Plum Artists

Presby Memorial Iris Gardens (now an official Essex County Park!) is absolutely beautiful during its bloom season, which this year is from May 16 to June 7. Why not visit if you haven’t recently, and while there, check out the Bloom Room garden shop, which for the second year will be selling packaged note cards with images of Stefanie’s painting “Presby Gardens in May.” The shop, at 474 Upper Mountain Avenue, is open May 9 from 10 to 5, May 10 from 11 to 2, and then reopening May 16 with regular hours of 10 to 8 daily.