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  • Sunday, June 28, 10 – 4 – City Spaces/Country Places

    Tower Hill’s annual tour of exceptional private gardens this year will feature the gardens of Northborough, Massachusetts.  Discover the gardeners’ unique perspectives, and return to your own garden with fresh ideas and inspiration. This special event features lush, meticulously tended gardens in the Northborough area.

    As always, a ticket to “City Spaces/Country Places” includes FREE admission all day to Tower Hill Botanic Garden. As a bonus this year, the Rose Society will present a Rose Show at Tower Hill on the same day as the Garden Tour!

    “City Spaces/Country Places” is an important fund-raiser for the Worcester County Horticultural Society and helps to support the educational programs and the ongoing care and stewardship of the gardens at Tower Hill. You can show your support for the Garden Tour by purchasing a sponsor ticket at $125 or a patron ticket at $75. These tickets help Tower Hill meet its mission and must be purchased in advance. Order tickets in advance: Members $20, Non-Members $25.  Day of tour Members $25, Non-Members $30.  Call 508-869-6111 x 136 to order your tickets, or log on to www.towerhillbg.org and purchase securely on-line.

  • Saturday, June 13, 9:30 – 12:30 – Walk for Open Space

    The Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation, Allston Brighton Green Space Advocates, and Whole Foods are sponsoring a walk in support of the CDC’s open space advocacy work.  Register on line or by telephone by June 12.  Check in begins at 9:30 a.m., and walk begins promptly at 10.  Meet at Brian J. Honan Apartments on Everett Street, just south of the bridge over the Mass. Pike.  The walk is just over two hours, with several stops along the way.  Finish at Christian Herter Park by the Charles River.  Celebrate Allston Brighton’s green spaces and places.  Please contact David at 617-787-3874, ext. 217, or email Holtzman@allstonbrightoncdc.org to register.

  • Tuesday, June 16, 6-9 (Raindate Thursday, June 18)- Summer Solstice Celebration

    Explore a Boston treasure! On the longest day of the year, The Forest Hills Educational Trust invites you to join Trustees and Friends of the Forest Hills Educational Trust for a festive evening of twilight tours, trolley rides, al fresco refreshments and vintage cocktails. See masterpieces of sculpture by Daniel Chester French, visit Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren and poet e.e. Cummings, and view some of the Trust’s innovative contemporary art. Tours will be led by our expert guides Elise Ciregna, Al Maze, Dee Morris, and Trustee Anthony Sammarco; artists Fern Cunningham and Mitch Ryerson will participate in a walk to see their work at Forest Hills.

    Special thanks to Samuel Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain for donating beer to support the event, and to the expert mixologists of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails) for creating vintage cocktails.

    Tickets are $35 and must be purchased in advance. Call 617.524.3354; leave a message with your daytime phone and a representative will call you back for credit card information. Or send an email stating how many tickets and your daytime phone number to: tickets@foresthillstrust.org. Do not email your credit card information.

  • Saturday, June 13, 10 – 3 – Northern Lighthouse Tour

    The Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands are sponsoring a Northern Lighthouse Tour on Saturday, June 13, from 10 – 3.  The Tour will depart from Boston Harbor Cruises’ headquarters at Long Wharf, Boston.  Cost: Adult $68.25, Senior (65+) $63.00, FBHI member $57.75, Child under 12 $57.75.  Ticket price includes 5% City of Boston sightseeing surcharge.  Buy tickets direct from FBHI to support its programs.  The tour will pass the Lights of Boston Harbor, then cruise north for close-up views of the lighthouses at Hospital Point, Fort Pickering, Ten Pound Island, Marblehead, Gloucester Breakwater, Eastern Point and Baker’s Island.  The Twin lights on Thacher Island will be the farthest destination.  On the way back, view Boston Light and Graves Light.  Extensive narration throughout.  Snack bar on board.  Be prepared for changeable weather.  Route always at Captain’s discretion.  For more information, log on to www.fbhi.org, email info@fbhi.org, or call 781-740-4290.  To book tickets in advance, send your check and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to FBHI, 349 Lincoln Street, Building 45, Hingham, MA 02043-1601.

  • Friday, June 26 – Sunday, June 28 – The 2009 Newport Flower Show – Glorious Green: The Natural Path

    The Newport Flower Show celebrates its 14th year as America’s premier summer flower show.  Glorious Green, The Natural Path, will lead us to discover the extraordinary beauty of nature, as well as how to preserve and protect these treasures.  All proceeds from the Newport Flower Show are dedicated to the ongoing restoration and maintenance of the Preservation Society of Newport County’s 88 acres of gardens and landscapes.  The show will take place at Rosecliff, and the hours are Friday, 10:30 – 5, Saturday and Sunday 9 – 5, with an opening night cocktail party on Friday June 26 from 6 – 9.  Tickets may be purchased on line at www.newportmansions.org.  Don’t miss the Butterfly House, created exclusively for the Show by landscape architect Charles Carberry on the front lawn of Rosecliff.  Walk through a gazebo filled with butterfly-friendly plants and see thousands of indigenous butterflies, including monarchs, swallowtails and painted ladies, making a unique and colorful official entrance to the Newport Flower Show.  Each day of the 2009 Newport Flower Show offers guests opportunities to enjoy judged horticultural specimens and floral designs, special garden exhibitions, free lectures and demonstrations, as well as wonderful shopping experiences in both the Oceanside Boutiques and the new Gardeners’ Marketplace.  Tickets are also available for special luncheons, lectures and workshops.  You’ll find that there are many choices as you select which ticket or package offers you the best opportunity to fully enjoy all the hues of Glorious Green, The Natural Path. Special guests are David Howard, long time Head Gardener to HRH Prince of Wales, and Hitomi Gilliam, internationally renowned floral designer. For more information you may email info@newportmansions.org, or call 401-847-1000.

