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  • Thursday, September 6 – Sunday, September 9 – The Gardens of Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Island

    Berkshire Botanical Garden invites you to join an exclusive tour to discover the gardens of Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Island. Mt. Desert Island is considered one of Maine’s most revered summer resort islands where such towns as Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor dot the area. A major aspect of Mt. Desert Island is nature and the cultivation of beautiful gardens. One person stands out for her highly talented contribution: the legendary landscape designer Beatrix Farrand, who summered at Bar Harbor for over half a century, creating over 60 gardens on the island. One of her greatest projects was the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden at Seal Harbor. Collections of plants from her Reef Point home can now be seen at the Asticou Azalea Garden and Thuya Garden, both at Northeast Harbor. Another Farrand garden can be found at her last home, Garland Farm, Salisbury Cove, now maintained by the Beatrix Farrand Society.  Trip highlights may be viewed at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/sites/default/files/BBG%20Bar%20Harbor%20Trip%20Highlights.pdf

  • Friday, July 20, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm – The Sea Around Us Home and Garden Tour

    The beautiful Boothbay Peninsula in Maine is the setting for Boothbay Region Garden Club’s annual tour, this year entitled The Sea Around Us. Each year they try to include homes and gardens in attractive and unfamiliar locations to give the visitor an opportunity to see Boothbay’s wonderful and varied communities. Some homes are new and some are old, but each has its own special appeal.

    You will be delighted to see what the gracious homeowners have accomplished with their properties. If you enjoy seeing different architecture, furnishings, and gardens you will have the opportunity to gather some new ideas, learn a few things about gardens, and just have a fun-filled day in the Boothbay area! Tickets for our Home and Garden Tour are $30 in advance and $35 the day of the tour. They may be purchased at the Boothbay Harbor Chamber of Commerce at 192 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor or by contacting Irene Gerny 207-633-5052 or Pat McMurry 207-633-7405.

    ​PROCEEDS FROM THE TOUR HELP PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE MANY PROJECTS OF THE CLUB:

    * Scholarships for advance education concerning the study of ecology, marine biology, horticulture, botany and earth sciences.

    * YMCA Camperships for local children

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  • Saturday, July 14, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Cape Elizabeth Garden Tour

    The 2018 Fort Williams Park Foundation Garden Tour will feature several spectacular properties and private gardens in Cape Elizabeth and South Portland, Maine. All proceeds from tickets, program advertising, and sponsorships will benefit the Arboretum Project of the Fort Williams Park Foundation. The tour takes place on Saturday, July 14, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

    Tickets are available at https://fortwilliams.org/product/garden-tour-2018-tickets/ or at area retailers by June. Tickets cost $30 in advance and $40 on the day of the event.

    Simply show your online receipt or gift certificate when you check in at the Registration table at Fort Williams Park. Look for an “Online Tickets” check-in line, where we will have your name on a list. Tickets are non-refundable and the tour takes place rain or shine.

  • Sunday, July 8, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Hidden Gardens of Munjoy Hill

    Each year Friends of the Eastern Promenade hosts and coordinates the Hidden Gardens of Munjoy Hill. This self-guided walking tour offers a sneak peek into a selection of private gardens within the charming seaside neighborhood adjacent to the Eastern Promenade in Portland, Maine. Friends of the Eastern Promenade adopted the tour as its own in 2010.

    Portland’s East End has become a sought-after neighborhood for many reasons, not least its wonderful gardens. Tour attendees come from as far away as Massachusetts and New Hampshire and attendance grows each year. The tour begins at Fort Allen Park, and tickets are $15 in advance, $30 on the day of the tour. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://easternpromenade.org/hidden-gardens-of-munjoy-hill/

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  • Sunday, August 10, 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Down to Earth: A How-To Tour of the Hamilton House Gardens

    Learn the inside scoop on the day-to-day work of maintaining the Hamilton House gardens from the gardeners themselves while you pick up valuable tips to implement in your own garden. Gardeners Mimi Demers and Kathy Gray share their knowledge and experiences, touching on a variety of how-to topics including buying plant material, feeding and fertilizing, favorite tools, dealing with bugs, and more. The program will take place Sunday, August 10, from 10:30 – 11:30 at Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s Lane, South Berwick, Maine, and is sponsored by Historic New England. Free to HNE Garden and Landscape members, $8 to Historic New England members, and $15 to nonmembers.

    Registration is required. Please call 207-384-2454 for more information, or register online at http://shop.historicnewengland.org/p-6569-down-to-earth-a-how-to-tour-of-the-hamilton-house-gardens.aspx.

  • Saturday, July 6, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – 2nd Annual Books in Bloom Tour

    Five unique and striking gardens on the picturesque Schoodic Peninsula will be open for you to explore and enjoy, in the 2nd Annual Books in Bloom Tour on Saturday, July 6 from 11 to 3, sponsored by the Winter Harbor Public Library, pictured below. Complete details are available at www.winterharbor.lib.me.us.  This is a rain or shine event.

