Dog Days: Artists Unleashed at Berkshire Botanical Garden
A new exhibition opening this weekend promises to be as amusing as the garden sheds show that was here earlier this season. This time Matt Larkin, the show’s curator, has invited a dozen art and design superstars to take something humble and make it into something that is not just special, but recognizably each artist’s own—a signature piece. The challenge is to turn a handful of willow whips into a dog form, then put it in a pot and add plants that will grow throughout the season. The resulting oversized topiary canines will be grouped throughout the Garden. where they will continue to grow (and frolic) through Labor Day.
The featured artists and designers come from widely disparate disciplines. Cynthia Atwood is a textile designer; Tom Borgese does floral arrangements for Martha Stewart Omnimedia; Susan Spencer Crowe fabricates objects from polychrome metal; artist Michael Gellatly is known for his erotic botanicals; Ryan Humphrey, whose BMX (bicycle motocross) sculpture has been shown at the Whitney Museum, did a recent star turn on Bravo’s “Top Design”; Stephan Lanphear, is the tattoo artist who, in 2002 fought to legalize his art in Massachusetts; and Mitch Nash is the product development whiz behind Blue Q.
The show’s opening celebration this Saturday will include an afternoon of pooch-related programs, with experts—a veterinarian, a groomer, a trainer, and someone from the Humane Society —on hand to share wisdom and advice. There will be a panel discussion and a question-and-answer period followed by obedience training demonstrations. There will be stuff to buy—hot dogs and tofu pups to eat and all of the dog topiaries are for sale to benefit the Garden. Understandably, it is requested that those attending leave their own dogs at home.
Berkshire Botanical Garden
Lenox
Opening reception, Saturday, July 17, 3 - 5 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 07/13/10 at 12:14 PM • Permalink
Lenox Garden Club’s 20th Annual House & Garden Tour
The Lenox Garden Club, which has been been around for 99 years, is more than a group of ladies who like to grow flowers and wear big straw hats as they troop around one another’s backyards. It’s a philanthropic organization that supports all sorts of local horticultural, educational and civic beautification projects. “We helped found the Berkshire Botanical Garden,” says president Mary Harrison, who notes that her group is the largest garden club in Berkshire Country. “We started the tour twenty years ago to restore Lilac Park. We put in $60,000 and we maintain the beds and the town maintains the green.” The garden club has provided funds for the Chinese Garden at Naumkeag, the Berkshire Botanical Garden‘s horticultural Interns Program and Winter Lecture Series, along with Great Barrington Housatonic River Walk, Elm Watch, Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, Hebert Arboretum at Springside Park, Ventfort Hall, Project Native, Habitat for Humanity, Bidwell House Museum, Lenox Library Association, Southern Berkshire Youth Association, Berkshire County Historical Society.
This year’s tour is centered in Stockbridge, and it includes six gardens, two carriage barns and the first floors of four of the houses. One house dates back to 1750, and its current owners have decorated it with 18th and 19th century antiques; the gardens also have a period feel with an herb garden surrounded by boxwood and a secret garden that is partially surrounded by the remaining foundation walls of a barn. Some properties are from the turn-of-the-last century such as Broad Meadows, an original Berkshire “cottage,” whose landscape has been meticulously restored since 1998 and now features nearly 100 specimen trees, a wild flower meadow, a vegetable garden, a cutting garden, a tennis court and a pool house. And there’s the relatively new 20-year-old house that belongs to the owners of Windy Hill Farm. Constructed from lumber harvested on the property, the timber frame house is surrounded by fieldstone patios, extensive vegetable gardens as well as stunning views of Mounument Mountain, Beartown Mountain, and Butternut Basin.
Lenox Garden Club House & Garden Tour
Saturday, July 10; 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Advance tickets ($35) are available at Campo de’ Fiori in Sheffield, Hammertown Barn in Great Barrington, and the Mary Stuart Collections in Lenox.
Day-of-tour tickers ($40) will be sold at the First Congegational Church of Stockbridge.
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 07/06/10 at 03:16 PM • Permalink
Spencertown Academy’s Hidden Gardens Tour
White garden, Lydia and Bernie Kukoff, Nassau
Some garden tours are strictly fantasy trips; others are more instructive. “People need to bring a pad and a pencil and a camera to this tour, because there are so many good ideas,” says Madaline Sparks, contributing gardening editor at Real Simple magazine. “There’s a lot of take-away for the plant lover, the hardscape lover, those interested in how to marry the garden to the architecture. Yet a beginner could take a portion of one of these gardens and say, ‘This is how I’m going to start.’” She is referring to this Saturday’s Spencertown Academy Hidden Gardens Tour, which Sparks, who also has a garden design, installation and maintenance business in Spencertown, helps organize. “There’s plenty of fantasy in these seven stops,” she say, “but there’s also a huge education in garden problem-solving.”
The seven properties on the tour, ranging from a “Pond Cottage” garden behind a charming 1770 house to a large-scale horticultural masterpiece featuring stunning white gardens, a kitchen garden, and wooded walking trails, are tucked away on the back roads of Old Chatham, Nassau, and Canaan, New York.. Another of the properties on the tour, Spruce Ridge Farm, a 48-acre alpaca farm in Old Chatham whose extensive gardens include a wildflower meadow, also will be the setting the night before the tour for a garden party, all part of a program to benefit the Academy.
Hidden Gardens Tour
Saturday, June 26 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tickets/$25, may be purchased in advance on-line or on the day of the tour at the Old Chatham Country Store
Advance ticket buyers may arrange for a boxed lunch ($15), that will be served in a pond-side setting not included in the standard tour.
Twilight in the Garden
Tickets/$50, advance sales only
Friday, June 25, 6 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 06/23/10 at 05:39 PM • Permalink
A Tour of Private Gardens Benefits Cornwall Library
Having one’s garden chosen for a charity tour must be, for the gardener, what a ticker tape parade is for a triumphant general. Glory reigns, all bloodshed—and with gardens as with war, there is always bloodshed; failsafe strategies that nonetheless go awry—momentarily forgotten. This Saturday, June 19, owners of eight private gardens in Litchfield County will throw open their gates and welcome ticket-bearing strangers, all in aid of the Cornwall Library, to be sure, but also as a salve to their calloused hands and bruised ambitions.
Take, for example, the beautiful Garmey garden shown above. Jane Garmey speaks for virtually all gardeners, when she says that, lovely as it is, her garden didn’t turn out quite as she planned. “It’s layout is a little more formal than I had originally intended,” she admits, “and the maintenance more intensive than I had anticipated. As a result, I am always looking for ways to make the garden more self-sustaining.”
Trouble is, just when the gardener thinks he’s got it all figured out, aesthetics at one with science, overnight everything can change. Another garden on the Cornwall tour had been a shade garden until 1989, when a tornado mowed down all the trees on an entire hillside. Suddenly, the garden was in full sun. In the twenty years that have elapsed since, many new trees have attained sufficient height that the plantings have had to be adapted to part sun/part shade.
Debbie Jones, another whose garden (above, photographed by Robert Fenton Houser) fell victim to a tornado says, “You will find my heart, soul and hard labor in the 9-year-old cottage garden with very uneven stone paths that wind around tornado tree stumps behind our 1836 Greek Revival house.”
Most of the eight gardens on the tour are in the country; one has a 30-mile view. In contrast, Michael Trapp’s garden, an intensively structured, multi-tiered space between the backdoor of his eponymous antiques and home furnishings shop in the West Cornwall shopping district and the banks of the Housatonic River, is a contained world of its own. Architectural fragments, cobblestone paths, narrow stairways, exotic follies, and unusual plant materials make this damp, mossy space seem as if it’s in another climate entirely, somewhere much older and more decadent than a classic covered-bridge New England town.
Gardens of Cornwall Tour - June 19
$25/tickets and maps available on the day of tour at
Cornwall Library
30 Pine Street, Cornwall, CT
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Post-tour cocktail party, 5 - 7 p.m.
