Boston Flora

Month: June 2009

  • Saturday, June 20, 10 – 4 – South End Garden Tour

    Roof decks, patio spaces, backyards, neighborhood parks and community gardens will be part of the 16th annual South End Garden Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds benefit the South End/Lower Roxbury Open Space Land Trust, which owns and maintains 16 community gardens. Tickets, $20, will be sold at the South End Branch of the Boston Public Library, 685 Tremont Street (Rutland Square). Advance tickets, $17, and information at (617) 437-0999 and southendgardentour.org.  This year, there is a special ticket price to members of area garden clubs.  If you purchase 5 tickets or more, the price drops to $15 per person.  This is called the “carpool discount” – just mention your affiliation with the Garden Club of the Back Bay when you call to reserve.


  • Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21 – Rose Weekend

    Rose Weekend has been held annually for more than a century in Hartford, Connecticut’s Elizabeth Park, the nation’s oldest municipal  rose garden. It is a two and one half acre garden  which has about 800 varieties of roses that amount to 15,000 plants .  Rambling roses cover arched walkways in the garden and the beds are filled with roses of every shape and color.  Along the border, fences of climbing and shrub roses provide a colorful background for the bedding plants.  The Rose Garden is one of only 22 public All America Test Gardens in the country.  This test program evaluates new roses before they are introduced to the general public.  While the main rose garden shows off the more modern roses, the Heritage Rose Garden is the home to more historical varieties.  A number of unusual and interesting roses are found here.  During its peak bloom time of early to mid June, it is the most fragrant place to be in the park.For more information, call 860-231-9443, or log on to www.elizabethpark.org.

  • Saturday, June 6, 10 – 1 – Volunteer Day in Olmsted Park Woodlands

    To help ensure the health and the future of Olmsted Park’s Woodlands From Spring to Fall the Emerald Necklace Conservancy offers regular volunteer days on the first Saturday of each month. You can help remove invasive non-native plants, rejuvenate the soil, restore paths, and plant for species diversity and forest health.Please sign up in advance to projectassistant@emeraldnecklace.org . Bring a trowel if you have one and your own water bottle. We will provide gloves. Meet at the Daisy Field parking lot. For directions, log on to www.emeraldnecklace.org.