Tower Hill Botanic Garden is the setting for this examination of the rose on Sunday, June 27, from 12 noon until 5 pm. See extraordinary specimens of fragrant and lush roses at this popular annual exhibition, sponsored by the Massachusetts Rose Society. Vendors will be on hand selling rose bushes and miniature roses. Admission is free for City Spaces/Country Places ticket holders, or free with admission to Tower Hill. To learn more, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.
The 18th Annual New Bedford Preservation Society Annual Holiday House Tour will take place on Saturday, December 5, from 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm (Candlelight Tour) and on Sunday, December 6, from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Afternoon Tour).
Come visit beautifully restored historic 19th Century homes, all decked out for the holidays. Read About Last Year’s Tour!
Start at the Wamsutta Club, 427 County Street, New Bedford.
Pre-tour brunch ($15) on Sunday from 11:30am-1pm(reservations recommended, call 508.997.7431)
Holiday Raffle will be held at the club during tour hours. Advance tickets: $19; $17 Society Members
At the door, ALL tickets: $23
Tickets go on sale mid-November at the following locations: Elaine’s at the Black Whale, New York Shoe Repair, The Surrey Shoppe, Periwinkles, Baker Books, Davoll’s General Store, The Ultimate Touch, The Woodhouse Shop, Roseland Nursery and the Marion General Store.
Say goodbye to the season at Garden in the Woods in Framingham with a candlelit stroll through parts of the garden on Wednesday, October 21, from 5 – 7 pm. This is a New England Wild Flower Society members only event, but annual membership levels begin at $50, and entitle you to a host of benefits, which can be found on the web site, www.newfs.org. Make your reservation for this lovely evening by calling 508-877-7630, ext. 3001, or email information@newenglandwild.org. The Cabot Creamery Cooperative has donated cheese for this event. If you are interested in gardens at nightfall, we recommend Linda Rutenberg’s beautifully photographed book The Garden at Night.
Join the Preservation Society of Newport County on Wednesday, October 7 at 11 a.m. at Rosecliff, 548 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island for a lecture by Mack Woodward, Senior Architectural Historian of the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission.
Ocean Drive is one of the most significant picturesque landscapes in America. Recent research has revealed just how important this historic place is in our nation’s landscape history. This lecture will focus on the layout of the Drive itself, the masterful development of the entire district in the late 19th century, its comparison with similar picturesque sites, and how critics of the time responded to the planning of the area.
Admission free to Preservation Society members, general admission $5. Advance registration requested.
Register online, or call (401) 847-1000 ext. 154.
The award winning New England Carnivorous Plant Society (NECPS) will again be hosting the Fall Carnivorous Plant Show at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Plant lovers and all those who enjoy something different will be able to get up close to hundreds of carnivorous plants exhibited by members of the NECPS.
Featured plants will include pitcher plants from Malaysia with traps the size of softballs that are capable of eating lizards and mice. There will be sundews from Australia ranging from the size of a dime to 12+ inches high, and the ever-popular Venus Fly Trap. For you native plant lovers, NECPS will also display carnivorous plants that grow locally throughout New England. This is the largest collection of carnivorous plants displayed yearly on the East Coast and the most popular show at the Botanical Center. Over 300 plants are scheduled to be on display.
Free seminars on growing and feeding carnivorous plants will be offered, and there are lots of opportunities for photographers. Visit the Venus Fly Trap feeding area where you can observe up close how these plants devour insects. Plants and growing accessories will be available for purchase for both novice and experienced growers from carnivorous plant vendors and the NECPS. The permanent carnivorous plant bog exhibit will also be available for viewing. Society members will be present both days to explain how the plants feed, what they eat, where they live, and how they can be grown and enjoyed at home. Admission to the show is free with the purchase of regular admission to the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center : $3 adults, $1 children 6 – 12, under 6 free. The show will run on Saturday September 26 from 11:00 am until 4:00 pm, and on Sunday September 27 from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. The address is 1000 Elmwood Avenue in Providence. For additional information, please visit www.NECPS.org, or email johnatthebeach@cox.net.
Travel down to Green Animals Topiary Garden on Saturday, September 19, from 10 – 5, for a day of scarecrow building, kids’ crafts, storytelling, local produce, artisan fair, and live music. The third annual Fall Family Festival takes place at 380 Cory’s Lane in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Cindy Killavey will enthrall children from 2 – 3 pm. $12 for adults, $4.50 for children 6 – 17. Preservation Society members and all children under 6 enter free. For additional information and directions, log on to www.newportmansions.org.
The Trustees of Reservations is sponsoring an illustrated lecture and workshop at Long Hill Horticultural Center in Beverly, Massachusetts on Tuesday, September 15, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. You’ll learn how to artfully combine shrubs and small trees with a selection of perennial and annual herbaceous plants, and to create a border garden with four seasons of beauty. Horticulturist and landscape designer Laura Eisner will illustrate basic design principles you can apply to planning and planting a mixed border of any size and shape. Also covered will be a range of native North American plants that thrive in borders. Along with plant attributes and drawbacks, Laura will talk about those difficult areas where your plants never seem to thrive and she will discuss which plants will do well there. Co-sponsored with the New England Wild Flower Society. Members of the Trusees or NEWFS $25, nonmembers $30. Registration required. Contact bzschau@ttor.org. Log on to www.thetrustees.org for directions.
‘Gardens Private and Personal,’  the second program in the Gardens and Art Lecture Series, will be held on Tuesday, August 4, at 5:30 p.m., at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine. Author Nancy D’Oench will present an illustrated program based on the Garden Club of America book she helped create. She will also sign copies of the book.
Gardens Private and Personal celebrates 100 years of the Garden Club of America. Nancy D’Oench has written an exquisite book about more than 90 gardens from all around the United States, including Maine. Photographs are by Mick Hales, one of the world’s leading garden photographers; and gardening expert Bonny Martin was the project’s coordinator.
The book is organized according to parts of the garden – entryways, herbaceous borders, water features, hedges, etc. – with exquisite pictures accompanied by insightful commentaries and extended captions. Quotations from the owners, dedicated gardeners all, offer an additional source of inspiration to any garden lover. Nancy D’Oench of Portland, Connecticut, is a writer, award-winning flower arranger, lecturer, flower-show judge, and longtime member of the Garden Club of America.
The fee for the presentation is $10 for Maine Botanical Society members or $15 for non-members Pre-registration is suggested, either on-line at www.mainegardens.org, or by calling (207) 633-4333.
Tower Hill Botanic Garden is the setting for this examination of the rose. At 1 pm there will be a question and answer session on rose care with “The Rose Doctor” Manny Mendes. At 3 pm stay for “Easy Care Roses for our New England Climate” with Rose Society members. Vendors will be on hand selling rose bushes and miniature roses. Admission is free for City Spaces/Country Places ticket holders, or free with admission to Tower Hill. To learn more, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.
