June 7, 2019 - Boston Flora

Tuesdays, July 16 and 23, 10:30 am – 4:45 pm – Behind Adobe Walls Santa Fe Home & Garden Tours

June 7, 2019 by Boston Flora

The Santa Fe Garden Club celebrates its 80th year hosting Santa Fe’s prestigious Behind Adobe Walls Home and Garden Tours. The 2019 tours will feature the ‘Best of the Best’ and include past favorites. On July 16th and 23rd guests will experience the unique beauty that is so characteristic of Santa Fe on this hostess-guided bus tour while visiting four seldom seen, private homes and gardens on Santa Fe’s oldest home and garden tour. Selected homes will highlight extraordinary art collections, as well as a variety of architectural styles and high desert gardens. New this year, guests will gather at the Eldorado Hotel where they can enjoy an Epicurean Buffet Lunch prior to boarding buses for the tour.

Event proceeds benefit the Santa Fe Garden Club’s community education, beautification, and conservation projects including the Santa Fe Botanical Garden Ojos y Manos Learning Laboratory, and the New Mexico Museum of Art, recipient of the newly re-designed Courtyard Garden, a legacy gift to the Santa Fe community.

Behind Adobe Walls is grateful for support from Santa Fe businesses that have generously donated to underwrite the tours.

Since 1940 guests have enjoyed Santa Fe’s oldest and most prestigious Home & Garden Tour on the 3rd and 4th Tuesday of July. Guests board SFGC hostess-guided buses at noon and visit four unique, seldom-seen private residences each week. Refreshments are served at each delightful garden on the tour. Regrettably, these tours are not ADA accessible. Walking is required. Tickets are fully tax deductible, non-refundable and changes to tour dates are not allowed, but you may transfer a ticket to another person. Guests board buses at Eldorado Hotel, 309 W. San Francisco. City parking lots at corner of W. San Francisco and Sandoval Streets.

10:30 am – 11:45 am Registration
10:30 am to Noon – Lunch – Reservations required
12:00 pm – Guests Board Buses
12:15 pm – 4:45 pm Guided Bus Tour

$85 per person—each tour. New! Epicurean Buffet Lunch: Chilled soup, chicken, shrimp, grilled veggies and beverage. $30 Lunch, tax and tip included

Call 505-216-9153 for tour information
Call 505-995-4561 or 800-955-4455 for hotel reservations.
Mention “Behind Adobe Walls” Group Code 190712GARDEN for July 16 and Group Code 190719GARDEN for July 23

Sunday, June 9, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Paint the Gardens

June 7, 2019 by Boston Flora

Come paint in the gardens of the Stevens-Coolidge Place in North Andover on June 9 from 1 – 3 with everyone’s favorite instructors Ana Smyth and Francisco Colom.

A little creativity and some new-found technique are all you will need to create a beautiful work of art and have lots of fun doing it in this special setting. Smyth and Colom provide expert step-by-step instruction on painting en plein air to all participants, novice and seasoned alike. By the end of Sunday’s class, you will have created a beautiful painting to take home with you, inspired by The Stevens- Coolidge Place and its expansive gardens. Weather permitting the event will be held outside in rotating garden settings. During inclement weather class will be held in the greenhouse or the historic estate on the property. All art supplies, aprons and instruction are provided. You simply have to show up and be ready to paint! This class is suitable for all skills levels and recommended for ages 14 and up. $36 for Trustees members, $45 for nonmembers.

Questions? Contact kbibeau@thetrustees.org or visit our Facebook page for the most up-to-date information: www.facebook.com/stevenscoolidgeplace/

Space is limited. Pre-registration required. Register at http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/northeast/event-43818.html