Christopher S. Reece and Martha R. Pappas invite you to an Evening to Support the Children’s Garden at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, with cocktails, tapas, and a presentation with designer Gary Smith, on Wednesday, June 20, beginning at 6 pm. Individual tickets are $45, sponsor tickets are $75. You may purchase tickets by calling 508-869-6111, ext. 136, or by visiting www.towerhillbg.org. The evening is generously supported by Tasting’s Caterers.
Take a tour of eight, private Roslindale gardens and the Southwest Boston Community Garden on Saturday, June 23, 2012 —- 11 AM – 4 PM.
Tickets: $15 before June 17, $20 week of event. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit www.roslindalegreenandclean.org. Tickets may be also be purchased in person at Joanne Rossman, 6 Birch Street, Roslindale Village (cash or check only) and at the Roslindale Farmers’ Market on June 2, 9, 16, and 23.
Presented by Roslindale Green & Clean. Primary Garden Tour Sponsor: Christie Dustman & Company, Inc. Other sponsors include: Jon Goodhue Design; Sacred Heart Parish; Birch Street House and Garden; Joanne Rossman; Linda Burnett, Realtor; Roche Bros; and The Cooperative Bank. Live music in designated gardens by The Boston Public Quartet, The Spruce & Maple Jazz Quartet, and The Tuesdays. Hanging Garden quilt raffle to benefit Roslindale Green & Clean.
Last chance! The Garden Club of the Back Bay invites you to our annual Twilight Garden Party on Tuesday, June 5, from 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm in the historic New England College of Optometry, 420 Beacon Street in Boston. Enjoy live music, an open bar, and sumptuous hors d’oeuvre, all benefiting the street trees of the Back Bay and other neighborhood and city-wide groups with hands-on assistance, educational programs and grants to help them maintain their gardens and trees. We will also be presenting the 2012 Magnolia Award to the New England Historic Genealogical Society for its beautiful new garden on Newbury Street, pictured below. You may purchase tickets here on line by clicking https://bostonflora.com/twilight-garden-party/ and your names will be held at the door.
The 7th annual Antiques at Elm Bank event is slated for Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10. More than 100 quality dealers will be on hand, featuring hundreds of sought after items at Greater Boston’s most magnificent outdoor summer antiques show.
Antiques from the 18th century to the mid-20th century will be available, including Federalist and Victorian furniture, European and Asian ceramics, china, sterling silver, art, estate jewelry, antique toys and much more. Everyone from the casual collector to the experienced investor will be able to find that precious treasure they have been searching for.
New to the show this year is an “Antiques Are Green” Children’s Festival of activities that is fun for the whole family. Dino the Dinosaur, symbol of the festival, reminds visitors that antiques are green, yet much newer than he is. On Sunday June 10 from 11am-1pm, entertainers will emphasize the theme of the event – namely that antiques are part of our past and part of our future. And, unlike dinosaurs that live on only in our imagination, antiques continue to provide function and enjoyment for years to come.
Want to know what your own attic finds and family heirlooms are worth? Paul Royka, who has appeared as an appraiser on Antiques Road Show and is an acclaimed art and antiques expert, will tell you how much your often overlooked treasures are worth. The $5 fee per item benefits the Massachusetts Horticultural Library. Appraisal hours are 10-3pm on Saturday and 11-2pm Sunday. For more information call (781) 862-4039 or visit www.NEAntiqueShows.com. Free parking is available.
The 5th annual Strawberry Dessert Festival will be held from June 1 – July 1 at 40+ area restaurants around Boston, featuring special strawberry desserts. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Mass Farmers Markets. Desserts being offered range from strawberry shortcake to a strawberry rhubarb float at Upstairs on the Square to a roasted homemade strawberry ice cream sandwich at Ashmont Grill. Full listing of restaurant participants at www.strawberrydessertfestival.org.
For more information, call Mass Farmers Markets at 781-893-8222. Strawberry tart photo courtesy of Southern Living Magazine.
Join The Newport Preservation Society for Tapas and Tango at the Opening Night Party for the 2012 Newport Flower Show on Friday, June 22, from 6 – 9 on the lawn at Rosecliff in Newport. You’ll definitely want to be a part of this much-anticipated festive event that kicks off the Newport summer season! Enjoy the exciting cocktail buffet while perusing the fresh floral arrangements and horticultural extravaganzas, and shopping the Oceanside Boutiques and Gardeners Marketplace. Special entertainment and plenty of surprises await you as well! $150 per person, available on line at www.newportmansions.org.
