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  • Saturday, July 12, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Gloucester Garden Tour

    Saturday, July 12, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Gloucester Garden Tour

    This July 12 Gloucester Garden Tour of unique and fabulous properties on our picturesque Back Shore will take place from 10 – 4. Wander between small and large private properties, some professionally designed and others lovingly planted over many years by their owners. There is something for everyone. From a precious Japanese Garden with a very rare Mimosa tree, to grand old estate gardens with sweeping views of the ocean, the tour is sure to delight even the most experienced of garden tour goers. It is a self-guided tour with many volunteers drawn from all the Cape Ann garden clubs working as *garden sitters* and guides.  The tickets are $25.00 per person ($20.00 in advance online until July 9th, 2014 at www.gloucestergardentour.com.
    On the day of the tour pick up your ticket/booklet with maps and descriptions at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA. The profits from this tour will benefit the new Plant Grant Circle Project. See www.PlantGrantCircle.org for details on that project.  For more information or to volunteer, please contact Susan Kelly:
    Susan@generousgardeners.org.

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  • Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21 -Cape Ann Garden Festival

    Friday, June 19, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.    Beauport Reception and Talk $20/$15 members
    Enjoy an evening reception with wine, beer, and appetizers in the garden overlooking Gloucester Harbor and hear about the newly uncovered garden staircase that is part of the stunning new garden renovation at Beauport, The Sleeper-McCann House, a property of Historic New England.

    Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.    Garden Tour $35
    Tour glorious gardens with magnificent plantings and stunning vistas. This year new stops on the tour feature sculpture gardens, water views, private quarries and fabulous perennial and herb gardens. In addition several of the homes will be open for visitors’ viewing.

    Sunday, June 21,      Workshops, Lecture and Exhibition Tour

    10 a.m.-11 a.m. Planning a Garden for People and Pollinators, Kim Smith $15

    Author of Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! and an inspired designer and illustrator, Kim will talk about the ways to make a garden both beautiful for people and attractive to birds and butterflies.  Join us for a lecture and booksigning.

    11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. The Herb Garden in 18th Century New England, Judy Hallberg $20

    Herbs provide interesting foliage and are also the basis for lotions and salves with healing properties. Learn about herbs and the ways in which they were gardened and used in the 1700s. Judy Hallberg works with the 17th and 18th century gardens of the Ipswich Historical Society and recently completed restoration of the society’s 17th century Housewife’s Herb Garden.

    1:30 p.m. -2:30 p.m. Cape Ann Museum, Docent-led tour of the exhibit “A View from the Terrace” Free

    Free to Garden Festival ticket holders. The Museum is located at 27 Pleasant St., Gloucester. Call Jeanette Smith at 978-283-0455, extension 11 for reservations.

    3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Growing and Propagating Antique Roses, Peggy J. Flanagan $20, materials incl.

    Old Garden Roses are rewarding and easy to grow using organic methods. You’ll learn how to plant, prune and care for these beautiful roses. Each person will take home a potted rose cutting. Bring gloves and a pair of pruners. Peggy J. Flanagan is a landscape designer and an adjunct instructor in the landscape design program at North Shore Community College. She specializes in the history of New England gardening.

    For more information, and to purchase tickets on-line, log on to www.sargenthouse.org.  Tickets are also available at the Weathervane, 153 Main Street, Gloucester, and at the Sargent House Museum, 49 Middle Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts.