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Category: Cape Cod & Islands

  • Wednesday, May 4, 7:00 pm – Pollution Solution: Safeguarding Our Waterways

    A program to be held at the Vineyard Haven Library on Wednesday, May 4, beginning at 7 pm, is a presentation of Tisbury Waterways, Inc.  The illustrated lecture will detail the installation of its bio-swale at the base of Owen Little Way in Vineyard Haven.  Bio-swales, or vegetative buffers, are a natural landscaping way to filter stormwater run-off to prevent pollution of marine environments.  Learn why bio-swales are key pollution fighters in commercial settings or in your own backyard, and how you can “grow” your own rain garden.  If you recently heard Dori Smith speak to the Garden Club of the Back Bay on the subject of rain gardens, this program will interest you.

  • Sundays, April 3 and 10, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Garden Adventurers Lectures

    On Sundays, April 3 and April 10, come to Heritage Museum & Gardens, 67 Grove Street in Sandwich, and travel to exotic gardens vicariously through the exploits of other Garden Adventurers! On April 3, Jonathan Shaw will share his visits to Japan’s most beautiful and unique gardens, including Kenrokuen Garden (The Six Sublimities, pictured below) in Kanazawa and Saihoji (The Temple Moss Garden). Mr. Shaw was formerly Director of the New England Wildflower Society at the Garden in the Woods near Boston, and is the retired President of Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida. He lives in Sandwich, his native town, where he has an extensive garden in the Village that he and Norwegian wife Eugenie maintain. Then on April 10, Linda Calmes Jones, who chairs Heritage’s Board of Trustees, will share her garden travel experience to London’s Chelsea Flower Show (The Great Spring Show) and various English gardens. Join them for both of these inspiring presentations, free with museum admission.  For more information, log on to www.heritagemuseumsandgardens.org, or call 508-888-3300.  Image from www.kanazawa-tourism.com.

  • Sunday, March 13 – Saturday, April 30 – Third Annual Garden Club Sale at Adlumia

    In celebration of daylight savings time, Adlumia at 34 Main Street in Orleans, Massachusetts is springing ahead with its third annual Garden Club Sale, offering all garden club members a 25% discount storewide (excepting furniture and items currently on sale.)  Adlumia offers a collection of products for the home, garden and body from around the world focusing on the use of recycled, organic and sustainable resources. The offer begins Sunday, March 13 and continues through the  month of april to honor National Gardening Month.  New items will trickle in throughout the spring, and all you need to do is mention this offer at checkout.  In March Adlumia is open from 11 – 5, Thursday through Sunday, and in April it resumes daily hours.  The offer is also valid on the website www.adlumia.com (enter GARDEN as the coupon code.)