The Annual Meeting of The Garden Club of the Back Bay, Inc. took place Monday, May 14, and $66,000 in grants and expenditures were unanimously approved by the membership. Co-President Jackie Blombach is pictured below announcing the grants to the attendees.
Thirty thousand dollars has been set aside for street tree care, including planting, pruning, and inoculating. In addition to this amount, the following organizations will benefit from our Club’s fund raising successes, including our holiday wreath project and our upcoming Twilight Garden Party:
$5,000 to The Friends of Copley Square, for treating with fertilizer and fungicide the diseased trees (the ones not being removed) for root stress due to canker stain and compacted ground conditions.
$5,000 to The Friends of the Public Garden, to continue the inoculation of elms against Dutch elm disease. The street trees to be treated are not on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, but are located on Commonwealth Avenue beyond Massachusetts Avenue.
$5,000 to The Esplanade Association, for the Eliot Memorial Demonstration Garden.
$5,000 to the Commonwealth Avenue Mall Committee, for its Historic Elm Preservation Project.
$3,000 to the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, to help pay for plant material for the completion of Mother’s Rest, at Boylston Street and The Fenway.
$3,000 to City Roots/Urban Ecology Institute, for plant materials (trees and shrubs) for a project underway in Allston/Brighton, which also includes a citizen science and education component.
$3,000 to the Boston Nature Center of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, supporting some level of scholarships to twenty children for the summer camp. The children range in age from 5 to 14 and are from the local neighborhoods of Mattapan, Roslindale, and Jamaica Plain.
$2,000 to the Charles River Clean Up Boat, helping keep our beloved river trash free.
$500 to the Ellis Neighborhood Association, to inoculate an historic elm tree in the South End against Dutch elm disease. This contribution will cover half the expense of the treatment, with the other half being paid by the Ellis Neighborhood Association.
$500 to The Blossom Fund of The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America, for our five year fund raising effort to be awarded next year to a project in or around The Rose Kennedy Greenway.
Additionally, we are purchasing four tree fences to be installed in the neighborhood, three in front of The First Lutheran Church on Berkeley Street, and one in front of The French Cultural Center of Boston, on Marlborough Street, at a total cost of $4,000.
We congratulate all our grant recipients, and thank our supporters for giving us the ability to beautify Boston.
CupcakeCamp is an ad hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and eat cupcakes in an open environment. Learn more about CupcakeCamps around the globe at www.cupcakecamp.org. This year the Boston-area event will take place Monday, May 21 from 6 – 9 at The Center for the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Avenue in Somerville. Purchase your VIP Tickets on line. In past years, if you wanted first pick at the cupcakes, you had to arrive extra early and wait in line. This year, we’re doing things differently. Purchasing a VIP ticket ahead of time will allow you early entry, and the awesome privilege of skipping the line. You’ll have exclusive access to the cupcakes plus some sweet swag from our awesome sponsors, Whole Foods Market and The Great Boston Cupcake Crawl. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit local hunger relief organization, Lovin’ Spoonfuls. Come eat cupcakes and support a great cause!
Learn more and purchase your tickets at http://cupcakecampbos.eventbrite.com
The Beatrix Farrand Garden Association is sponsoring a “Folk to Fork” Garden Party and concert to benefit gardening teens on Sunday, April 29, from 1 – 3, rain or shine, at the Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield, 4097 Albany Post Road in Hyde Park, New York. Enjoy local foods, The Bandana Splits (a retro style female vocal group), singer-songwriter Benji Cossa, and a Garden Boutique by the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Historical Association. Tickets must be purchased in advance and are available at http://beatrixfarrandgarden.org/events.html. You may also call 845-554-7482 for more information. The mission of the Beatrix Farrand Garden Association is to preserve the Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield and to educate the public about Farrand’s important design legacy. This event supports a series of garden workshops at the Farrand Garden for the Green Teen Community Garden Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Dutchess County. It’s a bit of a hike for us Bostonians, but if you’re in the area, try to attend.
The Berkshire Botanical Garden opens its 2012 season with Gimme Shelter: Architects Design for Shade — an exhibition of four distinctly unique shelters on display through October. We welcome to the Garden four design groups: New England Modern & Co, Crisp Architects, Burr & McCallum Architects and Kristine Sprague.
Revisiting high design in small spaces comes on the heels of last year’s popular tree house exhibition and the 2010 “Shed Showâ€â€” both featured in national media and viewed by thousands of visitors. This year, architects provide Garden visitors with shelters from the sun as part of the 2012 theme, Garden on Fire! BBG member price for the opening reception on Saturday, April 28, from 5 – 7 is $25, nonmembers $30. Register on line at www.berkshirebotanical.org.
