Daily Archives: January 21, 2023

Tuesday, January 24, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Tree Equity in Boston: What It Is and How to Grow It, Live and Livestreamed

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The City of Boston recently released a new Urban Forest Plan that aims to grow the city’s urban forest equitably. In this hybrid talk on January 24 co-sponsored by the Brighton Garden Club and the Friends of Faneuil Library, David Meshoulam, Executive Director of Speak for the Trees, Boston, will introduce the idea of tree equity and discuss its critical importance in a rapidly changing climate. The organization has been examining how the distribution of trees has been shaped by race, politics, and history, and works to grow the city’s forest as a tool to build resilient communities.

The live presentation will be held in the New Balance Room, Presentation School Foundation Community Center, 640 Washington Street in Boston. This is a free event.

This event will also be livestreamed to YouTube. To sign up for livestream, click HERE

Monday, May 29 – Saturday, June 3 – Gardens of the Cotswolds

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This spring join the Royal Oak Foundation for a special garden tour in the Cotswolds. Dream of the English countryside, with gently rolling hills and picture-perfect traditional villages and you may well have a vision of the Cotswolds. Close to London and Oxford, yet still unspoiled, this sought-after area with its gorgeous gardens and royal connections is our destination for spring 2023.

Staying at a luxurious historic inn in the charming village of Broadway, we will be shown famous and influential gardens such as Hidcote, now in the care of the National Trust and neighboring Kiftsgate, with its monumental rambling rose. We will also have special access to a number of secret private gardens where owners have created their own horticultural paradise.

We can compare the design and planting of Tudor knot gardens, cottage gardens, organic gardens and walled gardens and admire features from romantic temples and grottoes to imaginative topiary and striking contemporary sculpture. A crowning highlight, subject to confirmation, will be a visit to Highgrove, the garden of His Majesty The King, a pioneer of organic gardening.

Your tour will be accompanied by art historian and garden lover Rosalind Malandrinos who lives in the Cotswolds and is a guide at Sudeley Castle. For brochure and more information, visit HERE. The sign up deadline is January 27!

Kiftsgate