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  • Friday to Sunday, April 30 – May 2, 10-5 – Arbor Day Weekend at Tower Hill

    Celebrate Arbor Day at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts.  The first twenty five first time visitors will receive a free tree sapling.  Tree plantings and tours will occur each day at 2 pm.  The Gift Shop will be having a 20% off sale on everything they carry.  On Friday and Sunday at noon, arborist Joe Biagioni will give a one hour pruning demonstration – meet at the Entry Garden and dress for weather.  Also there will be a variety of childrens’ activities, including a scavenger hunt.  For more information and directions, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Saturday, April 24, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Create a Mini Bog

    Instructor Priscilla Purinton of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society will conduct a hands-on workshop at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, April 24, from 1 – 3 pm.  Priscilla will be a featured speaker of The Garden Club of the Back Bay in November, 2010, and here is a chance to get down and dirty with her! Create a miniature bog habitat for your garden or patio with rare and interesting plants.  Bogs are unique habitats saturated with acidic, low nutrient water that would spell death for most plants.  However, they support a surprising diversity of unique flora that can grow nowhere else.  Wow your friends with this most unusual container garden filled with carnivorous plants, rushes and other bog endemics.  Participants will be provided with all materials and plants, and will learn how to create a good soil mix, what plants do well (and why) in bog situations, and will also learn how to keep the mini bog flourishing for years.  Tower Hill member price $40, non-members $43.  To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • 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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  • Sunday, April 11, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Tower Hill Botanic Garden Spring Open House

    On Sunday, April 11, from 10 – 5, enjoy free admission to Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts all day.  This is a perfect opportunity to introduce friends and family to the Garden, while browsing the newly renovated Gift Shop and having a delightful lunch at Twigs Cafe.  See the newly renovated Reception Hall and gift shop, the first part of Phase IV development to be completed at Tower Hill, and acquire information on classes, volunteering, membership and rentals.  Learn about upcoming special events and activities.  For more information, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Saturday, March 20, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm – The Changing American Flower Garden: Bringing Color, Fragrance and New Attitudes Home

    Attend a one day symposium sponsored by the Rotch Jones Duff House in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Saturday, March 20, beginning at 8:30 am and concluding at 3:30 pm.  In celebration of the RJD landscape, this symposium, the first of a three year landscape series exploring changing tastes in gardening in the 19th and 20th centuries, will focus on flower gardens.

    Landscape designer and worldwide garden traveler Nan Sinton explores two centuries of the influences on American flower gardening as she shows how attitudes regarding spaces have evolved in her talk entitled “What Were They Thinking?”  Gardener, author, lecturer and long time instructor at New York Botanical Garden, Keynote Speaker Page Dickey, author of Dogs in Their Gardens,  invites gardeners to discover how the floral bounty of meadows and natural places can be brought home to even the tiniest space in her illustrated lecture, “Bringing Wildness into the Garden”, followed by a book signing.  Later, Joann Vieira, Director of Horticulture at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, who leads the planning and planting of the extensive gardens and dynamic indoor and outdoor container displays there, will reveal which flowers she chooses for an extended season of bloom in “Tradition Meets Experiment: The Best Plants for a Flourishing Flower Garden.”  Following these presentations, there will be time for informal questions with the speakers.  Registration at The Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, 396 County Road, New Bedford, Massachusetts, begins at 8:30 am, and the program cost of $65 per person (members of the sponsor Rotch Jones Duff House) or $75 (nonmembers) includes lunch.  For more information, or to purchase tickets, call 508-997-1401, or log on to www.rjdmuseum.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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  • Thursday, March 18, 4:00 pm – 169th Annual Meeting of the Worcester County Horticultural Society

    Plan to attend the 169th Annual Meeting of the Worcester County Horticultural Society on Thursday, March 18, beginning at 4 pm, at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, Boylston, Massachusetts, with special guest speaker Dr. Robert Bertin, Biology Department Chair, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, speaking on Plant Species Native to Worcester County.  The lecture, and a reception to follow, will be preceded by the WCHS business meeting.  Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres by Twigs Cafe.  You may respond by calling 508-869-6111, x 136, or by logging on to the special events page at www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Sunday, March 28, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – Tower Hill Botanic Garden Spring Open House

    On Sunday, March 28, from 10 – 5, enjoy free admission to Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts all day.  This is a perfect opportunity to introduce friends and family to the Garden, while browsing the newly renovated Gift Shop and have a delightful lunch at Twigs Cafe.  See the new Reception Hall, acquire information on classes, volunteering, membership and rentals.  Learn about upcoming special events and activities.  For more information, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Tuesday, March 23, 7:00 – 9:30 pm – A Feast for the Senses Preview Party

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden, The Trustees of Reservations, and the New England Wild Flower Society invite you to preview the new Boston Flower & Garden Show on Tuesday, March 23, from 7 – 9:30 pm at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston.  As the season’s first blossoms mix with fresh warm earth, pussy willows, and the gentle ripple of streams, the promise of Spring will greet you like a convivial maitre d’.  (That is the purple prose of the invitation, may we point out)  Proceeds from the evening will be shared by Tower Hill and NEWFS, and you may buy tickets ($75 each) on line at three web sites:  www.newenglandwild.org, www.thetrustees.org, and www.towerhillbg.org.   The Preview Party is sponsored by Paragon Group and Stonewall Kitchen Cooking School.  With each ticket purchased, receive a cooking class certificate, up to a $50 value.  You just can’t lose!

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  • Saturday, February 20 – Sunday, February 21, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm – 181st Annual Massachusetts Camellia Society Exhibit & Sale

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts, will be the site of the 181st Annual Massachusetts Camellia Society Exhibit and Sale, Saturday & Sunday, February 20th and 21st, from 10 am – 5 pm.  The exhibit will showcase the alluring flowers of Camellia japonica, member of the tea family.  The Massachusetts Camellia Society, one of the oldest plant societies in the United States, will present thousands of gorgeous Camellia flowers at the peak of their display – both on the Camellia trees themselves, part of Tower Hill’s own collection, and also in bowls of floating blossoms from private collections.  This is a perfect way to spend a winter day in the subtropical greenery of the Orangerie.  Enjoy an informative tour with tips on Camellia culture each day of the show.  For more information, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.