$40/individual; $75/couples
Bottom two photographs by Robert Fenton Houser
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The Woman Behind Farm Girl Farm
When you meet Laura Meister you begin to understand how Farm Girl Farm got its name. On a recent Monday morning, the 42-year-old filmmaker turned farmer is working in a field of lettuces dressed in a very girly batik skirt and a frilly fuscia camisole. As a solo farmer who runs a CSA with 75 members and also sells vegetables to some 20 restaurants in our region (including the Woodland in Lakeville, Allium in Great Barrington and Brix in Pittsfield), she brings a fresh, post-feminist attitude to American agriculture. “I love working with chefs,” she says. “They’re artists, and I love seeing what they do with food.” She also likes encouraging backyard vegetable gardeners (who are often her former CSA members whom she’s inspired), which is why she is holding a seedling sale at the farm this Saturday, May 29, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. “After last year’s blight, I think it is crucial for people to know where their tomato plants come from,” she says. “I always over sow. I’ll have heirloom varieties in all colors and shapes. I’ll also have eggplants, sweet peppers, squash, swiss chard, lettuces, and bok choy.”
Meister describes herself as a stressed-out Type A city personality, who had an epiphany during college. While attending the University of Pennsylvania, she worked summers as a camp counselor at Farm & Wilderness in Vermont. “When I first stepped into Vermont was the moment I became who I am,” she says, although she would nonetheless return every fall to her “real life” in Philadelphia and eventually moved to Boston to work at the Museum of Fine Arts. “My specialty was the history of photography,” she says. In 2002, she enrolled in a filmmaking course called The Visionaries taught by Bill Mosher in Sheffield, MA. “I made short films about Moon on the Pond Farm and Sean Stanton, and for my final project I did a piece called Sweet Soil with Erica Spizz on the Berkshire Co-op Market‘s relationship with local farmers,” she says. “I had managed to intertwine the things I loved.”
She didn’t want to head back to Boston, so she began working once a week at Indian Line Farm and with Ted Dobson at Equinox Farm, and started growing vegetables in the backyard of the house she rented. “I was in denial for a while,” she says, laughing. “I kept thinking growing vegetables was a hobby.” At Indian Line, she became friends with an apprentice named Rory O’Dwyer, who enlisted Meister to join her in starting a new CSA farm. “I said, OK, I’ll help, and then I totally got into it.” When O’Dwyer dropped out because she had a serious case of mono, Meister made the decision to go it alone, which was an overwhelming challenge. “The thing I like to impress upon people is that I am a good example of doing it by doing it,” she says. “There will never be a time when everything is in place. Farming requires a leap of faith. You figure out things as you go because you must.”
Indeed, it was necessity that led to Meister’s supplying so many local restaurants. “We had tons of extra tomatoes and I didn’t know what to do with them all, so I started calling chefs,” says Meister, explaining that she knew which restaurants liked to buy local produce from working at Equinox Farm. “It’s become a very important relationship for me,” says Meister who accompanied the posse of Berkshire chefs who cooked at the James Beard House in New York City last fall. “I sang for my supper,” she says cheerfully. “I did the flowers for the tables.” Now, every Sunday during the growing season, Meister sends an availability list of produce to restaurants, caterers and stores such as Guido’s and the Co-op. Her intimate connection to Berkshire foodies has made her one of the best-loved farmers in the region. “Laura’s passion for farming is evident in her harvests,” says Brian Alberg, the executive chef of the Red Lion Inn. “I love buying from someone who actually believes that the chefs make her product more beautiful when in actuality it is her beautiful product that makes our lives as chefs more simple. Her way of farming, doing business and being involved in the community speaks loudly to her sustainable character.”
Farm Girl Farm Seedling Sale
Saturday, May 29; 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Pumpkin Hollow Road
N. Egremont, MA
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Gardening: Open Days Are Here Again
What a way to start the garden tour season: Margaret Roach and the Olmstead Brothers (not necessarily in that order; on the other hand, not necessarily not in that order). Two of the finest gardens in this or any other region will be open for touring on Saturday. Though very different, each is the work of a highly refined sensibility. One, the Olmsted Brothers firm-designed Cobble Pond Farm, is an estate whose garden infrastructure was established over eighty years ago by a landscape architecture firm headed by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park. Through thirty years of subsequent tending, the esteemed Olmstead Brothers firm had ample opportunity to fine tune their vision. The other, Margaret Roach’s cottage garden (above), represents two decades of thought by one inspired mind and work by a single pair of hands, those of the former Gardening Editor for Martha Stewart Living, now a full-time writer and gardening blogger. Roach’s focuses: good foliage and plants that attract wildlife.
