Boston Flora

Category: Exhibit

  • Friday, September 27 – Sunday, September 29 – The 2024 Bristol Mum Festival

    The Chrysanthemum symbolizes Friendship, Happiness, and Well-being… The Clock symbolizes this Time Honored Event, and taking time to appreciate those three ideals and the Love of our community of All Heart…” The Mum Festival is Produced & Directed by the Bristol Exchange Club. The Festival begins Friday, September 27 from 5 – 9, and continues Saturday from noon to 9:00 pm, and Sunday noon to six pm. Bristol is a two hour drive from Boston. For more information visit https://bristolmumfestival.com/

  • Saturday, September 14, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – 18th Annual Cactus and Succulent Festival

    The Cactus and Succulent Society of Massachusetts will present its 18th Annual Cactus and Succulent Festival on Norfolk Town Common and also in the Norfolk Library, 2 Liberty Lane, Norfolk, on September 14. The Festival is open on Saturday from 9 – 4. Admission is free. The first 50 attendees each day will receive a free cactus or succulent plant. See hundreds of striking cacti and succulents. Often referred to as living sculptures, cacti and succulents are exotic plants. For more information visit https://cssma.org/

  • Thursday, September 19 – Sunday, September 22 – Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival

    Explore the infinite variety of wines and cocktails and satisfy your palate at the annual Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival! The four-day weekend, September 19 – 22, will include a lavish Connoisseur’s Dinner, Vintner’s Dinner, an elegant Sunday Festival Jazz Brunch, and a series of 18 seminars featuring wines and other libations from around the world.

    After each seminar, guests will be invited to spend some time in the VIP Tasting Tent for additional wine and food samples. This year the event will take place both at Rosecliff and at The Elms.

    Your festival attendance directly supports The Preservation Society of Newport County’s work to showcase the historical and architectural treasures of Newport County and preserve this rich heritage for future generations.

    • Seminar ticket holders will have one-hour access to the VIP Tasting Tent on the front lawn at Rosecliff, courtesy of Presenting Sponsor, JP Morgan, and expanded culinary samples will be offered.
    • Seminar guests will be issued a wristband for entry to the VIP Tasting Tent.
    • Tickets to all Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival events are sold separately.
    • Free parking at Rosecliff.
    • All attendees must be 21 or older. No children or infants are permitted.
    • Tickets are non-refundable.

    For complete information visit https://www.newportmansions.org/events/newport-mansions-wine-food-festival-2024/

  • Saturday & Sunday, August 31 – September 1, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Fine Wood Show

    Each summer, the Berkshire Botanical Garden hosts the Berkshire Woodworkers Guild Fine Wood Show and Silent Auction, when Guild members exhibit and sell unique, hand-made products ranging from furniture to musical instruments. Guild members also provide ongoing demonstrations. The Garden is located at 5 West Stockbridge Road in Stockbridge, and the dates this year are August 31 – September 1 from 9 – 5. $5 admission for the general public and $3 for BBG members. Sean Stanton from North Plain Farm, Great Barrington, Mass., will be onsite Saturday and Sunday offering farm-raised pork sausages and beef hotdogs. Pleasant & Main in Housatonic, Mass., will be onsite both days as well with their signature coffee drinks, baked treats and savory breakfast crepes.For more information visit www.berkshirebotanical.org.

  • Friday, September 6 – Deadline: Call for Art – New England Pollinators

    The Massachusetts Pollinator Network works to protect pollinators and their habitat across the state. See the poster below and enter high quality images of your artwork (all mediums considered) by September 6. For more information email tillartwave@tillinc.org.

  • Saturday, August 17, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Wampanoag Heritage Day

    Join Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich for the fourth annual celebration of Wampanoag culture at Heritage from 10 am-2 pm on August 17. This fun-filled day will feature a performance by the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers of Eastern social songs and dances (with audience participation encouraged!) from 11-11:45 am and hands-on activities. Explore the wetu, a reproduction of a historic dwelling, the mush8n, a reproduction dug-out canoe, and the Three Sisters demonstration garden, all created in collaboration with SmokeSygnals, a local Native American creative agency.

    All activities are free with museum admission or membership. This event is rain or shine.

