Daily Archives: September 18, 2022

Saturday, September 24, & Sunday, September 25, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Goddess Harvest Festival

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Join in the fun as The Massachusetts Horticultural Society celebrates the three Roman goddesses that grace the Garden. They were originally installed on the façade of the 2nd Horticulture Hall in Boston. In 2020 these goddesses received a much needed cleaning and restoration. The tallest statue, standing at 13 feet tall, is Ceres—the goddess of agriculture. To her right is Pomona—goddess of fruit—holding a cornucopia full of fruits. On the left side stands Flora—the goddess of flowers—with a bouquet of flowers in her hand. This weekend we’ll be celebrating the harvest of the Garden with crafts, food tastings, games, and more!

Dress like a goddess and receive free admission to the Garden at Elm Bank. For more information visit www.masshort.org

Saturday, September 24, 10:00 am – 3:30 pm – Identifying Invasive Plants in the Landscape

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This September 24 Berkshire Botanical Garden class will focus on the identification features, ecological impacts and population trends of many of the invasive trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants that grow in forests, fields and wetlands in Berkshire County. The class will include a morning presentation and an afternoon in the field investigating invasives in a variety of habitats. We will look at both widespread and less common species of invasives.

Ted Elliman worked for many years for Native Plant Trust as a staff botanist, invasive species program manager and as an instructor of botany, ecology and conservation. His book, The Wildflowers of New England, an identification guide to much of the region’s native flora, was published in 2016 by Timber Press. In the 1980s, Ted started and directed an environmental education and wilderness adventure center in the Berkshires. Since the mid-1990s, he periodically has led natural history tours to southwest China, where he worked for two years as a teacher and forest ecologist.

Saturday, October 1, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Unearthing the Secret Garden

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic The Secret Garden has inspired generations of readers to cultivate their own bits of earth. Author Marta McDowell still remembers the thrill of reading about Mary Lennox turning the key in the door to the locked garden for the first time. This engaging and illustrated lecture on October 1 at 10 at Hollister House Garden in Washington, Connecticut explores Burnett’s life, work, and the passion for flowers and gardening that inspired her book.

Marta McDowell teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden and consults for private clients and public gardens. Her latest book is Unearthing The Secret Garden, about the inspiration for the classic children’s book. Timber Press also published Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, New York Times-bestselling All the Presidents’ Gardens, and Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, now in its seventh printing. Marta’s new book about garden themes in murder mysteries, is due out from Timber Press in 2023. She was the 2019 recipient of the Garden Club of America’s Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for outstanding literary achievement.

Advance reservation is suggested. Hollister House will follow all state and local guidelines for Covid-19 at our events.

HHG members $25 Non-members $35 Register HERE.