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  • Now through July 20 – Capturing Her Environment: Women Artists, 1870 – 1930

    This Farnsworth Museum exhibition explores the artistic lives of nine women artists who lived and worked in Maine in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing primarily from the Farnsworth’s permanent collection, it brings together miniatures, still life and landscape painting, and botanical illustrations to celebrate artists who have typically been dismissed as hobby painters or overshadowed by their male artist relatives. The exhibit will be on view through July 20. Free with admission. The Museum is located at 16 Museum Street in Rockland, Maine.

  • 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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  • Friday, September 14 – Saturday, September 15 – 2012 Northeastern Regional Meeting of the American Conifer Society

    The NE Regional Meeting of the American Conifer Society will be held in Rockland, Massachusetts about 25 miles south of Boston on the main highway between Boston and Cape Cod (MA Rte. 3) on Friday and Saturday, September 14 and 15.

    There will be the usual:
    – great verbal and silent plant auctions
    – good food
    – a dynamic speaker
    – comfortable accommodations
    – a bus tour of four local residential conifer gardens – each garden has a slightly different approach to gardening with conifers.

    All gardens are within a 20 minute drive of the hotel which means more time in the gardens and less time on the bus! For registration information and complete details, visit www.conifersociety.org.  Photo from www.todayinthegarden.com.