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 [...]
Malabar spinach, Basella alba, twines its way up a 7-foot trellis in the Vegetable Garden. Adjacent to our historic Farmhouse, this garden is a visitor favorite. Heirloom crops featured here remind us of the region’s agricultural roots, while vegetable varieties originating around the world celebrate the ways food and gardening bring people together. [...]
Each year the Worcester Business Journal names local professionals, individuals with promising careers and a commitment to the community, to their “40 Under Forty” list. The Garden is thrilled to celebrate Marissa Gallant, Manager of Youth Education, as part of this year’s 40 Under Forty Class of 2022! Marissa Gallant, Manager of Youth [...]
It was all hands-on deck in the Garden’s potting shed. A rainbow of young plants, fresh from nurseries around the region, sprawled across worktables and erupted from seedling trays on the ground. Like so many tiles in a mosaic, these individuals would soon come together to form a single work of art. All the [...]
