Boston Flora

Category: Maine

  • Saturday, July 21, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm – Historic Houses and Gardens in South Berwick, Maine

    Massachusetts Horticultural staff members April Daley and Maureen Horn are hosting a bus trip on Saturday, July 21, to South Berwick, Maine, where travelers will receive private group tours of two properties owned by Historic New England. The first is the 1785 Georgian mansion, Hamilton House, a National Historic Landmark, built on a bluff overlooking the Salmon Falls River and surrounded by classic gardens.

    The featured visit is to the Sarah Orne Jewett House, first owned by her family in 1819, on a festive day when the public is being invited especially into its herb gardens. Nancy Wetzel, the House’s Landscape historian, will speak to the group from Mass Hort on the historic importance of herbs and of community herbalists, as seen through the lens of The Country of the Pointed Firs and Mrs. Todd, the novel’s herb practitioner. Afterwards, she will guide us through the garden to provide a sensory experience of the herbs described by Jewett.

    Between house visits, we will stop in Kittery, Maine so that travelers can choose a place to enjoy lunch from a large array of restaurants.

    The tour will start at 9:00 in the Target parking lot on Route 30 in Framingham and return there at 8:00 p. m.

    If you have questions about the tour please contact the librarian, Maureen Horn, at 617-933-4912 or MHorn@Masshort.org. The cost is $110 for Mass Hort members and $130 for non-members.

    Registration will be complete only by an online reservation or check payable to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society by July 2.. Please mail your check to the attention of Maureen Horn at 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02482.

    Note: If there are fewer than 20 registrants by July 3 the tour will be cancelled.

  • Wednesday, July 4 – Monday, July 9 – Thirtieth Perennial Plant Symposium

    The yearly Perennial Plant Symposium is the only annual symposium devoted entirely to perennials. It is also the oldest with the first symposium presented in 1983. The location changes each year. Enjoy learning about and observing perennials, gardens, and production facilities all across the USA and Canada. This summer the annual meeting of the Perennial Plant Association takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference includes optional tours before and after the symposium, trips to public and private gardens, a trade show, and retail, grower, or designer’s talks and tours. Selected highlights include:

    July 4th: Optional walking horticultural tour of Boston, historical tour by bus of Boston, Lexington and Concord,  and fireworks cruise

    July 5th: Public Day Seminar Speakers

    Julie Merservy:  Home Outside – Creating the Landscape You Love

    Debra Knape: Good Enough To Eat – Designing Edible Landscapes

    David Culp:  Best of Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

    Adrian Bloom:   Bloom’s Best Perennials and Grasses

    Roger Swain: Ace of Shovels: Finding the Perfect Garden Tool

    Laura Deeter: Bringing Your Perennials Up Right

    July 6th: Eleven fascinating presentations featuring growers, landscape designers, and retailers, plus Keynote by Julie Merservy:  Hearing the Stream With Open Eyes – The Evolution of a Designer

    July 7th: Morning Bench to Border Tours of Cavicchio Greenhouses, Stonegate Gardens, Russell’s Garden Center, Garden in the Woods, Weston Nursery, and Tower Hill Botanic Garden.

    Afternoon Divine by Design Garden Tours of four private gardens, Elm Bank (Massachusetts Horticultural Society), Weston Nursery, and Tower Hill Botanic Garden.

    July 8th – Trade Show and Sixteen Lectures on topics ranging from Biological Controls to New and Upcoming Coreopsis Cultivars to Container Gardening.

    July 9 – Optional Tour to garden centers and Newport gardens

    July 10 – Option Tour:  Journey to the Edge!  The Maine Event.  Visit five wholesale and retail growers in New Hampshire and Maine, and experience a lobster bake at the Coastal Maine Botanic Garden.

     

    Lectures, reception and the trade show will take place at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 50 Park Plaza at Arlington Street. The room rate is: $129 for Single or $129 for Double.  Non Perennial Plant Association members are invited to register for the entire conference at non-member rates, or just for the public day on July 5th.  Registration information will be available at www.perennialplant.org.  This is a fabulous opportunity for our Boston area gardening community to participate in one of the nation’s premier horticultural events.

     

  • Thursday, December 1 – Saturday, December 3, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Boothbay Region Garden Club 9th Annual Festival of Trees

    The Boothbay Region Garden Club’s 9th Annual Festival of Trees will take place at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, 86 Townsend Avenue, from December 1 – December 3, 10 am – 5 pm. “All That Glitters” with over sixty decorated trees and other donated items to be auctioned, raffles of two trees and a visit from Father Christmas.  Holiday Shops include: Trinkets and Treasures, Decor Galore, Artists Among Us, Sweets and Savories, The Stitchery, Wreath Emporium, Nature’s Gift Corner, and also Sunday Morning Refreshments.  Visit www.boothbayregiongardenclub.org for complete details.

  • Wednesday, August 17, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm – Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and More

    Enjoy the glories of two coastal Maine gardens – one a renowned Botanical Garden and the other a stunning private garden on the coast nearby. On Wednesday, August 17, from 9 – 3, Plant and Garden Curator Bill Cullina welcomes New England Wild Flower Society members and friends to the magnificent Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, officially opened in 2007, but already making a name for itself nationally with the newly installed two-acre Children’s Garden, the Garden of the Five Senses, multiple ornamental displays, an area of native Maine plantings, fairy villages, waterfalls — all surrounded by exceptional natural beauty and incomparable stonework and sculpture. After an orientation from Bill, you tour the Gardens with a docent and then enjoy lunch at the Kitchen Garden Café.

