Join Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Friday, July 13 and travel to Bedrock Gardens (pictured below) in Lee, New Hampshire to enjoy a garden tour followed by a picnic lunch and time to explore on your own. In the afternoon, visit Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, New Hampshire. The group will leave Tower Hill at 8 am and return at 5 pm.
Bedrock Gardens is a unique garden oasis. A former dairy farm in rural NH has been transformed over the past 30 years into a stunning landscape of diverse plant collection, varied landscape design, hardscaping, and extensive sculpture collection made from repurposed farm equipment. The garden includes many structural elements such as paths, an espaliered fence, an arborvitae hedge, architecturally interesting rocks, pergola, and garden art. The beds have exceptional plant varieties, often started as seedlings, including many unusual specimens of perennials, trees and shrubs.
Fuller Gardens is a public botanical garden that was once part of the summer estate of Alvan T. Fuller on the Seacoast of New Hampshire. It’s a delightful oasis situated a stone’s throw from the ocean. The gardens feature horticulture at the highest level, with thousands of rose bushes and hundreds of varieties that bloom all season long. Formal English perennial borders, a Japanese Garden and a tropical conservatory are all framed by sculpted hedges.
Tower Hill Member $150, Non-member $175; includes transportation, admissions to Bedrock Gardens and Fuller Gardens, guided tour of Bedrock Gardens, and box lunch. To register, visit www.towerhillbg.org. If you wish to travel to the gardens on your own, call 508-869-6111 to coordinate meeting times.
