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  • 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.