join us at Harbor Way Gardens for a tree planting as we celebrate Earth Day as well as remembrance to our members who have left the Earth.

​Celebrating HIGC members Sybel Booth and Ann Davis.

2022 Azalea Festival Garden Tour. April 8-10. 10a-5p.

We are thrilled to be back on the Cape Fear Garden Club Azalea Tour. Harbor Way Gardens is Garden #4. We'll have members on hand to answer any questions you have. Come see both native plants and many of the unique foliage we have. And don't forget to check out our Witherspoon Roses. 

2022 Art & the Bloom. Jan. 7-9

Click here for the winners of this year's event.

Join us for this three day event now in its fifth year featuring Fine Art & Floral Design. Meet the leading designers in North and South Carolina.

Featuring:
  • Meet the Designer Preview Party (Jan. 7)
  • Afternoon Tea & Fashion Show of jewelry by The Pearl Girl, Mariann Bower (Jan. 8-9)

​Event also includes:
  • Floral Design Demonstrations 
  • Painting Workshop
  • Edible Flower Workshop
  • Gallery art sales by the Wilmington Art Assoc.

For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

Presented by the New Hanover Garden Club and the Harbor Island Garden Club. Press release: NC Floral Design Exhibition Inspired by Art.

2021 Holiday Decorating Contest Winners

From the Harbor Island Garden Club, the Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee and the Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation Dept., thanks to all of the participants in this year's contest.  We look forward to seeing you next year!
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​This year, prizes were awarded to:
  • Best Overall Business: The Sandpeddler Inn & Suites, 15 Nathan St
  • Best Overall Residential: The Laughlin Home, 110 Live Oack Drive
  • Keeping with Tradition: The Lindsey Home, 1803 N Lumina Ave
  • Best Holiday Lighting: The Martin Residence, 407 N Channel Drive
  • Most Holiday Spirit: The Kaiser Home, 329 S. Lumina Ave.
  • Most Creative: The Martin Home, 407 N. Channel Dr.​

2021 Holiday Decorating Contest. Judging: Wed. Dec. 15

This year, prizes will be awarded for:
  • Keeping with Tradition
  • Best Holiday Lighting
  • Most Holiday Spirit​
  • Most Creative 
  • Best Overall Business
  • Best Overall Residential

​To register your Wrightsville Beach home or business, register online or call the Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation office at 910-256-7925. Include your name or business name, address, phone, and any special instructions.  You must register by noon on judging day.

​It's Back!! Festival in the Park. Nov. 27, 2021. 

Come see us at our booth at the NC Holiday Flotilla Festival in the Park. Our bricks and pavers make great gifts.  We'll also have handmade shell dishes and ornaments and soap for sale as well as our cookbook. The festival features craft vendors, bouncy houses, a children's train and car show. The festival features 75 to 90 vendors; a large play area for the children with bouncy houses and slides; the popular and relaxing Arab Choo-Choo train ride; arts and crafts booths; food vendors; and the antique, classic, and special interest car show. The car show has grown tremendously, with over 150 cars expected this year. Look for our pink booth.

Ability Garden Annual Poinsettia Sale.  Order by Nov. 5, 2021.

Help support the Ability Garden at the Arboretum.  Here's information for this year's event:

Do to COVID, this year's sale is online only. Orders must be in by Nov. 5.

Plants are available in white, pink and red, prices range from $10.00 - $24.00. 
Further option details are on the order form. 

Pick up for poinsettias will be Saturday, December 4th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 
at the New Hanover County Arboretum.

To place an order use this link, click here. 

Autumn Gatherings: Nov. 19-20, 2021

Join the Harbor Island Garden Club and New Hanover Garden Club for a NGC Flower Show. Free and open to the public.
Blockade Runner Beach Resort
275 Waynick Boulevard
Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480

Nov. 19 1p-5p
Nov. 20 10a-2p

Click for more information and for the rules.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month (OCTOBER)

​Each year, we write the names on pink ribbons
of those community members and family members who have fought breast cancer. We then hang those ribbons in Harbor Way Gardens. We invite you into the garden anytime to reflect, rejoice and remember.

Congratulations to the Winners of the Wrightsville Beach Marine Debris Poster Contest

Congratulations to Wrightsville Beach Elementary fourth grade students Brody Bardsley, Sasha Young, Virginia Grey Norvell, Leo Jackson, Hadley Cerrone, Madison Sawyer, Hadley Brown, and Wynn Bartlett (not pictured). They won the Marine Debris poster contest for the Town of Wrightsville Beach. These wonderful works of art will be made into permanent signs and posted at various spots around Wrightsville Beach. 

Read all about the contest at Intracoastal Living.