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  • Saturday, June 6, 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Chestnut Hill Garden Club Centennial Garden Tour

    The Chestnut Hill Garden Club’s Centennial Garden Tour will take place on Saturday, June 6 from 12 noon – 4:30 pm, rain or shine.  All gardens are located in the Chestnut Hill Historic District and feature many older estate gardens redesigned by some of today’s well-known landscape architects. A lovely meandering walk along quiet streets in the district will provide access to all the gardens. Your tour will end at an historic property, with a large garden of extensive rooms.

    “The front walk is framed by wisteria and acers which leads to the ‘New Dawn’ rose room bordered with eleven trellises, inspired by those in the Bois de Boulogne. There are espaliered fruit trees surrounding the garden of white and purple carrots, heirloom mustard greens and various chicories.”

    Advance tickets are available on line by clicking HERE.  Day of tour tickets are $40 and are available at First Church of Chestnut Hill, 26 Suffolk Road in Chestnut Hill.  For more information, contact carolyn.thayer.ross@comcast.net.  Image from www.chestnuthillgardenclub.org.

  • Tuesday, November 17, 11:00 am – Isabella and Her Gardens

    The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America invites you to its 20th Birthday Celebration Annual Meeting and Fall Lecture on Tuesday, November 17, with registration at 10:30 am, and lecture at 11 am.  Patrick Chassé, the first Curator of Landscape, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will give an illustrated lecture entitled  “Isabella and Her Gardens.”

    Like a horticultural Sherlock Holmes, Patrick Chassé tracks down clues to gardens of the past. His latest challenge is to unlock the secrets of a magnificent courtyard garden long identified with a Boston museum and its charismatic founder.

    Mr. Chassé, a landscape architect, has served since 2004 as the curator of landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the first person to hold such a title there. His detective work involves documenting the courtyard’s evolution and reinstating elements of its design as envisioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner in the early 1900s.

    The event will take place at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.  Cost of lecture is $20 (public invited), Lecture and Luncheon $45 (members of Boston Committee Clubs only, please.)  RSVP by November 12.  Please make check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Mrs. William U. Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.

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