But those aren’t the only properties on the Garden Conservancy’s roster of what they call “Open Days” (days when private properties are open to the public) this weekend. In Columbia County, there is also a 200-acre horse facility, Cricket Hill Farm, an 1844 house and barns with four acres of gardens. This property illustrates how a knowing interplay of scale and sight lines can maximize the advantages of borrowed landscape—four-season views of rolling hayfields, pastures, and woodlines. And in Litchfield, there is also a large, mountain-view property whose principal attraction at this time of year is its alpine garden.
For hours, addresses, driving instructions, etc., please visit the Garden Conservancy website.
Admission: $5 at each location; all proceeds go to the Gardens Conservancy
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 05/18/10 at 07:20 AM • Permalink
Trade Secrets: The Rare Plant & Antiques Fair Turns 10
Trade Secrets is not such a secret anymore. Like a well-tended garden, the rare plant and garden antiques sale grows lusher and more interesting every year, raising ever more money for Women’s Support Services, the not-for-profit agency that provides aid to victims of domestic violence in northwestern Connecticut and nearby towns in Massachusetts and New York. “It’s gratifying to see how it’s become a major event on gardeners’ calendars,” says Naomi Blumenthal of Alford, who helped found Trade Secrets in 2001 at interior designer Bunny Williams‘s property in Falls Village, CT, where she was then head gardener.
Trade Secrets, which is run entirely by volunteers, is both earthy and elegant—it has the well-cultivated ambiance of the sort of country fair you’d see featured in an English gardening magazine. For the fifth year in a row, it will be held at Elaine LaRoche’s Lion Rock Farm on Route 41 on the Sharon/Salisbury border. The nearly 60 vendors not only put aside special merchandise to bring to Trade Secrets but also take great care composing the vignettes in their tented booths. “We love participating in Trade Secrets—it’s an annual reunion of passionate plants people and experts who we know and admire,” says Bob Hyland of Loomis Creek Nursery. Indeed, Trade Secret veterans “love to reminisce about the second Trade Secrets at Bunny’s house when it snowed,” says Blumenthal. “If I could wish for anything it would be for good weather.”
But cold, wind and rain never deter competitive gardeners like Anne Bass, Carolyne Roehm, Martha Stewart, Oscar de la Renta, and Bunny Williams, who are usually among the early buyers and who ask probing questions of vendors such as David Burdick Daffodils and Glendale Botanicals. You can also shop for country antiques (from dealers such as Dawn Hill and Treillage), rare garden tomes (from Johnnycake Books), handmade clay pots (by Guy Wolff), and hand-wrought fences and plant supports by Battle Hill Forge).
Day Two of Trade Secrets is devoted to garden tours: By tradition, Bunny Williams’s beloved garden in Falls Village is included. The other three gardens are in Kent: Joan Larned’s features a walled garden and a rock garden; Monika and Buddy Nixon’s seven acres of ledge that are covered with undulating plantings; Jeffrey Morgan and Robert Couturier’s formal French garden on the shores of North Spectacle Lake.
Trade Secrets: A benefit for Women’s Support Services
Saturday May 15
Early Buying: 8 AM to 10 AM, $100 (includes continental breakfast)
Regular Admission: 10 AM - 3 PM, $35
Saturday afternoon lecture: “Abstraction; Art, Home & Landscape” with Tom Armstrong,1;30 p.m.
Sunday May 16
Garden Tours: 10 AM - 4 PM, $60 ($50 if purchased in advance)
Related posts:
Trade Secrets: The Ultimate Outdoor Shopping Party, May 16, 2009
Trade Secrets: Martha Stewart Makes the Scene, May 17, 2008
Nearby restaurants for lunch:
Country Bistro Salisbury
Harney Tea Salon Millerton
Toymakers Cafe Falls Village
White Hart Inn Salisbury
Woodland Lakeville
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Posted by Dan Shaw on 05/12/10 at 04:55 PM • Permalink
Just in Time for Spring, the New, Improved Ward’s Nursery
There’s always good reason to stop by Ward’s Nursery in Great Barrington, perhaps the largest and most ambitious gardener’s resource in our district, especially on a Saturday in springtime when the chances of bumping into the nursery’s affable founder Don Ward, Jr. are better than usual. Don (below, goofing around in an old photograph) long ago handed the reigns to his sons Mike and Greg, but, as every plant-lover knows, garden centers have a gravitational pull all their own on spring Saturdays. Especially at Ward’s this week, when they officially cut the ribbon on a renovation that has been in the works for over a decade.
