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  • Saturday, May 26, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Fete des Fleurs

    Wear your best hat and celebrate the opening of Berkshire Botanical Garden’s stunning summer exhibition Beautiful Strangers: Artists Discover the Garden, a collection of contemporary sculpture on display throughout the Garden’s beautiful grounds featuring works by Alice Aycock, Wendell Castle, E.V. Day, Fitzhugh Karol, Mark Mennin, Michele Oka Doner, Ned Smyth, Stephen Talasnik, and Rob Wynne.
    Curated by James Salomon.

    This year’s Fete includes Plants as Art — a silent auction of artistically displayed plants, trees, shrubs and container plants. All proceeds from the auction support the Garden’s horticulture and education programs.

    For more information call (413) 320-4794, or register online at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/f%C3%AAte-des-fleurs.

    The following businesses have generously donated to Plants as Art

    Broken Arrow Nursery
    Campo de’ Fiori
    David Burdick Daffodils & More
    Glendale Botanicals
    Hort and Pott
    Maple Lane Nursery
    O’Brien Nursery
    Pondside Nursery
    Twin Brooks Gardens
    Whalen Nursery, Inc.
    White Flower Farm
    Windy Hill Nursery
    Zema’s Nursery

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  • Saturday, December 2, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – Concord Museum Holiday House Tour

    On Saturday, December 2, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., several of Concord’s most beautiful private homes will be professionally decorated in the holiday spirit by local and Boston-based interior designers. Guests will be welcomed inside the front doors of these gracious private residences to visit the charming ground floor rooms. From Colonial to Victorian to Shingle Style and more, each house will be decorated in a different holiday theme. The Concord Museum welcomes you to spend the day in Concord, a small town with a big history, and enjoy the elegant streets, charming cafés and shops, as well as the many historic homes.

    The Guild of Volunteers is organizing this event as a benefit for the education initiatives of the Museum. Tickets may be purchased online at http://www.concordmuseum.org/special-events-house-tour.php, at the Museum, or by phone. Tickets and maps must be picked up at the Museum the day of the tour. Sponsors include Barrett/Sotheby’s International Realty, Coldwell Banker, McWalter Volunteer Insurance Company, William Raveis, W by Worth, and Kistler $ Knapp Builders, Inc.

    Advance discount tickets available online now through November 30: $40 Museum Members, $45 Non-Members. December 1st or day of: $45 Members, $50 Non-Members.

  • Thursday, August 15 – Saturday, August 17 – Boston GreenFest

    Boston GreenFest is organized by the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. As the region’s largest multicultural environmental festival, Boston GreenFest celebrates the many ways we can create a better world by greening our lives and our communities. Turn your world around and have fun at the same time! Free admission at Boston City Hall Plaza at Government Center. Bring your own reuseable water bottle to Boston GreenFest. To help raise awareness about the wastefulness of plastic water bottles, Boston GreenFest will provide free drinking water to everyone. MWRA will help us provide fresh cold water for all festival goers using a special portable water fountain. The Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring a green future for our planet and is proud to host this event. We teach, support and model sustainable ways to live for ourselves and our children. Green roofs are an important part of the solution. This festival will go beyond our roofs. It will get to the core of GREEN SOLUTIONS for our entire Boston Community. Native American Drum & Dance Ceremony will launch Boston GreenFest 2013 on the Main Stage, Thursday, August 15th at 5 pm. Annawon Weeden will lead the ceremony with friends and family of Wampanoag and Narragansett heritage. The One Gallon ChallengeTM is a “race” to Boston GreenFest to see how long one gallon of gas will last. On display at City Hall Plaza will be a group of cars you’ve never seen before. For more information visit www.bostongreenfest.org.

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  • Thursday, November 1, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Trees and Shrubs for Smaller Gardens

    Using trees and shrubs to good effect in small yards can be challenging. Arlington garden designer Sally Nash of Light & Shade Garden Design, Inc., will cover how to choose plants that will not outgrow the available space, where to buy the plants you have selected, and what to look for on plant labels, at this free Medford Garden Club lecture on Thursday, November 1, from 7 – 9. She’ll also touch on planting methods and pruning techniques that can help keep your plants in scale with their neighbors.  The event will take place at the Medford Public Library, 111 High Street in Medford.  For more information you may email sbcummer@msn.com.

  • Thursday, May 6, 6:00 pm – Saturday, May 8, 4:30 pm – Landscapes for Living: Post War Years in Texas

    Another interesting trip is planned May 6 – May 8 by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (www.tclf.org), this time with a focus on the unique Post War legacy of public and private landscapes in Texas, during what is now thought to be an optimistic time of innovation and experimentation.  Nationally recognized speakers from the public and private sectors and the academic community, including Charles Birnbaum, W. Mark Gunderson, and Ben Koush,  will provide rare insight and analysis of this unprecedented era of design.  The conference , to be held at the Dallas Museum of Art, will look both back and ahead, as the symposium culminates in a panel discussion which explores what this design legacy and Modern design means in the 21st century.  Fees (not including transportation and lodging) $125 for members of the TCLF, $150 for nonmembers, $75 students.  Co-sponsored by Historic Fort Worth, Inc. For more information, log on to the TCLF web site or email andrea@tclf.org.  Heritage Park, Fort Worth,  designed by Lawrence Halprin, is pictured below.

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  • Friday, December 4 – Sunday, December 6 – Christmas in Salem

    The 2009 Legacy Tour, sponsored by Historic Salem, Inc.,  steps back in history, featuring 18th and 19th century homes in the Salem Common Neighborhood.  A Candlelight Tour will begin Friday, December 4, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.  On Saturday, December 5, the tour will be open from 10:00 am – 4:30 pm, and on Sunday, December 6, from 11:30 am – 4:30 pm.  There is a Snow Date: Saturday, December 12, from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm.

    It’s Historic Salem’s 65th anniversary, and Christmas in Salem’s 30th holiday house tour. What better way to mark these milestones than with a Christmas house tour that includes historically significant sites on or near this year’s route, which is centered around the Salem Common neighborhood.

    Christmas in Salem will indeed be bigger and better than ever, starting with this website to let you know all about tour features in advance. And there’s lots to share, including information about other holiday events taking place in Salem. Christmas in Salem is more than a house tour…it’s an entire month of fabulous holiday fun.  For questions and more information, call 978-745-0799, or email info@HistoricSalem.org.  Photo below of Salem Common courtesy of Trip Mason Photography.

    Twelve 18th and 19th century homes all decorated for the holidays, all within easy walking distance
    Historic “legacy” sites you’ll pass…and several you can visit

    PLUS

    Free Trolley Service • Restaurant and Shopping Discounts • Special Museum Offers • Concerts • Lectures • Theatre and Movie Tie-ins • Wine Tasting • Holiday Decorating Boutique

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  • Sunday, October 25, 10 – 4 – Come See Our Bloomers!

    Beautiful orchids from all over the world will be displayed by hobbyists, commercial growers and orchid societies on Sunday, October 25, 2009, at the “Come See Our Bloomers!” Show and Sale.  The event will take place at The Pond House at Elizabeth Park, 1555 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut, and admission is free.  See exhibits by orchid and orchid supply vendors, enjoy related arts and crafts, and participate in a teacup raffle.  For further information, contact Jeanne McDermott, President of the Nutmeg State Orchid Society, Inc., at PO Box 131, Farmington, CT 06034-0131, 860-677-5381, or email NSOScontact@comcast.net.  For more information, log on to www.nutmegorchids.org.