Boston Flora

Month: June 2012

  • Saturday, June 30, 10:00 am – 2:30 pm – US Navy Band Northeast at Christopher Columbus Park

    The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park will host a family friendly day on Saturday, June 30, beginning with a parade through the park at 10 am, followed by numerous family activities including a magician, juggler, storyteller, and face painting.  At 1:30, the US Navy Bank Northeast will perform a concert (they are pictured below performing on the Today Show.)  The Park is located at 100 Atlantic Avenue in Boston.  The event is the kickoff of a week long celebration commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812, culminating in the Tall Ships/Fourth of July Celebration.  The event is free, and has received the generous support of Al Dente Restaurant, Benevento’s Restaurant, Boston Pushcarts, and Century Bank.  The North End Music and Performing Arts Center will participate with musicians, singers, and its unique musical petting zoo.  For more information, contact Joanne Hayes-Rines at 617-283-0981, or email jhayesrines@gmail.com.

  • Tuesday, July 10, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Design Inspirations from New England’s Wild Landscapes

    Recapture the flavor of your favorite part of New England by designing a native plant community into your garden.  This Tuesday, July 10 lecture at Garden in the Woods in Framingham will include several examples of local naturalistic landscapes, some wild sites that “just grew,” some managed natural landscapes, and some that were designed as a recreation of a woodland, seacoast, or meadow location.  The instructor will be Laura Eisener, principal landscape designer at Laura D. Eisener Landscape Design.  Fee is $24 for NEWFS and ELA members, $29 for nonmembers.  Register at www.ecolandscaping.org.

  • Saturday, June 16, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, and Sunday, June 17, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Mad Hatter Tea Party

    Saturday, June 16, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, and Sunday, June 17, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Mad Hatter Tea Party

    The Chelmsford Garden Club will present a Garden Tour and Mad Hatter Tea Party Fundraiser on Saturday, June 16 from 10-4 p,m. and Sunday June 17 from 1-4 p.m. There will be six private gardens to tour and a Mad Hatter Tea Party with Mad Hatter floral arrangements from local florists at the historic Garrison House. At 2 p.m. there will be a lecture by Alan and Alison Tannebaum who will give a lecture on Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll.

    Tickets are $20 which includes the tour and tea available for purchase at the Java Room or Harrington Liquor Store or call Judy at 978-256-5045 or email marylou83@comcast.net. Proceeds will benefit the Club’s civic projects.

     

     

     

     

  • Thursday, June 21, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Historic Duxbury Garden Tour

    The Community Garden Club of Duxbury will sponsor a tour on Thursday, June 21 from 10 am – 3 pm (rain date Friday, June 22.)  Advance tickets for $20 will be available at Consider the Lilies, Foodies Market, Sandy Lambert’s Market Place, Talbots Snug Harbor, and Westwinds Bookshop.  Day of tour tickets will be priced at $25.  Refreshments, using historic recipes, will be provided by The Catered Affair.  The tour is also sponsored by the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society and 375 Duxbury.  Visit www.communitygardenclubofduxbury.org.

  • Thursday, June 28, 5:30 pm – Annual NABB-Q

    School’s out and the warm weather has finally already arrived! Come celebrate the summer with your neighbors while enjoying hamburgers and hot dogs–fresh off the grill! There will also be picnic salads and ice cream at NABB’s annual Summer Barbeque. Advance tickets for this Thursday, June 28 event are available on the NABB website (www.nabbonline.com) at $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. A limited number of tickets will be available at the gate.

  • Wednesday, July 11, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Sandwich Garden Tour

    Visit a number of lovely, private home gardens in Sandwich at your leisure anytime between 10am and 4pm on Wednesday, July 11.  Enjoy light refreshments served overlooking the award-winning Wildflower Garden (below) at the Green Briar Nature Center.  Tickets are $15, and all proceeds benefit the environmental education programs of the Thornton W. Burgess Society and its Green Briar Nature Center.  Tickets, which contain a map and directions to each garden on the tour, are available in advance at Green Briar or on the day of the tour.  Rain date is Friday, July 13.  For further information, call 508-888-6870.

