We are pleased to announce that New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill CEO Grace Elton has been named to the Worcester Business Journal's 2019 Power 50 list. The Power 50 list highlights the Central Massachusetts economy's most influential leaders. "To make the Power 50, now in its fifth year, professionals must not only [...]
Volunteers plant fruit trees in Grant Square with the Worcester Tree Initiative. Recently, we connected with Ruth Seward, executive director of the Worcester Tree Initiative, a department of New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, about their first decade and what's coming next... Q: Congratulations on WTI reaching its 10 year anniversary. [...]
The Green Hill Park WWI Memorial Grove was initially planted in 1928 with 278 “Rock” Maples, which is another name for sugar maple. Each tree was planted to represent a solider or nurse from Worcester who died in the war. The trees were planted on a slope starting at the pinnacle of Green Hill [...]
Photography by Tony King BOYLSTON - The public is invited to New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill to see “Honoring Trees - The Photography of Tony King” from May 14 to July 7. Tony King (1934-2017) was a businessman, author, philanthropist, award-winning photographer, and conservationist based in Massachusetts and Maine. Born [...]
On April 30, 2019, community forester Derek Lirange presented to a class at Mount Wachusett Community College about the importance of urban trees and their equitable distribution in our environmental justice focused presentation Gray to Green. Then we took the class outside for a tree planting training and worked with the students to plant five Purple Prince Crabapple trees on the lawn [...]
Visitors to New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill are seeing the property in a whole new light this spring thanks to the installation of a kinetic sculpture exhibit by award-winning Ipswich artist George Sherwood. Wind, Waves & Light is on display at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, located in Boylston, Mass., [...]
