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  • Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays Now Through September 26, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Guided Garden Tours at Strawbery Banke Museum

    Visitors to Portsmouth, New Hampshire have the opportunity to learn about historic gardens at Strawbery Bank. Expert guides will take you on a journey through time in the historic gardens and landscapes and teach about the careful stewardship and maintenance that goes into preserving the living collection. Gain insights into traditional gardening techniques and how they have evolved, blending seamlessly with modern practices to ensure the gardens’ continued vitality and their ability to share the stories of the people who lived within them. The tours will take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays now through September 26 from 11 – noon, except for June 19, July 4, and September 1 & 4.

    You must have a general museum admission ticket to take the guided garden tour. https://www.strawberybanke.org/guided-garden-tours

  • Saturday, August 12, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm – The Summer Drawing Tour Through Historic New England: Hamilton House and Langdon House

    Join the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art for this Summer Drawing Tour series through Historic New England, led by Architect, David Pearson. The program will be held August 12 from 9:30 – 4, at Hamilton House, 40 Vaughan’s Land in South Berwick, Maine, and at Governor John Langdon House, 143 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

    Sketching historic sites provides participants with practical knowledge of tradition as manifest in the architecture. The morning session will be at the 18th-century Hamilton House. Special attention will be made in drawing the house in the landscape. The afternoon session will be at Langdon House where the focus will be the study of Georgian details.

    Participants follow in the great tradition of architects and artists who have learned from drawing in situ. One may take a thousand photos of a subject and may not know it…but if one spends some time drawing the same object …you will have it in your mind forever. To draw is to see. The program focuses on the enduring vitality and continuity of the classical tradition through the means of observational and analytical drawing.

    Tickets $60; Please click here to register for this program. 

  • 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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  • Sunday, May 17, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm – Spring Into Fiber! Food!! Faults!!!

    The exclamation points are not ours, but the Pioneer Valley Institute is offering a bus tour on Sunday, May 17, from 9 – 6, which may be of interest to our readers. Take an expedition to the Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned cooperative spinning mill which not only creates its own selection of yarns and patterns but also is used by many New England fiber producers. Lunch will be at the nearby and justifiably famous Curtis’ All American Bar-B-Q in Putney VT. (There are alternatives for vegetarians just across the road at the Putney Food Co-op.) Great yarns and fabulous food. Now, fortified with plenty of yarn and sated with ribs or chicken we will proceed to the Chesterfield New Hampshire Gorge for a hike to explore the faux faults found there. For your next fiber project, be inspired by nature’s rich color palette and geological wonders. As you hike the path witness cascades as they disappear into the midst, while others plunge down through the gorge to the pools below.  See the PVI brochure for enrollment details. $35 per person.  Website: www.gcc.mass.edu/pvi .

  • Saturday, August 4, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm – Celia Thaxter’s Restored Historic Appledore Island Garden

    Tour participants will depart Saturday, August 4 at 8 am on the R/V Gulf Challenger from New Castle, NH destination: Appledore Island, Isles of Shoals. With tours lead by trained UNH Marine Docents, participants will enjoy a day’s walking tour on Appledore Island, featuring Celia Thaxter’s restored historic Island Garden made famous in Celia’s book, An Island Garden, published in 1894. The walking tour will include visits to popular coves popularized by Celia’s well-known artist friend Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist who studied under Monet.

    Tour will include a brief glimpse into the workings of the Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML). SML is a world-renowned field station specializing in education and research focused on marine science.

    This is an all-inclusive tour which includes your R/T boat fare, luncheon, all tours, and day parking in New Castle, NH. Appledore Island is an extremely-rugged landscape with uneven, slightly steep, rocky paths. There are no paved roads or paved walkways. All tour participants must be 18 years of age or older and should be in good physical condition. The majority of the day is spent walking (limited seating available on the vessel), and participants are required to stay with tour leader for the duration of the time on Appledore Island.

    Depart from: Judd Gregg Marine Research Complex, 29 Wentworth Road, Fort Point (adj.to USCG Ft. Constitution), New Castle,NH. Sponsored by the Shoals Marine Laboratory and Cornell University. Contact Pam Boutilier at shoals-lab-east@cornell.edu, or call 603-430-5220.

  • Saturday, June 4, 10:30 am – 3:30 pm – Graceful Gardens of New Hampshire

    Three enticing gardens open their gates to the New England Wild Flower Society for a late spring visit in the Sunapee Valley region of New Hampshire. Glenn Irick, landscape designer, leads a tour of “Happy Landings” a magnificent bucolic property surrounding an 1830s colonial style house, with sweeping pastoral views of wetlands, woodlands and Mt. Kearsarge. Eclectic gardens include foundation plantings, pool, and outer gardens with rhododendrons, mountain laurels, viburnums, dogwoods, spirea, clethra, and blueberry, to name a few. Large magnolias, an old craggy apple near the pool, and mature sugar maples at the original front door are all noteworthy specimens. Varietal diversity and spectacular views are strong factors on this lovely site.