  • Saturdays, July 7 – July 21, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Fun on the Farm

    Gore Place, 52 Gore Street in Waltham, will sponsor a series of family activities on Saturdays from July 7 – 21. Fun on the Farm (July 7), is a visit to the farm, the animals and gardens. Free. Fun With Butterflies (July 14), will feature activities in the mansion and gardens, $5 per. Fun with Weaving (July 21), is a hands-on activity for all ages with weaving instructor Beth Guertin, $5 plus material costs.For more information call 781-894-2798, or email events@goreplace.org.

  • Thursday, June 21, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Open Days Garden Tour in Nantucket

    Explore seven private gardens on Nantucket, open to the public to benefit the Garden Conservancy and Sustainable Nantucket. No reservations required; rain or shine.  Special highlights include topiary lilac, a homemade greenhouse, a charming garden shed, and a copper-lined rill among the plants.  Begin at 11 Mill Street, where volunteers will be available to assist and answer questions, or see website, www.gardenconservancy.org,  for additional locations. Most gardens can be reached by walking or biking. $5 per garden. Please note that Moors End Farm, 40 Polpis Road, is also open on this date, offering plants and produce available for purchase (see proprietor Sam Slosek below – photo by Nicole Harnishfeger).

    11 Mill Street is old fashioned and whimsical.  Heathland Gardens at 131 Polpis Road abuts the Middle Moors with a peek at the harbor, and includes many perennial beds connected by stone walks.  Kathryn Young’s Secret Garden at 77 Polpis Road is hidden in the scrub oak and wild shrubbery, and contains five areas of perennials and roses.  The Morash Victory Garden at 41 Shawkemo Road has expanded several times during the past thirty years.  Today, two deer fences protect twenty raised beds.  The MacKenzie Garden at 35 India Street was designed by Nantucket landscape designer Lucinda Young in 2008, with garden designer Kristina Wixted collaborating on the choice of herbaceous flowering plants.  The Tristram Bunker House is nearly 300 years old and was originally located in Nantucket’s early harbor town of Sherburne.  It was moved to its present location (address will be disclosed through the Open Days Directory or at any of the other gardens open the day of tour) in 1756. The Twin Street Gardens at 1 Twin Street is a charming downtown garden behind large hedges.

     

  • Thursday, June 21, 7:00 pm – Composting

    As part of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s “Thursday at the Hort” presentation program, hear Ann McGovern of the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Agency speak on Thursday, June 21, beginning at 7 pm at Elm Bank on the topic of Composting. “Thursday at the Hort” presentations begin at 7 pm and go until all questions are answered. The classes are priced at $12 for members and $15 for non-members unless otherwise indicated. There is no need to pre-register and you may pay at the class.  For more information visit www.masshort.org.

  • Wednesday, June 13, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The Esplanade Association Annual Meeting

    On June 13th, The Esplanade Association (TEA) will host its 11th Annual Meeting at The Hampshire House, 84 Beacon Street, Boston, and they hope you will join them.  Edward M. Lambert, Jr., Commissioner, Department of Conservation and Recreation, will also address the audience.  With the unveiling of Esplanade 2020: A Vision for the Future earlier this year, increased horticulture care, organizational growth, and more, there is much to update you on.

    TEA is pleased to welcome Lawrence R. Hott as the Keynote Speaker. Mr. Hott will present a short clip of his new film on Olmsted which will set the stage for his talk,The Boss of Free Time: Olmsted and the Democratization of American Leisure.  Lawrence R. Hott has been producing documentary films since 1978, when he left the practice of law to join Florentine Films. His awards include an Emmy, two Academy Award nominations, a George Foster Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the Erik Barnouw Award, five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, Fourteen CINE Golden Eagles, screenings at Telluride, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational, and New England Film Festivals.

    Hott was the Fulbright Fellow in Film and Television in the United Kingdom in 1994. He received the Humanities Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities in 1995; a Massachusetts Cultural Council/Boston Film and Video Foundation Fellowship in 2001; and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2001. He has been on the board of non-fiction writers at Smith College and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Commission, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Director’s Guild of America.

    His recent films for national PBS broadcast include Through Deaf Eyes, American Masters John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature, Niagara Falls, The Return of the Cuyahoga, Imagining Robert and The War of 1812. He is now producing Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America and Rising Voices: The Revitalization of the Lakota Language. Edward M. Lambert, Jr., Commissioner, Department of Conservation and Recreation, will also be in attendance and has offered to say a few words to the audience.

    TEA’s Annual Meeting is a member event. If you are not a member, but would like to attend, please join today!

    For more information and to RSVP, visit www.esplanadeassociation.org.