Garden Girl Pop-Up at Nana’s Mystic

Garden Girl Pop-Up at Nana’s Mystic brings plants, flowers, coffee, and small-town spring energy together on Saturday, May 9, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The one-day pop-up transforms the Mystic café into a colorful Mother’s Day weekend stop filled with heirloom tomato plants, bouquets, garden merchandise, and seasonal shopping. It’s the kind of relaxed local event where people wander in for coffee and leave balancing flowers, plants, and boxes of pastries back to the car.

The centerpiece of the event is Garden Girl’s massive collection of heirloom tomato plants, with more than 250 varieties in different colors, shapes, and sizes available for home gardeners preparing for the season. Alongside the tomatoes will be orange cosmos, nasturtiums, fresh Mother’s Day bouquets, and Garden Girl merchandise, including the much-requested shirts that have developed a local following. The setup leans heavily into the cozy gardening culture that takes over southeastern Connecticut every spring.

What gives the pop-up its charm is the combination of atmosphere and personality. Guests can grab coffee or pizza from Nana’s while browsing plants and chatting about gardening plans before heading home to spend the afternoon digging in the dirt. Between the flowers, merch, and heirloom tomatoes, the event feels less like a formal market and more like a spring gathering for people who genuinely love gardening season on the shoreline.