Join The Trustees on Friday, May 12th for a very special Preview Party for Long Hill’s Annual Plant Sale. Enjoy a cocktail and hors d’oeuvre, and celebrate the Plant Sale’s 31st year with us. During the Preview Party there will be special plants available for purchase, giving all attendees early access to an exclusive selection of rare and unusual perennials from Long Hill’s gardens. And, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in an exciting silent auction with unique prizes that every gardener will love. Long Hill is located at 572 Essex Street in Beverly. $45. Register at https://thetrustees.org/event/83737/
On Saturday look through a wide selection of plants, from old favorites to rare and unusual species grown here at Long Hill.
At 9 am, the Plant Sale will open for a Members-only preview. The general public is welcome from 10 am to 1pm. Members, please bring your membership cards so that your membership status can be easily verified.
We recommend bringing your own wheelbarrows or wagons to transport plants to your vehicle if possible.
Coffee, tea, and a selection of pastries will be available for purchase.
This is a rain or shine event.
Be sure to visit the gardens at Long Hill to check out where your plants originated!
This year, following on from the Gardens Trust’s successful 2022 series on the rose, in partnership with the Historic Roses Group, the Gardens Trust is happy to announce a new rose-related lecture series, again with the HRG, this time including an international slant.
With speakers hailing from Iceland to Australia, via England, Italy and the USA, these talks are wide-ranging. We begin with a portrait of a popular 19th century rosarian who loved riding as much as roses, knew everyone on the literary scene, was a celebrity preacher and organized the first ever National Rose Show in London. An account of a hillside rose garden in Italy which started as a collection of pots on a terrace in Rome; how to grow roses in the Arctic Circle and ‘down under’ on a working Australia farm; the intriguing stories behind the names of some romantic heritage roses; and where to find a unique UN Food and Agriculture Organization collection of the other – edible – members of the rosaceae family continue the series. We finish with practical advice about training and pruning your climbers, whether roses or wisterias, from a professional horticultural gardener, the latest in three generations of market gardeners and a shows organizer and designer whose sumptuous stands have won medals for the Historic Roses Group at the Hampton Court Flower Show.
This ticket costs £28 for the entire course of 7 sessions or you may purchase a ticket for individual sessions, costing £5. Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards. Register through Eventbrite HERE or visit https://thegardenstrust.org/events-archive/page/3/
The fifth in the series is What’s in a Name? with Darrell Schramm. If you’ve ever wondered how or why an historic/heritage rose obtained its name, you may be interested in this talk. Who or what was the original inspiration for these often tantalising names? Were the roses named for celebrities of the past, for particular places or famous events, or for people who were linked personally to the rose breeder? More prosaically, did hard-nosed business play a starring role? If so, did this do the trick and help bring profit for the breeder and lasting fame for the person, place or event – or for the rose? Darrell Schramm will briefly discuss the background or history behind about four dozen old garden roses, and show you beautiful images of them, too. It will be a virtual story time. Pour yourself a cup of tea – or maybe something stronger – and be prepared to be enlightened, amused and entertained.
A teacher and professor for about 45 years, Darrell Schramm taught literature, English composition, poetry, editing, and rhetoric, and is now retired from University of San Francisco. He was born in North Dakota, and has also lived in Colombia, Portugal, and Spain. His publications include a book of poetry andRainbow: A History of the Rose in California(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017), as well as poetry in more than 100 poetry publications, plus articles in various academic magazines and journals. He is currently editor of Rose Letter for The Heritage Roses Group and of The Vintage Rose for The Friends of Vintage Roses, and American Rose Society Chair for Heritage Rose Preservation, as well as a member of the Historic Rose Group and a regular contributor to the Historic Rose Journal.
