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  • Saturday, November 20, 10 am – 3 pm – Wrapping Stones Japanese Style

    Participate in a hands on workshop at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Saturday, November 20 from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. It is mysterious, but basket makers and gardeners alike love and collect beautiful stones! We keep them in our studios, gardens and touch them often. Now you can learn to “wrap stones” and further that connection between stones and people. Using raffia, waxed line and cane, each participant will weave an open pattern over each stone. Start collecting! Put them on your windowsills, line your garden paths or give them as gifts. Nancy Moore Bess is a master basket maker and exhibits her baskets worldwide. She has championed Japanese basketry in the west and is the author of Bamboo in Japan. Her popular workshops always sell out. Bring a bagged lunch. BBG members $75, non-members $85, plus a $15 materials fee paid directly to the instructor.  For more information, log on to www.berkshirebotanical.org.

  • Saturday, April 24 – Sunday, April 25, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – 51st Annual Spring African Violet Show and Plant Sale

    This Spring marks the Baystate African Violet Society’s 50th Anniversary. They will sponsor an AVSA-approved African violet show and plant sale at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25, from 10 am – 5 pm each day.  The show gives people an opportunity to enter their plants and floral designs for judging to win ribbons and prizes.  You can also attend workshops on AV care. At the sale, commercially grown plants and supplies are sold, along with plants grown by Society members. There is an $10 entrance fee to Tower Hill. For more information, log on to www.baystateafricanviolet.org.

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  • Saturday, April 17, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Art’s Traveling Cactus & Succulents Plant Show

    Not just spines! Lots of unusual and fascinating plants most people can easily grow. Hundreds of rare and bizarre plants strutting their stuff! Art Scarpa of the Cactus and Succulent Society will bring along both indoor tropical and hardy outdoor plants, depending upon the season, to Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston for this instructional class on Saturday, April 17, beginning at 11 am and running through 12:30 pm. The plants pictured below are aeoniums.  THBG members $20, non-members $22. Register on line at www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Saturday, November 21, 10 am – 3 pm – Wrapping Stones Japanese Style

    Participate in a hands on workshop at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Saturday, November 21 from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. It is mysterious, but basket makers and gardeners alike love and collect beautiful stones! We keep them in our studios, gardens and touch them often. Now you can learn to “wrap stones” and further that connection between stones and people. Using raffia, waxed line and cane, each participant will weave an open pattern over each stone. Start collecting! Put them on your windowsills, line your garden paths or give them as gifts. Nancy Moore Bess is a master basket maker and exhibits her baskets worldwide. She has championed Japanese basketry in the west and is the author of Bamboo in Japan. Her popular workshops always sell out. Bring a bagged lunch. BBG members $55, non-members $60, plus a $15 materials fee paid directly to the instructor.  For more information, log on to www.berkshirebotanical.org.

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  • Saturday, October 17 – Keene Pumpkin Festival

    The 19th Annual Keene Pumpkin Festival will take place Saturday, October 17, in Keene, New Hampshire. ” The arrival of the Pumpkin Festival has a warming effect, like the aroma of coffee brewing in a morning kitchen”, according to The Keene Sentinel.  “The Pumpkin Festival began as a modest event for the people of Keene and their friends.  It was great fun, and sure proof that there is more than one way to carve, cook and stack a pumpkin.  [Nineteen] years later, all has changed.  Keene’s once cozy little celebration has gained world-wide stature.  It is, for lack of a better word, a spectacle.”  In the past, over 25,000 pumpkins decorated the streets.  Over 1,000 costumed children take part in the Costume Parade, non profit organizations take in more than $200,000, a 1,300 pound pumpkin, the largest pumpkin ever displayed at the time, was brought in, sometimes weddings are planned, craft and food vendors line the streets, and more than 800 volunteers donate their time.  For more information, and directions, log on to www.pumpkinfestival.com.

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