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  • Sunday, June 11, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Through the Garden Gate: A Tour of Dover’s Private Gardens

    Peek into the world of eight private gardens in Dover, at “Through the Garden Gate” a special event in conjunction with the Dover Benefit Fund. At this limited access Tour, you’ll drive to eight locations to see residential gardens of all types, including the pollinator garden and sensory garden at Powisset Farm. Upon arriving at the Powisset stop on the Tour, you’ll sample an infused beverage, and enjoy cookies and lemonade in the Farm Store. The garden tour starts in Dover Center, where a special marketplace will feature food, face painting for children, live music and more.

    The June 11 Tour begins at the marketplace, 32 Dedham Street in Dover Center, where ticketholders check-in. The event is rain or shine. Tickets are limited and may be purchased at this link in advance.

  • Sunday, November 11, 11:30 am – 3:30 pm – 27th Annual Dover Holiday House Tour

    Tis the season! The Dover Town Library is holding its 27th Annual Dover Holiday House Tour on Sunday, November 11, 2012. This year we are bringing back the Holiday House Tour, returning our annual event to its traditional date in November. While the gardens were a wonderful addition to our Tour last year, many in the community expressed their sadness that the Tour was no longer in November to kick off of the holiday season. And so we are back! The tour is one of the Friends of the Library’s biggest fundraisers, and as in years past, it will feature four of Dover’s finest homes, and each home will be decorated by a local florist or garden club and feature fare from a local restaurant or caterer. For tickets and more information, visit www.friendsofdoverlibrary.com/. Photo from charlotte-design.blogspot.com.

  • Tuesday, August 16 – Thursday, August 18, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Botanical Illustration with Colored Pencil

    This Berkshire Botanical Garden three day intensive workshop, from 10 – 4 on  Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August 16, 17 and 18 will focus on colored pencil techniques for botanical illustration. Learn ways to create textured backgrounds with the brilliant hues of colored pencils. This versatile color medium can create colors smooth as glass and rough as sandpaper and by changing technique mimic an oil painting, pastel or watercolor. Discover which colors glow together and others that harmonize in a composition. Explore a full range of techniques for creating both bold and subtle effects that will bring a botanical drawing alive. Participants should bring a pear and other fruits or flowers to include in their illustrations.  Bring a bag lunch and enjoy your meal in and around the garden.

    Carol Ann Morley is an illustrator and dedicated teacher of botanical illustration working in Dover, NH. She founded the Botanical Art Illustration Certificate Program at the New York Botanical Garden and teaches illustration there and for other botanical gardens. This is Ms. Morley’s only workshop at the Berkshire Botanical Garden for 2011.  To register on line ($195 for BBG members, $225 for nonmembers) log on to www.berkshirebotanical.org, or call 413-298-3926.

     

  • Sunday, June 12, 11:30 am – 3:30 pm – Dover Library House and Garden Tour

    The Friends of the Dover Library are pleased to announce the Dover Library House Tour will be held on Sunday, June 12th, from 11:30 – 3:30 pm. Several exciting changes have been made to this popular event in order to offer patrons something different each year. This year, the Tour moves to the Spring to become the Dover Library House and Garden Tour. In addition to presenting three of Dover’s finest homes, the tour will now showcase three of Dover’s most distinguished private gardens. There are six separate venues in all.

    Two of the homes are beautiful antique farmhouses which celebrate Dover’s rich agricultural past. Indeed, one of the properties dates back to the town’s earliest settlements of 1640. The third home is a newly-constructed contemporary shingle-style house with grand living spaces.

    At each house, guests will sample gourmet fare from Dessert Works, Dover Market, and Sherborn Inn. The homes will be splendidly decorated by the floral experts of Chicatabot Garden Club, Dover Garden Club, Perennial Designs and Powisset Garden Club.

    The three gardens are destinations in themselves. One is found along the banks of the Charles River and features a stone terrace, rose, grass, and shrub gardens which gently slope down to the water’s edge. The second garden is located on a pond with a wonderful rill and a unique sunken garden with raised beds of flowers, vegetables, and herbs. The third is an ever-changing woodland garden created by its owner, a noted landscape designer, which includes works of sculpture, a Tuscan courtyard, ceremonial fire pit, and water features.

    This year, they will also be holding a special raffle on the day of the tour, with many items for the home and garden, as well as gift certificates from local stores, salons and restaurants. For more information, log on to www.friendsofdoverlibrary.com.

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  • Wednesday, March 3, 9:00 am – New Harmonies in Container Gardening

    The Powisset Garden Club presents this program, open to the public, on Wednesday, March 3, beginning at 9 am at the Dover Town House, 5 Springdale Avenue in Dover, MA.  Katherine Tracey is co-owner of Avant Gardens, a small specialty nursery in Dartmouth, MA.  They grow a wide variety of uncommon plants, with an emphasis on tender perennials.   Kathy has been selecting uncommon plants for the container displays at Avant Gardens for over a decade.  Her years of experience have allowed her to refine the list to the best and easiest choices for easy care for plant combinations.  This slide presentation will introduce you to many new cultivars and start our creative juices flowing.  For additional information log on to http://maclubs.esiteasp.com/powissetgardenclubofdover.

  • Sunday, November 8, 11:30 am – 3:30 pm – The Friends of Dover Town Library Annual Holiday House Tour

    Come to Dover on Sunday, November 8, from 11:30 am – 3:30 pm, when the Friends of the Dover Town Library present their Annual Holiday House Tour.  For over 20 years, Dover residents have opened their homes to the tour participants to raise money for various programs of the Dover Library.  This year there are four beautiful houses on the tour.  Local caterers and florists who are supporting the effort are Dover Market, Chiara, DessertWorks, and the Sherborn Inn, as well as Perennial Design, Flowers by Forte, Flowers by Design, the Powisset Garden Club, Chicatabot Garden Club, and the Dover Garden Club. You may purchase tickets  ($35) on line at www.dovertownlibrary.org.