Growing by leaps and bounds: The Florence Griswold Museum kicks off its annual GardenFest this week, focusing on all sorts of green-related art and activities.

Petal to the metal: A new outdoor sculpture has been installed at the museum, and it officially opens Saturday. Matthew Geller's Anticipator uses as its base a branch from a tree that Florence Griswold planted in the 1920s. Geller then created Corten-steel branches - which emit mist and colored lights. As part of Anticipator Day 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, there will be crafts 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and dancing for families with L'Ana Burton at 2 p.m.

Perenially engaging: The museum's Garden Gang holds its annual plant sale 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, with many of the offerings similar to what's in the site's historic gardens.

First you must find... another shrubbery! But wait! There's more! There's also: flower-pot decorating, 1-5 p.m. Sunday; "Bushed: Surveying the Shrubbery" with Landscape Historian Sheila Wertheimer, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tuesday; and "A Potted History of Gardening" with Susan Tamulevich, garden historian and executive director of the New London Maritime Society's Custom House Maritime Museum, 3 p.m. Wednesday.

GardenFest continues on with more festivities through June 16.

- KRISTINA DORSEY

GardenFest, June 7-16, Florence Griswold Museum,

96 Lyme St., Old Lyme; museum admission $10 adults,

$9 seniors, $8 students, free to ages 12 and under;

(860) 434-5542, ext., FlorenceGriswoldMuseum.org.