The Ashland Garden Club will present Autumn in Ashland, a garden tour with demonstrations and speakers, on Saturday, September 10, from 8:45 – 2, at a cost of $20 per person, which includes lunch. The event will be located in one of Ashland’s most spectacular private gardens. Activities will include guided garden tours and a raffle. Tickets will go on sale in late summer. Contact Diane at 508-881-8165, email info@ashlandgardenclub.org, or visit www.ashlandgardenclub.org for more information.
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc, and the Southeastern District present “Handwork” a standard flower show at the Barnstable County Fair, Fair hours: July 16 -24 , 12:00 noon – 10:00 pm. Cost: Fair Admission ($10 adult, $8 Seniors and Military, Children under 12 free). The Barnstable County Fair has been an annual summer tradition on Cape Cod for 164 years. The Fair is a place where families can spend the day together and share experiences they can only experience at the Barnstable County Fair.There are animal shows, 4-H demonstrations, petting zoos, horticulture displays, rides, games, live music, arts & crafts, food and commercial vendors with various arts and crafts for sale.  For a complete schedule or entry information contact Hila Lyman, Design Division Entries Chairman, at 508-548-0841, or email her at hilajeanne@comcast.net. For more information on the Fair, log on to www.barnstablecountyfair.org.
The Worcester Art Museum comes alive Thursday, January 27 through Sunday, January 30, 2011 for the annual Flora in Winter celebration! Worcester Art Museum and Tower Hill Botanic Garden present Flora in Winter, the premier floral design event of the year. Skilled artisans from across New England create clever, provocative interpretations at both venues, interpreting this year’s theme “Moments in Time.”
This event lasts only four days. Log on to www.worcesterart.org or call 508-799-4406, ext. 3025 to learn more about special programming as information becomes available. Information may also be found at www.towerhillbg.org. Events include: opening party, demonstrations, guided tours, floral inspired products for sale in the Museum Shop, and extended Museum Café hours.
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. and the Southeastern District presents “A Garden Tour”, a standard flower show at the Barnstable County Fair, Fair hours: 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm every day. Entries are open to all members of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. and any members of National Garden Clubs, Inc. New entry days are Saturday, July 17 and Wednesday, July 21. An exhibitors’ meeting will take place Friday, June 11, at 9:30 am. For more information on entering, contact Flower Show Chairman Robin Murphy at 508-295-9076, or email heroncreekdesign@msn.com. For a complete schedule or entry information contact Hila Lyman, Design Division Entries Chairman, at 508-548-0841, or email her at hilajeanne@comcast.net.
The Barnstable County Fair has been an annual summer tradition on Cape Cod for 164 years. The Fair is a place where families can spend the day together and share experiences they can only experience at the Barnstable County Fair.
There are animal shows, 4-H demonstrations, petting zoos, horticulture displays, rides, games, live music, arts & crafts, food and commercial vendors with various arts and crafts for sale.
For more information on the fair, log on to www.barnstablecountyfair.org.
The 17th Annual Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show will take place Thursday, February 18 through Sunday, February 21 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island. For more information, or to buy tickets on line, log on to www.flowershow.com. This year’s theme is “Timeless Gardens”, which will take you all through decades that will remind you of forgotten sights, times, friends and family. In full bloom, enjoy a garden atmosphere typical of the Roaring Twenties era. Do the stroll or the twist through a 1950’s garden.
For almost two decades the Flower Show has been the beacon for early Spring fun in Rhode Island. The Show attracts more than 30,000 attendees annually, showcasing more than 30 garden displays and 250 garden marketplace vendors. There will be demonstrations and lectures, with an emphasis on organic gardening. Children under five receive free admission.
The Natural Resources Trust of Easton (NRT) is a member-supported, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to educate about significant natural and cultural resources and to acquire and preserve land of special character for the benefit of the public. The NRT promotes a land ethic in the community through educational programming. The NRT provides leadership, cooperation and networking to others with a similar mission. The Easton Garden Club (www.eastongardenclub.org) participates each year in the Annual NRT Harvest & Crafts Fair. The Fair draws thousands of people from around New England who come to shop the many juried crafts booths.
The Easton Garden Club’s civic role in the Harvest Fair is one of education, providing informational handouts on topics such as composting, attracting butterflies to your garden, and tips on native plants and trees. There are many club members, knowledgeable about gardening, at its booth available to answer questions from the public throughout the day. Club members harvest flowers from their gardens and pick (non-endangered!) native flowers, grasses, and vines growing along the roadsides. They start in the late spring and continue through the fall. The flowers are dried and stored until the week before the fair when many of the club members gather together to make wreaths, dried arrangements, and bouquets of flowers to sell. On Fair day they have ongoing demonstrations on subjects such as grapevine wreath making and flower arranging. For directions to the Fair, log on to www.nrtofeaston.org.
Experience an old-fashioned agricultural exhibition complete with demonstrations of early New England farm equipment and displays in the Center Meetinghouse of Old Sturbridge Village. Displays will include Village-grown heirloom vegetables and agricultural accomplishments. Plan now to join the exhibition of Visitor-grown heirloom vegetables. For more information log on to www.osv.org.
Enjoy children’s crafts, music, and demonstrations of spinning and cider pressing at Jackson House, 76 Northwest Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The house itself, dating from 1664 and the oldest house in New Hampshire, is managed and maintained by Historic New England, and will be open for tours, and crafts and refreshments will be sold as well. Free to Historic New England members, $6 for non-members, $3 children. For more information, log on to www.historicnewengland.org, or call 603-435-3205 for directions.
