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  • Wednesday and Thursday, July 23 & 24 – Nantucket Garden Festival

    The Nantucket Garden Festival highlights the unique and beautiful garden ecosystems on Nantucket and focuses on the importance of sustainability, conservation and gardening ethics for the long-term health of the island. The 2014 Garden Festival will emphasize the evolution of the Nantucket garden.

    Scheduled for July 23rd & 24th, the festival celebrates gardening through informative workshops, exquisite garden tours, children’s activities and an opening night party.

    The Nantucket Garden Festival benefits Nantucket Lighthouse School, an independent day school serving island children, pre-school through 8th grade. Founded in 1999, Nantucket Lighthouse School provides a developmentally appropriate education that engages the whole child – head, heart, and hand. The concept for the Nantucket Garden Festival was born out of the Lighthouse School’s unique curriculum and organic garden, which provides an outdoor, hands-on classroom for acquiring skills in everything from language arts to science and mathematics.

    The Festival kicks off a Wednesday, July 23 with a walking garden tour east of Main Street from 9 – 11, a plein air painting workshop from 9 – noon, a workshop in Fairy Garden Building from 10 – 12 (repeated Thursday,) and that night, from 6 – 9, A Garden Soiree, the opening night celebration, at the Middle Brick Garden, 95 Main Street. On Thursday, a walking garden tour from 9 – 11 covers gardens west of Main Street, a Printmaking Workshop with Bee Shay from 10 – 12, a Cisco Garden Bike Tour from 10 – 1, and from 3 – 5, a Moors End Farm Tour and CSA talk. All events are separately priced. For complete information visit http://nantucketgardenfestival.net/eventschedule/.

  • Thursday, June 21, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Open Days Garden Tour in Nantucket

    Explore seven private gardens on Nantucket, open to the public to benefit the Garden Conservancy and Sustainable Nantucket. No reservations required; rain or shine.  Special highlights include topiary lilac, a homemade greenhouse, a charming garden shed, and a copper-lined rill among the plants.  Begin at 11 Mill Street, where volunteers will be available to assist and answer questions, or see website, www.gardenconservancy.org,  for additional locations. Most gardens can be reached by walking or biking. $5 per garden. Please note that Moors End Farm, 40 Polpis Road, is also open on this date, offering plants and produce available for purchase (see proprietor Sam Slosek below – photo by Nicole Harnishfeger).

    11 Mill Street is old fashioned and whimsical.  Heathland Gardens at 131 Polpis Road abuts the Middle Moors with a peek at the harbor, and includes many perennial beds connected by stone walks.  Kathryn Young’s Secret Garden at 77 Polpis Road is hidden in the scrub oak and wild shrubbery, and contains five areas of perennials and roses.  The Morash Victory Garden at 41 Shawkemo Road has expanded several times during the past thirty years.  Today, two deer fences protect twenty raised beds.  The MacKenzie Garden at 35 India Street was designed by Nantucket landscape designer Lucinda Young in 2008, with garden designer Kristina Wixted collaborating on the choice of herbaceous flowering plants.  The Tristram Bunker House is nearly 300 years old and was originally located in Nantucket’s early harbor town of Sherburne.  It was moved to its present location (address will be disclosed through the Open Days Directory or at any of the other gardens open the day of tour) in 1756. The Twin Street Gardens at 1 Twin Street is a charming downtown garden behind large hedges.