By Megan Stouffer, New England Botanic Garden Staff July 2023 As July rolls around, the phrase ‘Plastic Free July’ may once again surface as a popular topic across news outlets, social media, and social circles. Plastic Free July—a month when individuals and organizations challenge themselves to reduce plastic use—attempts to make limiting reliance on plastics [...]
The longest, darkest, coldest season is upon us. If you’re not a winter lover, your garden can help get you through it if you design with winter in mind. What you need are plants with winter interest. Among gardeners and horticulturists, the term "winter interest” describes plants that offer a sensory, often visual, appeal [...]
Creating “Sylvia” was no quick task for area artist S.E. Clark. In a video (see below), Clark walks viewers through the multi-day process of painstakingly layering paints to transform a large, gray, concrete garden gnome—essentially a blank canvas—into a work of art inspired by Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt. With a name meaning “woodland” and a dress [...]
Swirling strands of rope lights. One hundred feet of rainbow. Uplighting, spotlighting, dripping icicle lights, bottle flowers, orbs, starbursts, and dancing fairy lights illuminating trees. You name it. We’ve got it. The Garden’s annual Night Lights event immerses visitors in a spectacular world of color and illumination. This year, artfully crafted displays made from [...]
It’s 8AM at the Garden. There are no visitors yet. Sprinklers quietly sputter and spray as the voices of volunteers chatting with horticulture staff about morning tasks carry over the Lawn Garden. Then, Robert Graham, New England Botanic Garden’s Land Steward, powers up a bright green mower. Does the peaceful garden picture change? Yes [...]
From a young age many of us may learn the basics about trees and the water cycle, but it’s not often that environmental issues are thoroughly discussed as early as elementary school. Through New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s new pilot program, Growing Green, fifth and sixth graders in the City of Worcester [...]
