By Derek Lirange The Worcester Tree Initiative recently began its ninth watering season with our Young Adult Forestry (YAF) Program. We will water at least 400 trees each week – in city planting strips, in parks, and other public planting locations. Additionally, we will care for the Franklin Street Traffic Island, the WWI Memorial Grove Trees [...]
By Derek Lirange Youth members of the Shriver Job Corps of Devens, Mass., along with New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s Worcester Tree Initiative Volunteer Tree Stewards and Members of our Open Sky volunteer group, recently finished the second tree nursery gravel bed at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s Urban Tree [...]
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s Worcester Tree Initiative Department planted its last tree of the spring season on June 10 at the Highland House Apartments as a memorial for Kathleen Phelan, the daughter of Ed and Gerry McGovern and cousin to Congressman and WTI cofounder James P. McGovern. Ed and Gerry are residents [...]
By Robert Burgess New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill staff If you've visited New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill before, you know it is a must-see New England destination. But did you know that New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is much more than a pretty place? Staff, volunteers, donors, and [...]
On Friday, May 30, New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill partnered with Congressman James P. McGovern, Clark University, Mass Audubon, and Park Spirit to lead a walk in Hadwen Arboretum, a wooded property extending from the corner of May and Lovell Street to the end of Englewood Ave in the Columbus Park Neighborhood. Sixth grade [...]
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is Growing Boldly! Please enjoy this short video about the Garden and the many ways in which we are working to make the world a better place by connecting more people with plants and nature. New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill Botanic Garden Today Spanning 171 [...]