“About twelve years ago, we decided the whole site had to be redesigned,” says Mike Ward. Since its founding 1957, Ward’s had grown, one awkward add-on at a time. “The problem with add-ons is they create walls where you don’t want them,” says Mike. With the help of architect Anthony Barnaba of Blueline Design, the Wards came up with a master plan, the first couple of phases of which (moving the driveway and adding a 10,000 square foot greenhouse in back) were accomplished some years ago. This Saturday’s celebration honors the impressive final phase completed over the past winter—updates of the counter and houseplant areas and, among other improvements, adding an additional 4,500 square feet of display space that profoundly impacts the impression the store makes from the road. “Before people would drive by and maybe not know what business we were in,” says Mike. “It may have looked more like a farm stand than a plant nursery.”
Not anymore. With double greenhouses facing the road, Ward’s purpose is unmistakable. Inside, the only solid wall separating the various departments is made of glass, which has the double benefit of opening sight lines even as it permits daylight to penetrate to the center of the building, reducing dependence on artificial light. This is but one of many new “green” features—radiant heat fueled by natural gas, a rainwater collection system, new recyclable glass replacing old petroleum-based plastic in the greenhouses. The upshot: despite additional space that brings the footprint up to approximately 20,000 square feet, the store’s carbon imprint and its operating costs are reduced. (Solar panels are still in the works.)
More space, naturally, means even more plants. Ward’s has always led the pack in their selection of tropical indoor plants (where else around here can you find a Meyer lemon tree?); now there’s space for still more. In fact, according to Mike (far left with his brother Greg), “There will be a little bit more of every plant category, as well as more outdoor furniture and other patio items.” As if further enticement were required, the first fifty gardeners who turn up on Saturday will be rewarded with a gift.
Ward’s Nursery and Garden Center
600 Main Street,Great Barrington; 413.528.2884
Open year ‘round; July - April, 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
May & June, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 05/09/10 at 11:59 AM • Permalink
Garden Sheds: Luxuriating in Nature
Say, “garden shed,” and what leaps to this earthbound mind is a humble structure with plenty of hooks and bins to store the arsenal it takes to bend nature to (wo)man’s will. Apparently, that is not at all what Berkshire Botanical Garden trustee Matt Larkin meant when he asked a handful of design professionals to each take a humble garden shed and, in one week, transform it into something so wonderful it could remain on view for the entire season. The goal, according to BBG Executive Director Molly Boxer, was to illustrate, “how we can live in nature with style and a touch of whimsy.” Whether a touch or a truckload, whimsy is the tie that binds the five sheds together. Each has been masterfully upholstered, shingled, thatched, painted, fenestrated, retro-fitted, and otherwise bent to its designer’s will. The results, including Sarah and Peter Thorne’s “Berkshire Artist’s Retreat” (above), are pure delight. The photograph above and the one just below are by Reinout van Wagtendonk @ Berkshots.com.
Swedish Reading Retreat
Annie Selke of Pine Cone Hill in Lenox, had her shed hauled to her trusty carpentry shop, where the carpenters raised its roof to make room for clerestory windows all around, then poked a cupola into the peak. Selke also asked them to install solar-powered lighting in the cupola so it would be illuminated at night. Inside, book and magazine holders are tucked between studs, and two cushy banquette-style daybeds covered in pale fabrics await readers.
Berkshire Artist’s Hideaway
Sarah and Peter Thorne, designers from West Stockbridge, created a retreat for a mythical Berkshire artist, then filled it, aptly enough, with furnishings and art made by actual Berkshire artists and artisans. Like the rest of the sheds, the Thornes’ may be won via silent auction. Bids open at $5,000. For those determined to win, $10,000 will halt the bidding.
Garden Blogger’s Retreat
Michael Devine of Michael Devine Home, purveyors of handprinted fabrics and accessories, has given his shed an Anglo-American twist, starting at the peak of the thatched roof with a pair of whippet effigies. The antiques-and-pale-fabric-filled interior suggest the sort of blogger who likes to tend to her toilette, then slip into suitable couture before committing flowery thoughts to computer screen. The winning bidder on this chic shed will get the dogs and the building, including the mirrors and yards and yards of curtains. The furniture, however, must be purchased separately.