    The abundance of showy native woodland species naturally occurring at the Hewitt property in New London are the inspiration for this award-winning garden with its winding stone-lined paths and distinctive alpine habitats. At least 20 species listed as threatened, endangered or of special concern may be seen. A northeast-facing slope is home to a rockery with dwarf and miniature conifers, dwarf northern mountain rhododendron, 5 species of low-growing willows and other rock garden plants. All garden and field work is done exclusively by the owners. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the property.

    At the last garden, extensive native plantings along the long wooded driveway connect to a cutting garden of 6 raised beds and a large shade garden with Actaea, Anemone nemorosa ‘Vindiflora’ (pictured below,) Anemonella, Thalictroides, Dicentra, Disporum, Dodecatheon meadia, Jeffersonia, Polygonatum ‘Variegatum’, Tiarella, and Trillium. This leads to a small shade garden of dwarf perennials near the terrace before you encounter more native plants along the lakeshore. Each area is interspersed with several large, whimsical frog sculptures.  This event, taking place Saturday, June 4 from 10:30 – 3:30, will be led by Thelma Hewett and will cost $55 for NEWFS members, and $62 for non-members.  Sign up at www.newfs.org.

  • Saturday, May 7, 8:30 am – 1:00 pm – Amherst New Hampshire Plant Sale Fair

    80 Boston Post Road in historic Amherst, New Hampshire is the place to be Saturday, May 7, from 8:30 – 1, which is the Saturday before Mother’s Day.  The Amherst Garden Club will offer more than 2,000 perennials, trees and shrubs dug from local gardens, plus annuals, herbs, heirloom vegetables and more.  You’ll also find a bakery table, raffle baskets, and gently-used garden books.  For more information, log on to www.amherstgardenclub.org, or call 603-791-4900.

  • Friday, March 4, 5:30 pm – The Land Use History, Flora, and Natural Communities of the Isles of Shoals

    Bill Nichols, Senior Ecologist/Botanist of the New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau will address the New England Botanical Club on Friday, March 4, beginning at 5:30 pm in the Haller Lecture Hall, Room 102, Harvard Museum of Natural History, 24 Oxford Street in Cambridge. He will speak on the topic The Land Use History, Flora, and Natural Communities of the Isles of Shoals (Rye, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine.) The meeting is free and open to the public. For maps and parking directions, log on to www.rhodora.org.

  • Saturday, August 14, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Hay Day Family Festival

    Enjoy a fun filled day for families of all ages in Newbury, New Hampshire on Saturday, August 14, from 10 – 3 at The Fells. Take an historic guided tour of the Main House and gardens, enjoy live animals, children’s games, demonstrations and food concessions. Free with admission. The Fells Main House.For information and directions to this historic garden on Lake Sunapee, log on to www.thefells.org, or call 603-763-4789.

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  • Wednesday, June 23, 7:30 am – 7:00 pm – Gardens of Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire

    Go on the road with the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture on Wednesday, June 23, leaving the Gray Lot with a car pool at 7:30 am, returning at approximately 7:00 pm.  Rain or shine you will drive to Newbury, New Hampshire, to begin the day in the Lake Sunapee region with a visit to the grounds of The Fells, one of New England’s finest examples of an early 20th century summer estate (see picture below).  At The Fells your guide is Thelma Hewitt, horticulturist with a specialty in native plants and wildflowers.  The estate grounds feature a 100 foot perennial border, the Old Garden hidden behind masses of rhododendrons, a formal Rose Terrace, and a world class Rock Garden.

    From the Fells, drive just up the road to the Hewitt’s for a garden tour and lunch.  The next stop is the Community Garden at Tracy Library in the center of New London.  Working with the Olmsted Brothers firm’s 1926 original plans and plant lists, the garden was recreated and replanted in 2002 by local volunteers, one of whom will be your next hostess, Carolyn Hager.  Traveling to her garden near Pleasant Lake, you will find an unexpected surprise in a woodland setting.

    You’ll end the day with a visit to the garden of Ann Loeffler in Elkins, at the far end of Pleasant Lake.  Ann is a volunteer at The Fells, who says perennials are her ongoing great love, and her current craze is dwarf conifers.  WCFH members $48, non members $60, includes lunch and snacks and garden admissions.  To register, call 781-283-3094, or email horticulture@wellesley.edu.

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