Celebrate the arrival of fall at Cogswell’s Grant in Essex, Massachusetts. Families will enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, choose pumpkins to decorate, compete in a pumpkin pie-eating contest, do craft activities, play games, and try cider pressing. Enjoy hot mulled apple cider and homemade pumpkin pie. The historic house is open for tours. Free to members of Historic New England, $6 for non members, $4 for children. For more information, call 978-768-3632.
Month: September 2008
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Wednesday, October 15, 10 a.m. – Isabella Stewart Gardner: America’s First Patroness of the Arts
Character reenactor Jessa Piaia will present a dramatic portrayal set in 1909, six years after the opening of Fenway Court. The portrayal runs approximately an hour in length, and details may be found in the calendar portion of this web site. An elegant optional “period” lunch will follow, featuring vegetable consomme with confetti of root vegetables, duck a l’orange, wild rice, candied baby carrots, and an elegant dessert for $25 per person. Co-sponsored with The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue, where the event will take place. To reserve, contact The Garden Club of the Back Bay through this web site.
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Through October 31 – Lost Gardens of Cape Cod
In the newly-renovated space in the Heritage History Museum, see a traveling exhibition from Historic New England, Lost Gardens of New England, supplemented by a special addition about the lost gardens of Cape Cod. Visitors will be transported into a secret garden featuring historic photographs and paintings of what once were some of New England’s most beautiful gardens. The exhibit also features exquisite examples of antique garden seating and statuary. Heritage Museums and Gardens, 67 Grove Street, Sandwich, MA 02563. For times and information, call 508-888-3300.
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Friday, October 17 – Sunday, October 19 – Fall Orchid Sale
Lyman Estate Greenhouses, Waltham, MA. Hundreds of orchid plants are for sale, including many hard-to-find varieties. Visit these antique greenhouses and enjoy gorgeous floral colors, shapes, and scents. Among the many varieties on display and for sale will be Cattleyas, Laelias, Oncidiums, Paphiopedilum, and Phalaenopsis. Free admission. For information call 781-891-4882, ext. 244.
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Thursday, October 16, 10 – 3:30 – Historic Preservation of Gardens Workshop & Garden Tour
Come to the Fuller Conference Center at Old Sturbridge Village, take a guided tour of 4 gardens, and hear a lecture about researching and designing the gardens, criteria used, and selection of historically appropriate plant materials by Christie Higginbottom. Elizabeth Ingleheart, architectural and landscape historian and the National Register Coordinator for the National Park Service, will speak on how to list a garden on the National Historic Register. Karen Herman, Andover Preservation Commission Chair, will speak on Funding through the Community Preservation Act. For more information, and to register, visit www.GCFM.org, or send a check ($17.50 for registration, $12.50 box lunch fee) to GCFM, c/o Winnie Fitzpatrick, Registrar, Box 660, West Falmouth, MA 02574.
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Sunday, September 21, 1 – 4:30 pm – Touring Urban Wilds
The Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign) is presenting a different kind of garden tour – Touring Urban Wilds and Gardens: On the Bus – from 1pm to 4:30 pm. Transformed from neglected lots and urban blight to lush gardens and tranquil places, tour sites in Brookline and Boston have been touched and renewed by COG designers and their community clients. Highlights include a gloriously colorful perennial garden, designed for a windy seaside site, overlooking sparkling Dorchester Bay, a quirky neighborhood park featuring native shrubs and trees, stonedust path for strolling, meadow and orchard, plus a destination for rock climbing, and a sunken urban terrace with arbor and ornamental trees for privacy, leafy gardens, and a ten foot tall stone wall. Afternoon tea will be served at the historic Shirley Eustis Carriage House, once owned by Isabella Stewart Gardner and meticulously rebuilt on its current Roxbury site. Ticket price is $40, which includes the tour bus and tea. Limited seating. Visit www.cogdesign.org to register, or call 781-642-6662. Proceeds benefit community greening projects.
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Saturday, September 20 – FensFest
The Fenway Garden Society invites us to attend FensFest garden harvest festival on Saturday, September 20 (rain date Sunday, September 21), from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Fenway Victory Gardens on the central green. Enjoy live music, free cookout, plant swap, white elephant sale, raffles, and garden awards. For additional information email Victoria@notelevision.com.
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Friday, September 12, 6:30 pm – Moondance Gala
The Esplanade Association hosts this spectacular event to raise funds to restore and care for the park, repair docks, landings, statues, initiate landscape renewal and preservation projects, renovate athletic facilities, support community outreach, cultural, recreational and educational park programs. For tickets ($750 individual ticket price), call 617-227-0365 or email info@esplanadeassociation.org.