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  • Saturday, March 28, 8:30 am – 2:30 pm – The Art of Biodiversity Gardening

    Sakonnet Garden invites you to The Art of Biodiversity Gardening: A Gardening Symposium, on Saturday, March 28, featuring speakers Hanna Packer, Uli Lorimer, and Fergus Garrett. The Symposium will take place at Wilber & McMahon Schools, 28 Commons Street in Little Compton, Rhode Island.

    This year’s symposium brings you three speakers who will open a conversation about the art of biodiversity gardening. Our goal in selecting these diverse and complimentary individuals is to foster thought about your own gardens and your own gardening aspirations. Perhaps you will learn that the nurturing of biodiversity is more complex than merely selecting natives over non natives, and that design and beauty in a garden can encourage biodiversity as a direct result or a by-product. In a world where we seem to have little control, Sakonnet Garden hopes that you take away something from this day which will encourage you to be more deliberate in how as gardeners you can make a difference in however small a way intention leads you in the garden.

    Tickets $75. Register at https://www.sakonnetgarden.net/events

  • Sunday, July 17, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Sakonnet Garden

    Sakonnet Garden is a hidden exotic garden embedded within a native coastal fields landscape, a long-term project of John Gwynne and Mikel Folcarelli. This ongoing experiment in design, scale, and plantings began as an acre-sized spring woodland garden and is subdivided into spaces separated by high windbreak hedges and stone walls that enable growing of many Zone 7 plants. Each space has its own mood and horticultural objective. These woodland areas are very different in summer-mostly shady and green, but with the “subtropical quadrant” at peak of exuberance. A new “pollinator plus” summer garden is a colorful walk-through perennial border conceived as a biodiversity maze. Thousands of flowers produce nectar for butterflies, bees, especially native bees, and other insects important for pollination. Clipped topiary ilex begins to mimic the Nupé house posts from Ghana.

    Please note that Open Days tickets are not accepted during this Garden Conservancy Open Day.  Sakonnet Garden will be managing their own ticketing for this event.  Tickets can be purchased on Sakonnet’s website.  $20 per person, $25 if parking a car.

  • Saturday, March 5, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – One Garden, Three Perspectives: Design vs Plants

    On Saturday, March 5, from 1 – 3 at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, join extraordinary plantsmen Ed Bowen of Opus Nursery and John Gwynne and Mikel Folcarelli of Sakonnet Garden for a lively discussion of the plants and design concepts employed in creating the well-known Sakonnet Garden in Little Compton, RI. Learn about choice plants and consider the unusual design elements employed in this garden that surprise and delight. It is a great opportunity to hear about the inner thoughts of three great gardeners and plantsmen who share a few ideas to bring home to your own garden.

    Ed Bowen is owner of Opus Nursery, a nano-nursery in Little Compton, RI, with an increasingly anachronistic horticultural approach: actively collecting, propagating, and growing plants. His focus is the under-cultivated and garden-worthy, with a specialization in unusual perennials. Sakonnet Gardens, pictured below, the long-term project of John Gwynne and Mikel Folcarelli, is a secret garden embedded within a native coastal fields landscape. At the diminutive scale of a cottage garden, it is conceived as an intimate place to explore, with multiple paths leading one onward to unexpected experiences.

    BBG and BNARGS members $22, nonmembers $27.  Register online at www.berkshirebotanical.org.

  • Sunday, March 29, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Practicing the Dark Arts: Tips and Plants

    Tips, techniques and lesser known plants for shade, with a special emphasis on later blooming herbaceous plants, is the topic of this Tower Hill Botanic Garden class on Sunday, March 29 from 2 – 3 with Ed Bowen. THBG member price $15, non-member $25. Register online at www.towerhillbg.org, or call 508-869-6111.

    Ed Bowen is a working gardener and proprietor of Opus Plants, a small nursery in southeastern New England specializing in unusual herbaceous plants. For
    years he was an instructor in the Massachusetts Master Gardener Program, is involved with Sakonnet Garden in Little Compton, RI, on the horticultural steering committee at
    North Hill in Vermont, and has written for Horticulture Magazine and other publications.

  • Wednesday, September 24 – Friday, September 26 – Rhode Island Garden Tour

    Join The Polly Hill Arboretum for a visit to southeastern Rhode Island September 24 – 26. This historic area is rich with diversity, natural beauty and culture. We will be based in the Narragansett Bay town of Bristol for two nights. Thursday we travel to Little Compton to visit three spectacular private gardens, with lunch included. Friday we have a special tour at nearby Blithewold Gardens concluding with a boxed lunch at the mansion. Plan your trip to include extra time to explore many other area attractions on your own, including Green Animals Topiary Gardens, Herreshoff Marine Museum/ America’s Cup Hall of Fame, self-guided town tree tour, and more!

    Tour includes:

    Two nights at the Bristol Harbor Inn; continental breakfast included

    Transportation to Little Compton gardens

    Evening wine and cheese reception

    Boxed lunch both days

    Garden admissions: (Sakonnet Garden, pictured below, and Blithewold special tour fee)

    $150 tax deductible donation to the Polly Hill Arboretum

    Tour Price:  $500 Per person, based on double occupancy  $650 Single

    Tour size limited, sign up early!  Call 508-693-9426, or visit www.pollyhillarboretum.org.  You may also email karin@pollyhillarboretum.org.

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