    After lunch and time to explore on your own, you drive a short distance along the coast to Frogs Leap, where owner Ellie Freeman shares her exuberant plantings inspired by art and literature, creating a wonderful expression of horticultural form and color. The garden includes a blend of classic Maine perennials with modern varieties and native plants. A human-sized frog sculpture contemplates a water garden where real frogs bask on lily pads. We explore this rocky coastal site, now transformed with a hillside stroll garden, game lawn, vegetable and cutting garden, chess lawn, lily pond, moss walk, dry-stone Asian-style contemplative garden, and 150-foot long borders ablaze with late summer bloom.

    Cost: $89 (includes cost of tour and lunch) (Member) / $104 (Non-Member. Register at www.newfs.org.

  • Saturday, July 16, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Spectacular Gardens of Scarborough Tour

    The Scarborough Garden Club announces its Spectacular Gardens of Scarborough Tour, to be held Saturday, July 16, from 9 – 4, rain or shine.  Advance tickets are $15, or $20 day of tour. Call 207-839-4033 for more information, or log on to their website:  http://home.roadrunner.com/~garden/ or e-mail Barbara at gardenz@maine.rr.com. There are 10 gardens this year, none of them have been on previous tours and 6 of them are in one neighborhood in which you can park and walk. Picture below courtesy of Gnome Landscapes.

  • Sunday, July 17, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Bar Harbor Garden Club Garden Tour

    The Bar Harbor Garden Club will host a garden tour on Sunday, July 17, from 10 – 4, beginning on Route 3 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Proceeds go toward club supported causes, such as Beatrix Farrand Society, Butterfly Park, Jr. Enrichment Programs, Student Conservation Camp, Scholarships, Student Conservation Association, civic plantings, Mt Desert Island Land and Garden Preserve and Wild Gardens of Acadia. Tickets are $20 each, and you may obtain additional information at www.barharborgardenclub.com, or by telephoning 207-288-9689. Bar Harbor garden image below from www.gardendesignonline.com.

  • Saturday, July 16, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Private Gardens of the Kennebunks

    The Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County and 10 private homeowners are pleased to announce the 17th Annual “Private Gardens of the Kennebunks” Garden Tour Saturday, July 16th, 2011.  This self-guided tour features 10 unique private home gardens in Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Cape Porpoise area. View the gardens at your own pace, in any order you choose. This tour allows participants to gather landscaping ideas and view perennial and annual plants that may enhance their own gardens.
    The gardens are open from 10am to 4pm on July 16th and will be held rain or shine. Participants are provided with a brochure describing all the gardens and a map that provides the driving directions to each garden. You determine how long you linger at the garden and in what order you visit the gardens. Refreshments will be provided by Lucas on 9 at 62 Mills Road, (Rte 9) in Cape Porpoise.

     

    As a special feature, Honorary Chair, Paul Parent, host of the popular Sunday morning syndicated radio show “The Paul Parent Garden Club” will spend the day at Lucas On 9, sharing his knowledge and gardening tips, as well as answering questions on gardening in New England.  All proceeds from the tour will benefit the prevention programs of the Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County. The Child Abuse Prevention Council’s programs consistently endeavor to educate and support children and their families, professionals that work with children, and the surrounding community. Central to their mission is the promotion of healthy, nurturing relationships between children and adults. This is achieved through education, collaboration and advocacy in established programs and events which foster the well-being of children and families throughout York County.
    Advance Tickets are $15; after July 1 $20. Tickets may be purchased at Focal Point Gardens, 1029 Alfred Rd. (Rt 111), Arundel or by calling the Council office (207) 985-5975, email events@kidsfreetogrow.org or visit  www.kidsfreetogrow.org. Tickets purchased prior to the tour must be exchanged for a map and brochure containing the garden locations the day of the tour or, brochures and maps can be purchased the day of the tour in the parking lot behind Marlows on Main Street in Kennebunk, at Kennebunk High School on Fletcher Street in Kennebunk; Blooms & Heirlooms on Route 1 north in Kennebunk and Carrots & Company Ocean Ave in Kennebunkport. This tour would not be possible without the support of the following sponsors: – Focal Point Gardens, Genest Concrete Works, Inc., Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution, Sold on Betsy and Jim Group at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and Woods Farm Landscaping.

  • Monday, July 11, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Paris Hill Home and Garden Tour

    Come to beautiful Paris Hill, Maine on Monday, July 11, from 10 – 4,  and tour a series of historic, delightful homes and gardens. Many homes are architectural gems with histories going back to the earliest days of Oxford County. All are beautiful and lovingly cared for. Tour homes are within easy walking distance of one another. Cost: $20. Contact Janet Brogan at janetbrogan@roadrunner.com or call  (207) 743-6862 for additional information.

  • Wednesdays, June 8 through October 26, 10:30 am – 12:00 noon – Farmers’ Market Tour and Cooking Class

    Stonewall Kitchen will host Farmers’ Market Tours and Cooking Classes on Wednesdays, starting June 8, through Portland, Maine’s Monument Square.  Travel and Leisure Magazine has crowned Monument Square one of the top ten Farmers’ Markets in the country.  The educational walking tour will focus on Maine’s agriculture, and a cooking class at Stonewall Kitchen, featuring freshly picked produce and other native foods, will follow the tour.  For more information, call 207-879-2409, or log on to www.stonewallkitchen.com or www.MaineFoodieTours.com.

  • Friday through Sunday, May 13 – May 15 – Northern New England Home, Garden & Flower Show

    The 10 Annual Northern New England Home, Garden and Flower Show returns to the Fryeburg Fairgrounds in Fryeburg, Maine May 13, 14 & 15, 2011. Show hours are 11 – 6 on Friday, 10 – 6 on Saturday, and 10 – 5 on Sunday. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 children six to sixteen, under six years old free. For complete information log on to www.homegardenflowershow.com.