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Tag: Botanic Garden of Smith College

  • Saturday, November 4 – Sunday, November 19, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Fall Chrysanthemum Show

    Saturday, November 4 – Sunday, November 19, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Fall Chrysanthemum Show

    Each fall as colors fade outdoors, a riot of color erupts indoors in the Lyman Conservatory at the Botanic Garden of Smith College. While not as widely known as the Spring Bulb Show, this autumnal display is even more spectacular, with vibrant oversized blooms reaching 8 inches across, floral walls of color, and chrysanthemums overflowing the greenhouses.

    The Fall Mum Show has been a popular college and community tradition since the early 1900s and has served as a showcase for the hybridizing experiments of the horticulture class. That tradition continues to this day: the Chrysanthemum Show shows off a variety of multicolor chrysanthemums that were hybridized by the previous year’s horticulture students. The public is then invited to vote for their favorites.

    The Chrysanthemum Show at the Lyman Conservatory is open to the public from Saturday, November 54through Sunday, November 19,  from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. Friday hours are 10:00 am – 8:00 pm. The Botanic Garden is open to the public and a donation of $5 or more is appreciated.  The site is wheelchair accessible. Parking is available on College Lane for the two weeks of the Mum Show. For more information on the show and other events, please contact the Botanic Garden at (413) 585-2740 or visit www.smith.edu/garden.

     

  • Saturday, November 6 – Fall Chrysanthemum Show Opening

    Come to the Botanic Garden of Smith College on Saturday, November 6, and see the most glorious display of autumn blooming chrysanthemums.  The show will on view through November 21, and you will see many varieties you’ll want to plant in your own garden next season.  Or, just come and enjoy the fabulous color – this is a terrific fall outing for those gray November New England days.  For hours and more information, log on to www.smith.edu/gardens, or email garden@smith.edu.

  • Monday, March 8, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The Inner Beauty of Flowers

    The exhibition entitled The Inner Beauty of Flowers, a collaboration between the Botanic Garden of Smith College, retired radiologist Merrill C. Raikes MD, and University of Massachusetts physics professor Robert B. Hallock, will be shown in the Church Exhibition Gallery of the Smith College Lyman Plant House beginning Saturday, March 6, and will run through September 30, 2010.  Join others for an exploration of light, vision, x-rays and flowers, extending the range of our perception, at the opening reception on Monday, March 8, from 7 – 9.  X-rays open up a new world of the interior structure of objects.  Merril Raike’s superb floral radiography reveals an unseen world of delicacy and beauty.  For more information, log on to www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html.