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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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  • Tuesday, March 27, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Common Sense Growing

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts is excited to host Jamie Colen, the Garden Director at Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, March 27 at 10 am. The event is a horticulture morning not to be missed.  Jamie, with almost 20 years as Garden Director at one of the last working formal estate gardens of the 20th century, presents a slide show entitled Common Sense Growing. It dispels many garden myths and misconceptions as well as touches upon a short history of Fuller Gardens. Location: Espousal Center (554 Lexington Street, Waltham, MA) Cost: $5.00 Contact: Misty Florez at  mistyfloral@yahoo.com

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  • Tuesday, August 1 – Thursday, August 3 – Coastal Maine Garden Trip

    DAY 1: Come and join Tower Hill Botanic Garden for our visit to the charming Maine Coast, August 1 – 3! Our first stop is a visit to the very beautiful Fuller Gardens an elegant 1938 formal estate designed by the Olmsted Brothers. This ‘Seaside Gem’ features hundreds of varieties of gorgeous roses, English perennial border, Japanese garden framing a pond and more. Now we continue along the coast with a lunch stop en route, to arrive at Boothbay Harbor to spend 2 nights at the Boothbay Harbor Inn located right on the Harbor, near the footbridge. Enjoy lovely rooms and fabulous views. Welcome Dinner in the Inn’s waterfront restaurant.

    DAY 2: This morning we’ll have breakfast before visiting the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, a natural wonder on 250 acres of shorefront in mid-coast Maine. Join our garden docents for a Guided Walking Tour as we stroll through spectacular ornamental gardens, waterfront and woodland trails. Visitors are delighted by the beautiful plantings, impressive stonework, waterfalls, fountains, and scenic views. Enjoy an afternoon at leisure to explore the charming village of Boothbay with its wonderful shops, crafts and exciting harbor front. Farewell lobster dinner at McSeagull’s Restaurant.

    DAY 3: We say goodbye to our friends in Boothbay Harbor and head to Portsmouth, NH. It’s time to explore four centuries of American History through the eyes of the people who lived in New Hampshire’s oldest waterfront neighborhood, Strawbery Banke. Here you can see 40 buildings – most on their original sites – spanning the late 1600s to the mid-1950s. From the spare storefronts of colonial merchants, the elegant Georgian-style mansion of Governor Goodwin, the humble dwellings of early Jewish immigrants, the penny candy counter of the WWII-era Abbott Store, Strawbery Banke tells the stories of a neighborhood over time. We head home with memories of our Maine Coast trip.

    Member $599, Non-member $659 pp double / triple, $110 single supplement, $200 deposit

    Includes: Deluxe Motor Coach, 2 nights hotel, 2 breakfasts, 2 dinners, sightseeing & admissions – final payment due 6/20/17. If a passenger cancels from deposit to June 20, 2017 fee of $100 pp; June 21 to July 17, 2017 fee of $350 pp; no refunds if cancelled on July 18, 2017 or later unless a substitute is provided. Trip Protection Coverage is strongly recommended.  To register visit https://towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org/pages/event-registration-form—coastal-maine-garden-trip

  • 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.

  • Thursday, June 25, 7:30 a.m. – 6:45 p.m. – Coast of Maine and Seacoast of New Hampshire Day Trip

    The Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture has organized a fabulous day trip on Thursday, June 25.  Meet in the Gray Parking Lot to carpool at 7:30 a.m.  Expected return time is 6:45.  The first garden stop is Braveboat Harbor Farm in York, Maine, the home of Cynthia and Calvin Hosmer.  These gardens were hay fields which rise from the rockbound coast.  Visit the formal front garden, a vegetable garden, an orchard, a woodland garden, and collections of hostas, lilacs and magnolias.  This bit of paradise was featured in last summer’s issue of “La Vie Claire” and has been a participant in the Garden Conservancy’s Open Gardens Day for the past eight years.

    The lovely home of Vance and Anne Mitchell Morgan on Gemish Island in Kittery Point will be the setting for lunch.  The garden, largely designed and created by them, overlooks a tidal inlet and features a rock garden, perennial beds, a fountain garden and a wonderful shady woodland garden.  Colorful containers on the deck show off choice plants.  The Morgans moved to Maine when Anne retired from the Wellesley College Alumnae Association.

    Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, New Hampshire, is a turn-of-the-century estate garden established by then-Governor of Massachusetts Alvan T. Fuller to please his wife, Viola, who loved flowers and especially roses.  Today Fuller Gardens is known primarily for its extensive collection of roses, and Garden Director Jamie Colen will give a short talk about the roses and other features of the Gardens.  A stop at the nearby home of Anne Sinnott Moore for refreshments preceeds heading back to Wellesley.  Members $48, Non-Members $60, includes lunch, snacks, and gardens.  To sign up, log on to http://www.wellesley.edu/WCFH/Courses/OnTheRoadJune09.pdf,  or mail a check to Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481-8203.