    Tickets are $20 each and may be purchased at the library, or reservations made by calling the library 207-963-7556 or the organizers 207-963-4113.  The Library is located at Channing Chapel, 18 Chapel Lane in Winter Harbor, Maine.

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  • Sunday, July 14, 10:00 am – Gardens in the Watershed Tour

    Each year, The Georges River Land Trust in Rockland, Maine, hosts an immensely popular Gardens in the Watershed tour in a different section of the Georges River watershed to give visitors a sense of the diversity and beauty of the landscapes from Montville to Port Clyde, and to explore regions they may have never visited.

    The tour in 2013 is the 22nd and it features seven outstanding gardens in the upper watershed of the St. George River, including a working farm, nursery, sunflowers business, and geranium mail order business.

    In addition to enjoying the gorgeous gardens, the day includes short talks on topics related to gardening, and a chance to meet the garden owners. Another element of the event is a raffle offering gift certificates donated by local nurseries, florists, farms, and artisans. The tour is the primary fundraising event of the Land Trust. The proceeds from the tour enable us to work with landowners to honor their legacy of land, create and maintain the Georges Highland Path, and offer environmental education and outdoor experiences to the public. Tour tickets are $25 in advance, $28 on the day of the tour, and there is a $10 lunch option, all of which can be ordered on line at www.georgesriver.org/gardens-in-the-watershed-tour/.

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  • Saturday, July 21, 9:00 am – 8:00 pm – Historic Houses and Gardens in South Berwick, Maine

    Massachusetts Horticultural staff members April Daley and Maureen Horn are hosting a bus trip on Saturday, July 21, to South Berwick, Maine, where travelers will receive private group tours of two properties owned by Historic New England. The first is the 1785 Georgian mansion, Hamilton House, a National Historic Landmark, built on a bluff overlooking the Salmon Falls River and surrounded by classic gardens.

    The featured visit is to the Sarah Orne Jewett House, first owned by her family in 1819, on a festive day when the public is being invited especially into its herb gardens. Nancy Wetzel, the House’s Landscape historian, will speak to the group from Mass Hort on the historic importance of herbs and of community herbalists, as seen through the lens of The Country of the Pointed Firs and Mrs. Todd, the novel’s herb practitioner. Afterwards, she will guide us through the garden to provide a sensory experience of the herbs described by Jewett.

    Between house visits, we will stop in Kittery, Maine so that travelers can choose a place to enjoy lunch from a large array of restaurants.

    The tour will start at 9:00 in the Target parking lot on Route 30 in Framingham and return there at 8:00 p. m.

    If you have questions about the tour please contact the librarian, Maureen Horn, at 617-933-4912 or MHorn@Masshort.org. The cost is $110 for Mass Hort members and $130 for non-members.

    Registration will be complete only by an online reservation or check payable to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society by July 2.. Please mail your check to the attention of Maureen Horn at 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02482.

    Note: If there are fewer than 20 registrants by July 3 the tour will be cancelled.

  • Wednesday, August 17, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm – Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and More

    Enjoy the glories of two coastal Maine gardens – one a renowned Botanical Garden and the other a stunning private garden on the coast nearby. On Wednesday, August 17, from 9 – 3, Plant and Garden Curator Bill Cullina welcomes New England Wild Flower Society members and friends to the magnificent Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, officially opened in 2007, but already making a name for itself nationally with the newly installed two-acre Children’s Garden, the Garden of the Five Senses, multiple ornamental displays, an area of native Maine plantings, fairy villages, waterfalls — all surrounded by exceptional natural beauty and incomparable stonework and sculpture. After an orientation from Bill, you tour the Gardens with a docent and then enjoy lunch at the Kitchen Garden Café.

    After lunch and time to explore on your own, you drive a short distance along the coast to Frogs Leap, where owner Ellie Freeman shares her exuberant plantings inspired by art and literature, creating a wonderful expression of horticultural form and color. The garden includes a blend of classic Maine perennials with modern varieties and native plants. A human-sized frog sculpture contemplates a water garden where real frogs bask on lily pads. We explore this rocky coastal site, now transformed with a hillside stroll garden, game lawn, vegetable and cutting garden, chess lawn, lily pond, moss walk, dry-stone Asian-style contemplative garden, and 150-foot long borders ablaze with late summer bloom.

    Cost: $89 (includes cost of tour and lunch) (Member) / $104 (Non-Member. Register at www.newfs.org.

  • Saturday, July 16, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Spectacular Gardens of Scarborough Tour

    The Scarborough Garden Club announces its Spectacular Gardens of Scarborough Tour, to be held Saturday, July 16, from 9 – 4, rain or shine.  Advance tickets are $15, or $20 day of tour. Call 207-839-4033 for more information, or log on to their website:  http://home.roadrunner.com/~garden/ or e-mail Barbara at gardenz@maine.rr.com. There are 10 gardens this year, none of them have been on previous tours and 6 of them are in one neighborhood in which you can park and walk. Picture below courtesy of Gnome Landscapes.