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  • Saturday, July 15, 9:45 am – 4:00 pm – The Mountain Garden Walks Tour

    The Mountain Garden Walks tour for July 2023 features six lovely Vermont gardens, all beautifully integrated into their unique properties and scaled to fit the landscapes.  The tour offers a variety of size of properties: two are large with extensive perennial gardens, brooks and ponds with meadow and mountain vistas, while another features small gardens closely surrounding a charming, old country house.  Stone walls and terraces as well as evergreen tree lines provide unique backdrops for these wonderful gardens.  

    Some of the gardens are the personal designs of the owners, reflecting their own character, although others are carefully maintained professional designs.  Three of the gardens are within walking distance of each other in the lovely Landgrove Valley, and the other two are only a short drive away.  Our tour booklet will include a brief history of the valley and its early inhabitants.  This tour will offer inspiration and beauty to both the avid gardener and the viewer simply out for a summer stroll. 

    Garden tours in the “mountain towns” have a special setting with vistas of Bromley, Stratton and Magic (Glebe) mountains from every property. Gardens build on these vistas, each one presenting a unique and inviting landscape of stone walls, woodlands, perennials and wildflower gardens. ​All proceeds go to Green Mountain Gardeners Lib Thieme Scholarship Fund. $30. Tickets are available online through Eventbrite by clicking HERE.

  • Saturday, June 26, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Tour of Bill Noble’s Vermont Garden

    Author and garden designer Bill Noble will lead participants on a June 26 Berkshire Botanical Garden tour of his celebrated Vermont garden, which surrounds an 1830s Vermont farmhouse and barn, with stone walls, fields and views of neighboring farms and distant mountains. The garden reflects Bill’s horticultural path from market gardener to garden designer. The garden features a bountiful perennial garden, vegetable garden and orchard, rock gardens and shrub borders, surrounded by fields and meadows. The focal point is a mixed border of shrubs and hardy perennials, while remnants of barn foundations offer a setting for alpines, ferns, ornamental grasses and shrubs. Foliage and texture predominate. The garden is an ongoing experiment with plants and ideas gathered from other gardens and gardeners. It is the subject of Noble’s book, Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden, published in June, 2020 by Timber Press. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. Refreshments will be provided on-site. Participants are responsible for their own transportation and will receive the address upon registration. BBG members $65, nonmembers $70. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/tour-bill-noble%E2%80%99s-vermont-garden

  • Sunday, July 10, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – 15th Annual Flynn Garden Tour

    Friends of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts brought its renowned Flynn Garden Tour back home to Burlington in July 2010 for a look at a variety of exceptional private gardens. Tour goers enjoyed garden talks, lunch, afternoon tea, and a raffle, all while helping support the Flynn’s work with schoolchildren.  This year’s tour on Sunday, July 10, will focus on St. Albans, Vermont.  Tickets ($35 in advance and $37 on the day of the event) go on sale May 31, and more information may be found at www.flynncenter.org, or by calling Gina Haddock at 802-652-4533, or emailing her at rhaddock@flynncenter.org.

  • Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26 – Stowe Garden Festival

    Here’s a good excuse, if you need one, to experience the natural beauty that Stowe has to offer during the summer months. From Friday, June 24 through Sunday, June 26, you’ll get the opportunity to enjoy a number of local gardens open for public viewing; one- and two-day passes are available. Visit the Trapp Family Lodge Garden with its annual and perennial beds and greenhouse, the Historic Greatwood Estate Garden located at the Golden Eagle Resort, the inviting butterfly garden at Topnotch Resort and Spa, and the aromatic herb garden at Stoweflake Mountain Resort.  Day pass costs $10, a Two Day pass is $15, and a Weekend pass is $25.  Log on to www.stowegardenfestival.com to purchase tickets, and for additional information.  You may also email info@stowegardenfestival.com.

  • Thursday, August 12, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm – Vermont Festival of the Arts Garden Tour

    Thursday, August 12, 9 – 4, is the time to be in the Waitsfield, Vermont area to enjoy the Vermont Festival of the Arts Garden Tour, which will begin at the Big Picture Theater and Cafe on Carroll Road.  The $45 ticket includes lunch at Timbers.  Take a tour of beautiful Sugarbush area gardens and watch as artists capture each one on canvas.  Gardens will be in full bloom in August, and the painters will take their inspiration from the surroundings.  Learn what grows where, and enjoy a wonderful lunch amidst fleur-de-art.  The tour organizers will take you around in a big yellow school bus – it’s like summer camp for adults.  Assemble at 8:30.  Call Bev Kehoe at  802-496-6682 to buy tickets, and for more information.  You may also email info@vermontartfest.com.

    August is Art!