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  • Saturday, June 11, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – The 23rd Annual Northampton Garden Tour

    Come visit eight delightful gardens on display Saturday, June 11 from 10 – 3, rain or shine, for the 2016 Northampton Garden Tour, a fundraiser for the Friends of Forbes Library, Inc. The Garden Tour is intended to inspire and educate everyday gardeners with plantings in a variety of appealing and unique landscaping styles and creative use of hardscape. At each garden, there are descriptions of the plantings and garden guides are on hand to answer questions. Tickets come with directions to this self-guided tour of gardens within easy driving distance of the library. The terrain of this year’s tour broadly circles Northampton, making gardens accessible by car and a pleasant bicycle ride for the recreational peddler comfortable with 20+ miles.

    Tickets for the Tour are $15 in advance at Forbes Library, Bay State Perennial Farm, Cooper’s Corner, Hadley Garden Center, North Country Landscapes and State Street Fruit Store. And $20 on the day of the tour at the library only.

    The Friends of Forbes Library, Inc. Northampton Garden Tour also includes a raffle – Win organic compost, gift certificates, garden supplies, a landscape consultation and more. Raffle tickets are 2/$5 or 5/$10 and are available at Forbes Library through the day before the tour as well as at one of the gardens on the day of the tour.

    All proceeds benefit the Friends of Forbes Library, Inc. to support programs, events, and projects for the library that could not otherwise be funded. For details: www.forbeslibrary.org. For more information, contact: Lyn Heady 413-584-7041.

  • Tuesday, April 12, 1:00 pm – Twenty Five Fabulous Roses

    Tuesday, April 12, 1:00 pm – Twenty Five Fabulous Roses

    Mike and Angie Chute have been growing roses for over twenty years in their East Providence, Rhode Island garden.  For many years they have presented programs at such venues as the Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show, the Boston Flower & Garden Show, Newport Flower Show, University of Rhode Island, garden clubs, and NBC10’s Plant Pro.  As a way to reach more home gardeners and landscape professionals, they started RoseSolutions as a landscape consulting company that offers educational programs, workshops, seminars, and consulting services on rose horticulture.  To further their goal of reaching every gardener who wants to know more about growing roses in New England, they established their website http://www.rosesolutions.net.  They are the authors of Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening, and Rose Gardening Season by Season: A Journal for Passionate Gardeners, both of which will be available for purchase at The Garden Club of the Back Bay’s April meeting, to be held this Tuesday, April 12, at 1 pm.  The afternoon meeting will be followed by an optional tea ($15).  If you are interested in attending, email info@bostonflora.com.  We apologize for the late website notification.  Members received a written notice, and this post was one of the many which disappeared into the ether during our February server problem.

  • Wednesday, March 16 – Sunday, March 20 – The Boston Flower & Garden Show

    Leave behind the gray days of winter and rejoice in the 2011 show, entitled A Burst of Color: Celebrating the Container Garden. Boston’s biggest horticultural happening provides the tools and inspiration to kick off the season in style.  Hours are 9 am – 8 pm Wednesday, March 16 through Saturday, March 19 and 9 am – 6 pm on Sunday, March 20.   A complete schedule of lectures and demonstrations will be posted at www.thebostonflowershow.com, but some highlights include a talk by Tovah Martin on The New Terrarium, a lecture by Ellen Ecker Ogden  on The Complete Kitchen Garden, and a charmingly entitled “Growing Your Groceries in Containers” by Teresa O’Connor and Jayme Jenkins.   The show plays host to amateur competitions as well, coordinated by The Massachusetts Horticultural Society along with The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts.

  • Saturday, November 20, 10:00 am – Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening

    The New England Rose Society invites you to join its members on Saturday, November 20, at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts, for the November meeting featuring Mike and Angie Chute, authors of Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening.  Autographed books will be available for purchase at the lecture.  For more information, contact Tracy Peter, Secretary of the NERS, at 978-764-7101.