Visit Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston on Saturday, July 10, and view the New England Daylily Society’s judged exhibition. Log on to www.towerhillbg.org for directions, or visit www.nedaylily.org for more information. Admission is free with Botanic Garden entry.  There will be daylily plants available for purchase.
Bring your seed catalogues to the Natick Community Organic Farm on Thursday, February 25, from 7:30 – 9:00 pm, for an informative evening around the wood stove with Natick Community Organic Farm Assistant Director Jean-Claude Bourrut. You will talk about variety choices suited for your garden, and will learn to read between the lines of glossy descriptions. Does “foolproof” mean invasive? Does “full sun” mean you’d better plant it in Florida? Does “mildew resistant” mean it will be covered in white powder if you don’t thin 90% of the planting? The cost for all this information will be $27, and you may sign up at www.bcae.org.
On Monday, August 31, come to a fabulous collaboration between Bay End Farm in Buzzards Bay and The Blue Room in Cambridge. Know your roots! Go back to the “farm to table” movement – the Bay End Farm is putting one long table back in the middle of the farm. Join them amidst the beautiful farm of organic vegetables. You will be sitting anywhere from just a few feet to a few miles from where your dinner will be sourced and only yards from where it will be prepared. The hosts will be setting up the table out in the field and under the sun on a gorgeous late afternoon to feast on what the earth has offered. A farm tour begins at 3 pm, and the four course menu paired with organic wines dinner begins at 4. Cost is $75 per person ($65 if a Bay End Farm CSA member), and please note this is a bring your own plate event. The Blue Room chef Jorge Lopes will present his best work, and all proceeds from the dinner will facilitate Bay End Farm’s efforts to build their farm stand kitchen.
Click here to make RESERVATIONS online. You will be directed to the Blue Room’s reservation page – book for 3 PM. Or you may call 617-494-9034 for directions and to reserve.
Visit Tower Hill Botanic Garden and view the New England Daylily Society’s judged exhibition. Log on to www.towerhillbg.org for directions, or visit www.nedaylily.org for more information. The schedule is as follows:
11:00 – 11:40 “Got Sun? Go Daylilies!†presented by Sandra Schaider. See their beauty and endless variety, learn about their easy care and propagation, the fun of cross pollinating and growing from seed… all in a series of extraordinary photographs.
11:45 – 12:20 “Local Treasures†presented by Mike Huben, hybridizer
12:25 – 12:50 “Propagation by Division†shown by Denise Pavlovich
12:55 Raffle drawing for free plants and membership to the daylily society
1:00 – 5:00 “Judged Exhibition” features New England’s prize daylilies.
Delight in a festive evening amongst the gardens of Naumkeag – a National Historic Landmark and one of the most beautiful views in New England! Stroll through the world-famous gardens sparkling with fireflies. Feast on hors d’oeuvres and sip on cocktails while watching the sun set behind the Berkshire Hills. Bid on the best of the Berkshires at the silent and live auctions. All proceeds support restoration of Naumkeag’s historic kitchen.
Naumkeag was the summer “cottage” of the Choate family who began summering in Berkshire County in the 1870s. Designed by McKim, Mead & White in 1885, this forty-four-room, shingle-style house is filled with original furniture, ceramics, and artwork collected from America, Europe, and the Far East. Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917) was a prominent New York attorney. Between 1899 and 1905, he served in England as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
Naumkeag is famous for its eight acres of terraced gardens and landscaped grounds surrounded by forty acres of woodland, meadow, and pasture that stretch to the Housatonic River Valley. The gardens and landscaped grounds, first designed in the late 1880s by Nathan Barrett, were transformed and expanded between 1926 and 1956 by Fletcher Steele and Mabel Choate. Separate garden “rooms” include the Afternoon Garden, Tree Peony Terrace, Rose Garden, Evergreen Garden, Chinese Garden, Arborvitae Walk, and Linden Walk. Perhaps the most famous feature of the landscape is Steele’s Blue Steps, a series of deep blue fountain pools flanked by four flights of stairs climbing up a gentle hillside and overhung by birch trees.
Fees: $100 per ticket for members, $140 non-members (includes one year individual membership); $250 for a non-member couple (includes one year family membership)
Notes: Call for event details and reservation information. Tickets must be purchased in advance.
Telephone: 413-298-3239 x3000
E-mail: westregion@ttor.org
| “Beauty and the Best ” Art Exhibition and Sale features 33 art works displayed at the Old Mill, West Tisbury with flower arrangements designed and executed by the Garden Club members. General admission Sat., June 27 10am to 5pm and Sunday June 28 10am to 2pm. Daily tickets $5. Children under 12 free Benefit for Garden Club community projects and scholarship Admission Fee: $5-$20; under 12 free |
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