Garden Tours New England
Your go-to source of information for community garden tours, garden events and public gardens throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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If you're like me, you love going to garden tours in your local communities as well as those more far afield. Generally, you hear about a tour from a friend or you've read a notice in the local paper, in a magazine, or even a notice taped to a store front window. In other words, pure happenstance leads you to a garden tour. With Garden Tours New England, you don't have to depend upon chance anymore!
This site is designed to be your go-to source of information – an online kiosk - for community garden tours and events throughout New England. We gather this information and present it in a way that is most useful to you, such as showing the location on Google™ maps. If you learn of a tour or event not listed, please feel free to submit information or contact us.
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Mother's Day at Tower Hill Botanical Garden - May 13, 2012
I think it was a record turnout for Mother's Day at Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts. The traffic was backed up at the entrance by one o'clock. But it was well worth the wait given the glorious weather.
Tower Hill was started in 1986 by the Worcester County Horticultural Society, the third oldest active horticultural society in the United States, after the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Horticultural Societies. For 150 years, the Worcester County Horticultural Society, which was started in 1842, held its flower shows and educational programs in downtown Worcester.
Then in the 1980's, John Trexler looked at over twenty sites to find a new home for the society and found it at the Carter estate, whose owners wanted it to remain in its natural state, free from development. The society purchased the 132-acre property for...
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