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I’m happy to introduce you to a new section of this website – Public Gardens in New England. Until I started researching this topic, I never realized just how many gardens are open to the public in the New England … Continue reading →

Sunday, March 4th was a fine day for driving down to see the Worcester Flower & Patio Show after a week of snowy weather. At the entrance were the winning flower arrangements of the show’s competition as well as this … Continue reading →

Photo gallery Eager to enjoy flowers other than what’s in the supermarkets, I visited the Lyman Estate Greenhouses in Waltham, Massachusetts to see their camellias that are now in full bloom. Amazingly, the camellia house dates back to 1820 when … Continue reading →

This year marked the tenth anniversary of the Flora in Winter event at the Worcester Art Museum. As part of this event, several special festivities and lectures were offered to the public. One of these events was a floral demonstration … Continue reading →

On Saturday the 21st, I went to the Toadstool Bookstore in Peterborough, New Hampshire to hear Jane Roy Brown discuss a book she coauthored with Susan Haltom called One Writer’s Garden. It’s about Eudora Welty’s garden at her home in … Continue reading →

Photo gallery I took advantage of the continuing marvelous summer weather at the beginning of this month to take a day trip to Eagle Island in Casco Bay, Maine. We set out on a little ferry with Portland Discovery Land … Continue reading →

Photo gallery It is believed that the garden at the Old Manse was a wedding present from Henry David Thoreau to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. Planted in 1842, it has been a continuously cultivated garden for … Continue reading →

Photo gallery At Tarbin Gardens in Franklin, New Hampshire, you will see plants, shrubs, and trees that you may not see elsewhere in northern New England. Besides the amazing variety of flora, there’s also a wildness about these gardens that … Continue reading →

Photo gallery Looking at this tranquil view of the Salmon Falls River, it’s hard to imagine the shore lined with busy wharves and tall masted ships sailing in and out of the harbor . Yet this was the scene in … Continue reading →

Photo gallery Miles of tree-lined back country roads define the bucolic essence of Jaffrey. While Hingham and Cohasset awe the visitor with the grandeur of its homes and estates, Jaffrey’s beauty resides in its unspoiled landscape of woods, fields, ponds, … Continue reading →