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  • Friday, September 25, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Bedrock Gardens Tour

    Located just a few short miles from the New Hampshire seacoast, Bedrock Gardens integrates unusual botanical specimens, unique sculptures, and interesting landscape design and features. Over the past forty years, this thirty-acre site transitioned from a historic farm to an oasis of horticulture, art, and inspiration, featuring stunning landscapes such as a Spiral Garden, Parterre Garden, and Rock Garden. Attendees at this American Horticultural Society live tour on September 25 will have the unique opportunity to tour Bedrock Gardens with its creator Jill Nooney and to hear her speak on her recent book detailing the garden’s history. The tour will focus on spectacular fall color, including the GrassAcre, filled with Switchgrass, Hakone Grass, and Little Blue Stem. Registrants can also purchase the book in advance at this link for signing.

    Jill Nooney grew up in rural New Jersey. She attended Bennington College, Smith College School of Social Work, and the Radcliffe Seminars Program in Landscape Design. She has had a lifelong interest in plants, art, and healing the human spirit. She lives with her husband, Bob Munger, in an old farmhouse in New Hampshire. Together, over the span of forty years, they created Bedrock Gardens and, in 2023, they gifted the garden to the Friends of Bedrock Gardens to be enjoyed by all as a public garden.

    $50 for AHS members, $60 for nonmembers. Register at https://ahsgardening.org/behind-the-scenes-garden-tour-bedrock-gardens/

  • Thursday, July 9, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Flower Arranging with Bedrock’s Blooms

    In this creative, hands-on Bedrock Gardens floral design workshop, students are invited to bring a special vase or vessel from home and use it as the foundation for a one-of-a-kind arrangement. Whether your container is tall, wide, vintage, or unconventional, you’ll learn how to design in a way that highlights its unique shape and character—ensuring every participant leaves with something truly personal.

    Together, we’ll explore how vessel size and form influence floral composition, along with key design principles that help arrangements feel balanced and expressive. The class will also include a discussion on color theory, focusing on the use of monochromatic versus polychromatic palettes to create different moods and visual impact.

    Erin Prawoko will provide floral mechanics as needed and will introduce agra wool, a sustainable alternative to traditional floral foam, giving participants a chance to work with more eco-friendly materials. Erin Prawoko is in her third season as a Bedrock gardener. Prior to joining Bedrock, her work experience includes nursery/ greenhouse, farming and visual merchandising. She loves every aspect of gardening from seed starting, to harvesting and design. A real flower nerd. Erin approaches the process of bouquet-making with a playful and whimsical touch – tapping into that childhood wonder is part of the craft. With a background in photography, she also applies principals of photographic composition when creating.

    This workshop is perfect for beginners and seasoned flower lovers alike who want to deepen their creativity and see everyday vessels in a whole new way.

    Tickets are are $45 for members (with member discount code) and $55 for non-members which includes a full day pass to the gardens. Bedrock Gardens is located at 19 High Road in Lee, New Hampshire. Sign up and learn more at https://www.bedrockgardens.org/program-calendar.html

  • Friday, July 13, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm – Trip to Bedrock Gardens and Fuller Gardens in New Hampshire

    Join Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Friday, July 13 and travel to Bedrock Gardens (pictured below) in Lee, New Hampshire to enjoy a garden tour followed by a picnic lunch and time to explore on your own. In the afternoon, visit Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, New Hampshire. The group will leave Tower Hill at 8 am and return at 5 pm.

    Bedrock Gardens is a unique garden oasis. A former dairy farm in rural NH has been transformed over the past 30 years into a stunning landscape of diverse plant collection, varied landscape design, hardscaping, and extensive sculpture collection made from repurposed farm equipment. The garden includes many structural elements such as paths, an espaliered fence, an arborvitae hedge, architecturally interesting rocks, pergola, and garden art. The beds have exceptional plant varieties, often started as seedlings, including many unusual specimens of perennials, trees and shrubs.

    Fuller Gardens is a public botanical garden that was once part of the summer estate of Alvan T. Fuller on the Seacoast of New Hampshire. It’s a delightful oasis situated a stone’s throw from the ocean. The gardens feature horticulture at the highest level, with thousands of rose bushes and hundreds of varieties that bloom all season long. Formal English perennial borders, a Japanese Garden and a tropical conservatory are all framed by sculpted hedges.

    Tower Hill Member $150, Non-member $175; includes transportation, admissions to Bedrock Gardens and Fuller Gardens, guided tour of Bedrock Gardens, and box lunch. To register, visit www.towerhillbg.org. If you wish to travel to the gardens on your own, call 508-869-6111 to coordinate meeting times.

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  • Saturday, July 22, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Bedrock Gardens

    Bedrock Gardens is a twenty-acre sculpture park, botanical garden, and cultural center, and also the private home of Jill Nooney and Bob Munger. It is situated on an abandoned dairy farm at 45 High Road in Lee, southern New Hampshire. It began as a private sanctuary, where Jill could experiment with garden design and fabricating outdoor art. It became a garden experience designed as a journey along a ¾ mile path with places to go, a path to get there, and many stops along the way, such as two long intersecting vistas, a pond, Tea House, 100-foot-long Wiggle Waggle (shown above), rock garden, GrassAcre (an acre of ornamental grasses), Torri, and Parterre garden. Many pieces of sculpture occur along the way, including some hung from the tree canopy and one under the water.

    The works are made predominantly from old farm equipment, disassembled and reconfigured. Historically, New Hampshire was a farming region and that forms the bedrock motif for much of the work. Equipment that may have worked this property appears again as art on the property. Rust is the color of dirt. Join The Cultural Landscape Foundation on Saturday, July 22 for a Garden Dialogue. Thanks to the generosity of our hosts and sponsors, tickets ($95) for Garden Dialogues are tax deductible and proceeds benefit the educational programs of The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Purchase online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/garden-dialogues-2017-bedrock-gardens-tickets-33820189096

  • Tuesday, June 28, 7:30 am – 6:30 pm – On the Road: New Hampshire, From Rocks to Roses

    Take a day trip from Wellesley College with the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture.  Travel by car north to visit Bedrock Gardens in Lee, New Hampshire, pictured below, and other nearby gardens of note, with an optional stop at Fuller Gardens.  The fee ($48 for WCFH members, $60 for non-members) includes lunch.  Contact horticulture@wellesley.edu for more details.