Black Cat Pottery
Where You Can Find Cheryl
Saturday, July 19, 11:00-8:00pm, and Sunday, July 20, 11:00am-6:00pm. Ferndale Market Days. City of Ferndale. Parking Lot #10 (adjacent to the library), Ferndale, MI 48220. Join Black Cat Pottery and over two dozen other purveyors for this new, dynamic event in downtown Ferndale. We'll have all your favorites: Bird Houses, Toad Houses, Itty Bitty Boxes, Sunflowers, Gerbera Daisies and more!
Sunday, July 27, 1:00-4:30pm. East English Village Garden Tour. East English Village Garden Club. East English Village , Detroit, MI 48224. Cheryl's garden is one of several featured on this neighborhood garden tour. Buy your tickets on the day of the event here or at 5911 Bishop St.
Saturday, August 2 (10:00am-7:00pm), and Sunday, August 3 (11:00am-5:00pm), 2025. Belle Isle Art Fair. Belle Isle Park, 1 Fountain Dr., Detroit, MI 48207. As featured in The Detroit News "Homestyle" section, add a touch of nature to your home and garden with hand-crafted stoneware designs including our iconic Sunflowers and Gerbera Daisies, Bird Houses and Toad Houses, Lanterns, Bird and Bug Bowls and more. Find us at Booth 460.
Saturday, August 9, 2025, 10:00am-2:00pm. 15th Annual Summer Garden Tour. 3903 Grayton St., Detroit, MI 48224. Join us for our Annual Summer Open House, now in its 15th year! See over 200 species of native plants—from seasonal forbs, grasses and ferns to native trees, shrubs and vines—in this unique Detroit garden. Every year, regardless of the weather, the native plants thrive, despite the vagaries of the weather and the gardener's schedule, and the wildlife shows up, from numerous butterflies and bees to birds of many feathers. If you're interested in learning more about the beauties and benefits of including native plants on your property, join us!
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The tour also features our own garden-inspired art, including items from Black Cat Pottery's ongoing Clearance event. (See our CLEARANCE SALE! section on the menu bar at the top of the page.) Every purchase of Black Cat Pottery designs garners you a free Fairy House! We are excited to feature plants from Detroit Wildflower Nursery​ grown by our friend Mitchell Swindell (image top, left) to help plump up your native plant garden as well as fabulous up-and-coming wildlife and landscape artist Brian Fritz, who will be doing some plein air painting in the gardens during the tour as well (image bottom, left).
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This self-guided tour is free and open to the public; no registration is required.
Saturday, August 16, 2025,10:00am-12:00noon. North Oakland Wild Ones Tour of the Sibley House Native Plant Garden. Christ Church Detroit, 960 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit, MI 48207. In 2014, I was contracted to design and install a native plant garden at Sibley House on the Christ Church Detroit campus. An unusually narrow site, we included both woodland edge and tallgrass species to suit the context. For many years, the garden was maintained by volunteers, until circumstances necessitated my help beginning in 2021. Since then, with the occasional assistance of one of my treasured mentors, we have worked to maintain and enhance the garden. We have seen a consistent increase in the garden's biodiversity, despite its location just outside Detroit's downtown. This is a private tour for member of North Oakland Wild Ones, as part of their annual garden tour series.
Saturday, September 13 (10:00am-6:00pm), and Sunday, September 14 (10:00am-4:00pm), 2025. Traverse City Downtown Art Fair. Rotary Square, 203 S. Union St., Traverse City, MI 49684. As featured in The Detroit News "Homestyle" section, add a touch of nature to your home and garden with hand-crafted stoneware designs including our iconic Sunflowers and Gerbera Daisies, Bird Houses and Toad Houses, Lanterns, Bird and Bug Bowls and more.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 7:00-9:00pm). North Oakland Wild Ones. Johnson Nature Center, 3325 Franklin Rd., Bloomfield Township, MI 48202. "Right Plant, Right Place". Johnson Nature Center, 3325 Franklin Rd., Bloomfield Township, MI 48202. Not sure what to plant in your habitat garden? It can be confusing, especially as conventional wisdom relating to traditional garden plants doesn’t always apply. Learn how, through informed plant selection, you can create or expand your habitat garden successfully.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 6:00-8:00pm). Center Line Public Library, 7345 Weingartz St., Center Line, MI 48015. "The Late Show: Bring Your Fall Garden to Life with Native Plants". Fall is often a difficult time in the Midwestern garden – unless you look to native plants. From Asters to Goldenrods, learn how you can extend your gardening season through the judicious selection of Michigan species at their best for the most exciting Late Show of all.