Daily Archives: April 16, 2019

Thursday, May 16, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – 90th Annual Tour of the Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill

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Join the Beacon Hill Garden Club on Thursday, May 16 from 9 – 5 for a stroll through the charming streets of Beacon Hill. The Beacon Hill Garden Club is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. The annual tour of the Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill honors a long tradition of urban gardening in Boston. The Club will welcome over 2,500 visitors to the neighborhood. Ticket holders  will enjoy not only our hidden gardens, but also our shops, restaurants and museums. From its first garden tour since the club was founded in 1928, club members have opened their gardens every year on the third Thursday in May, even through the Depression and World War II. They hope you will enjoy the day visiting the nooks, crannies and charming spaces that make Beacon Hill special. Tour proceeds benefit local, state and national horticulture and conservation causes.

Tickets are available online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-tour-of-the-hidden-gardens-of-beacon-hill-tickets-43114965021. $50 – $60, rain or shine, no refunds. Information and Ticket Booth will be located at 70 Charles Street, at the corner of Charles and Mt. Vernon Streets, on the day of the tour.

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Wednesday, May 1, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Hops Gardening

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Learn all about cultivating hops for ornamental, homebrewing, and home remedy usage. Hop Gardening, a class to be held at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, on May 1 from 6 – 9, will introduce the novice and expert to hop planting techniques, the growth cycle, pruning, spacing and support methods, harvesting, drying, and diseases and pests. Take home your very own hop rhizome ready for cultivating.

Samantha Ambrose has been cultivating hops most of her life. Samantha’s grandfather cultivated Noble German hops on an 80 acre farm in Old Chatham, NY. In 2006 Samantha won the Gold Medal for Pale Ale category in the Boston Homebrewers competition using home grown hops. In 2004 Yankee Brew News produced a 7 page spread detailing Samantha’s Lancaster, Massachusetts hop garden. Warm, vibrant and engaging, Samantha is at home on the community theater stage or presenting, facilitating, and mentoring on a variety of gardening topics. $39 for Tower Hill members, $47 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.