  • Saturday, June 6, 10 – 2:30 – Cruise to Rainsford Island

    Ride the M/V Culebra to Rainsford Island, nestled between Long and Peddocks islands, on The Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands cruise-expedition on Saturday, June 6.  The boat departs from Rowes Wharf Water Transport, 60 Rowes Wharf, at 10 a.m. and returns at 2 p.m., rain or shine.  Friends volunteers lead guided tours, or you may explore on your own, but be sure to pack a picnic.  There is no food or drink on the boat or on the island.  This trip offers rare access to the 11-acre island. There are ruins left from two centuries of institutional use: quarantine hospital, poorhouse. Space is limited.  Advance paid registration recommended.  Available tickets will be sold from 9 a.m. on a first come, first served basis, cash only.  Adults $28, Seniors $25, Children 4-12 $18, Babies under age 3 free.  For more information, visit www.fbhi.org, email info@fbhi.org, or call 781-740-4290.

  • Wednesday, June 24, 5:30 – 8:00 – 13th Annual Rose Garden Party

    Mrs. Angela Menino and Commissioner Antonia Pollak cordially invite you to the 13th Annual Rose Garden Party to benefit Park ARTS on Wednesday, June 24, from 5:30 – 8:00 at The Rose Garden, Back Bay Fens, Boston.  Garden party attire is enthusiastically encouraged.  Wear a hat to enter the Hats Galore! contest, where judges will choose their favorites in the following categories: Best Garden Party Hat, Most Creative Hat, Most Elegant Hat, and Just for Men Hat.  Individual tickets $125.  To reserve and make credit card payment by telephone, call 617-961-3039, or send a check  made payable to The Fund for Parks & Recreation: Park ARTS, and  mail to the Rose Garden Party Committee c/o Boston Parks and Recreation Department, 1010 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02118.  Parking will be available on Park Drive and Agassiz Drive, and there will be Boston Park Rangers to direct you.

  • Saturday, June 20, 10 – 4 – Pocket Gardens of Historic Charlestown

    Gardens for Charlestown, Inc. presents Pocket Gardens of Historic Charlestown on Saturday, June 20, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Tickets are $15 each.  Pick up tickets and start at the Community Garden at the corner of Main Street and Bunker Hill Street.  For more information contact Pat McSweeney at patmcs@verizon.net. Gardens for Charlestown is a non-profit, all-volunteer garden and greenspace organization established in 1976.  It owns and maintains a 63 plot community garden and supports neighborhood initiatives to reclaim abandoned or neglected public spaces throughout Charlestown.   Log on to www.charlestownonline.net/gardens.htm for updated information.

  • Monday, June 1, 7 – 9 pm – Save the Boston Mounted Park Rangers Horses

    The Emerald Necklace Conservancy announces a night of fun and fundraising to Save the Boston Mounted Park Rangers Horses on Monday, June 1 from 7 – 9 pm.  The Boston Park Ranger Mounted Unit has its own department horses, tack, trailers, and patrol vehicles.  They patrol all nine parks in the Emerald Necklace as well as neighborhood parks and cemeteries.  Over the years, The Boston Park Ranger Mounted Unit has grown into a highly recognized and respected agency in the City of Boston. There will be delicious food and drinks and live music presented by the hot Boston band Felix Brown at Jacob Wirth Restaurant, 31-37 Stuart Street, Boston, between Washington and Tremont Streets.  Saddle up and help the Mounted Park Rangers as a “Mane Supporter” ($1,000), “Chomping at the Bit” ($500), “Hot to Trot” ($250), “In the Saddle” ($100) or “Stirrup Enthusiasm” ($50).  Please rsvp to Susan Knight: sknight@emeraldnecklace.org or call 617-522-2700.  All contributions are tax deductible.  Payments can be made by check or credit card.  Make checks payable to Justine Mee Liff Fund.  Mail to Emerald Necklace Conservancy, 891 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.  RSVP by May 30 – checks only at the door.  Log on to www.emeraldnecklace.org for more information.

  • Friday, May 29, 6-9 – Tiffany Garden Party

    This year, the signature Providence Preservation Society event celebrates its 30th Anniversary in style with a “Tiffany Garden Party” on Friday, May 29 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. in an historic Angell Street house and garden, owned by Brooke and Eugene Lee, adjacent to the Saturday Festival tour neighborhood. Tickets for the Tiffany Garden Party are $100 and must be purchased in advance. Tickets for the Tiffany & Co.  Blue Box Fundraiser are $125. All boxes contain a Tiffany gift, with one special box containing a dazzling quatrefoil diamond key pendant.  For more information, call 401-831-7440 or log on to www.ppsri.org.