18th Century Privy
Designers Dick Bories and James Shearron of Bories and Shearron, dug into the neo-classical bag of tricks to solve a problem as old as gardening itself—how to dignify the loo. To bring the exterior of their outhouse up to snuff, they added a cedar shake hip roof, articulated corner quoins and skirting boards. Inside, a floor-to-ceiling divided light and quality brass fittings elevate their 4-holer to a Jeffersonian ideal. An alternative use of the shed, as suggested by Matt Larkin: Close all lids, force yourself to forget what’s under there, and pull in a table. Voila! a dinner party setting out of a dream.
Adirondack Treehouse
Set designer Chase Booth, lately of Domino Magazine, seems to have had a stylish hermit, or perhaps a Buddhist on retreat, in mind when he designed his shed. Booth covered the floor with pine needles, making the structure seem as if it were growing out of the earth. This illusion is furthered by a ceiling of birch logs and outside a roof lost in a tangle of twigs. An enigmatic rear “window” is all mirrors and mullions obscured by staghorn ferns. However, inside, the window does not exist—all the better for looking inward?
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 05/03/10 at 03:25 AM • Permalink
Berkshire Botanical Garden & Olana Hold Plant Sales Plus
This weekend some of us get to play the Mom card. And what better way than by acquiring plants—something to love and nurture through that early, iffy period that doesn’t then up and leave once it finally gets fabulous. Two special sales, one at the Berkshire Botanical Garden, the other at Olana, vie for our attention. If we play that card right, we get to go to both.
Buyers at the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Friday/Saturday event can choose from thousands of annuals, perennials, wildflowers, ferns, grasses, ground covers, vines, shrubs, trees—all pre-screened for viability in our region. There will be Gardens-in-a-Box, hanging baskets, pre-planted containers for sun and shade, pre-planted pots of succulents, and mini potagers of lettuce and herbs. Compost from Holiday Farm in Dalton, MA will be sold by the bag, and there will even be a special selection of “Celebrity Plants” from the gardens and greenhouses of local luminaries—Karen Allen, Jim Bouton, Marge Champion, Dick Button, Peter Serkin, and Margaret Roach. Garden staffers and knowledgeable volunteers will be on hand to assist, answer questions, and provide practical gardening advice. Says director of horticulture, Dorthe Hviid, “We’re promoting hard-working plants that can withstand the often challenging growing conditions found in the Berkshires—workhorses such as Leucanthemum, Agastache, Hydrangea paniculata, Calycanthus, Daylilys, Hosta, Iris, Geranium, Amelanchier, Cotinus, Clematis, and Viburnum. Combined in mixed borders, these tree and shrub shapes not only provide winter interest, they give permanent height, scale, and texture to traditional perennial beds.” In addition to plants, there will be vendors offering garden accessories and seasonal specialty foods, plus a Garden Tag Sale of pre-owned tools, pots, gardening books and cookbooks. On Friday, Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery will give a talk on rare plants.
Berkshire Botanical Garden’s 33rd Annual Plant Sale
Routes 102 at Route 183
Stockbridge, MA
Friday, May 7, 8 - 11 a.m. Early Buying (members only)
Friday, May 7, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Open Buying
Talk by Adam Wheeler, Broken Arrow Nursery , Friday, 1 p.m.; $30
Saturday, May 8, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Open Buying
Members receive a 10% discount. Memberships, which may be purchased or renewed the day of the sale, start at $45
Refreshments available.
Then on Sunday at Olana’s Mother’s Day Plant Lecture, Bob Hyland, co-owner and principal of Loomis Creek Nursery, in Claverack outside of Hudson, will give an instructive talk on the art of designing garden borders for sun and shade, followed by a sale of “Olana inspired” plants, in the distinctive Loomis Creek palette. Families are encouraged to make a day of it, to picnic and participate in Olana’s free public programs.
Olana’s Mother’s Day Plant Sale & Talk
5720 State Route 9G, (south of) Hudson; 518.828.0135
Lecture: noon, followed by an early-buying opportunity. Please pre-register with .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Plant sale: 1 - 4 p.m.
No pre-registration required.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 05/01/10 at 07:39 AM • Permalink