    Tickets include admission to:

    • The gardens, featuring collections of rhododendrons, hydrangeas, daylilies, and more (seasonal)
    • The Hidden Hollow outdoor discovery area
    • The Special Exhibitions Gallery, featuring the Impressionist New England: Four Seasons of Color and Light exhibit
    • The J.K. Lilly III Automobile Gallery, featuring the From Carriage to Classic: How Automobiles Transformed America and Charging Ahead: Early Electric Cars in America exhibits
    • The American Art & Carousel Gallery, featuring the Heritage Highlights exhibit and rides on the 1908 Looff carousel
    • The outdoor art exhibit Alfred Glover in the Garden
    • Wampanoag wetu, Three Sisters Garden, and mush8n
    • Outdoor features such as the McGraw Family Garden of the Senses, the Flume Fountain, the Hart Family Maze Garden, the labyrinth, walking trails, and more
    • Lilly’s Café
    • The Shop at Heritage in its new temporary locatiom

  • Through Sunday, October 27, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – The Importance of Being Furnished

    Historic New England has mounted an exhibit at The Eustis Estate in Milton, Massachusetts. The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home explores the evolution of American interior design by spotlighting four historic homes – Beauport-Sleeper-McCann House, Codman Estate, Gibson House, Pendleton House – and their creators.

    The exhibition examines the roles Ogden Codman Jr., Charles Hammond Gibson, Charles Leonard Pendleton, and Henry Davis Sleeper played in early twentieth-century preservation and interior design, highlighting an extraordinary range of furnishings, design work, and personal artifacts drawn from their homes.

    The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home is on view until October 27, 2024 at the Eustis Estate in Milton, Mass. The Eustis Estate is open from Friday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

    Click here to learn more about The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home. 

  • Thursday, August 15 – Tuesday, October 15 – Seasons of Change: Photography Above the Garden

    Photographer John Rich spent the last year visiting New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill and capturing the Climate Garden and the Garden of Inspiration from a truly unique vantage point: from above. The result is a collection of photographs that offers a rare aerial view of the Garden, highlighting seasonal transformations and shifting daylight. Each photograph displayed in this exhibition preserves an instant in time, enabling the viewer to glimpse the Garden’s cyclical changes, from moments of bloom and growth to decay and rest.

    Experience the natural beauty of the Garden from a whole new perspective. Seasons of Change will be on display in the Milton Gallery from August 15 to October 15. This exhibit promises to be a visual treat for anyone who appreciates nature’s beauty and the art of photography.

    This exhibit is included with General Admission. We recommend purchasing your tickets online in advance to secure your preferred date. You can also buy tickets in person at the Garden.

  • Thursday – Sunday, August 15 – 18 – Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Fair

    No better way to spend a day – visit the Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Livestock Show & Fair, beginning Thursday, August 15 at 4 pm, and running through Sunday, August 18 at 10:00 pm. The event takes place at 35 Panhandle Road in West Tisbury. For complete information, visit https://marthasvineyardagriculturalsociety.org/the-fair

  • Wednesday, August 15, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm, & Saturday, August 17, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Going to Ground

    This coming August marks the installation of artist LaRissa Rogers’ “Going to Ground” – a site specific sculpture on The Rose Kennedy Greenway exploring the life of Zipporah Potter Atkins, the first-known Black woman to own a home in Boston in 1670. Potter Atkins’ home rested on land now cared for by The Greenway in the North End, which was brought to light by Dr. Vivian Johnson, Professor Emerita of Boston University, after 6 years of archival research.

    Throughout the month of August, The Conservancy will be offering a series of events to engage with this piece: On Thursday, August 15th, from 5-8pm, and Saturday, August 17th, from 2-5pm, The Greenway is hosting two adobe brick-making workshops with artist LaRissa Rogers. Come get your hands in the soil, and help us craft adobe bricks which will be used in the activation of the public sculpture. On Thursday, August 22nd, from 4-7pm, drop by The Greenway during a durational performance by artists LaRissa Rogers (@larissa_rogers) and Zalika Azim (@26thletter) working together with collaborators – including their moms, aunts, sisters, and several Boston-based artists – to lay adobe soil bricks on-site for the foundation of the sculpture. On Saturday, August 24th, from 4pm-7pm, join us for a communal meal and party produced by SIDE Presents (@sidepresents) honoring Dr. Vivian Johnson and celebrating the installation of the sculpture.