Cocktails in Great Gardens/Garden Tools/Botanical Painting

What's Coming Up in the Garden?

June 23, 2011

Vickie Merton's Garden

Cocktails in Great Gardens

Last Friday's rain didn't dampen the spirits of anyone who visited Vickie Merton's beautiful hilltop garden in Lenox.The first of four Cocktails in Great Gardens, this was a most spectacular setting for what has come to be a highly anticipated series of summer garden gatherings in the Berkshires. Held on Friday evenings from 5:30 to 7:00, Cocktails in Great Gardens provides a rare opportunity to enjoy wine and hors d'oeuvres in the waning light of a summer day while meandering through some of the regions most notable private gardens. Thank you, Vickie, for hosting such a splendid event!

We look forward to July 15 when we will be hosted by Elizabeth and Wynn Sayman in their lovely Richmond garden; August 5 with Anne Fredericks in her beautiful Garden in Great Barrington and August 16, when Ralph and Audrey Friedner share their garden and dramatic waterfall in Stockbridge.

Members: $20; Nonmembers $25

Tickets are limited and reservations are required.

Click here to purchase tickets now, or call 413 298-3926

See you in Great Gardens!

Now Showing!

Achillea

'Moonshine'
Yarrow

Cotinus coggygria
'Purple Robe'
Smoke Bush

salvia

Salvia
longispicata x farinacea
'Mystic Spires Blue'

Visit the Garden!

Open daily, 9-5

Public Garden Tours

Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00am

Meet at the Garden Shop

Free with Garden Admission

(Members always Free!)

A Tool for Every Purpose

Molly with Swoe2

We asked our staff to name their favorite garden tools. . .

and then went out and purchased them for you!

What's a swoe? Ask Garden Executive Director Molly Boxer - it's on her "must have" list for easy stand-up weeding. Hard to find in the US, it is waiting for you in the Garden Shop along with other favorite tools recommended by our staff:

Joyce Chen garden and kitchen scissors

Swiss-made Felco classic pruning shears

Dramm garden pruners

Dutch-made DeWit gardening tools

Worth telescopic trowel

Haws watering cans from England

Tierra-Deveo adjustable kneeler bench and seat

Plus - Now on Sale: Seeds and More!

While you're picking out your favorite garden tools, be sure
and take advantage of 50% savings on all seeds in stock, including herb gift sets complete with pots and trays, seeds for creating song bird habitats, shade flower gardens and even cat grass gardens!

Also on sale - 25% off BBG signature pots, 30% off select bird feeders and 50% off BBG mugs.

Shop the Shop!

The Garden in Watercolor

Is this the summer you will paint in the garden?

Join artist Ann Kremers for a very special program, The Garden in Watercolor offered Tuesdays, 10 am - 1 pm starting July 12.

Classes are open to artists of all levels - no previous experience is necessary. This is a wonderful opportunity to view the summer garden from an artistic perspective. Attend one or the complete series of classes, although everyone is is encouraged to come to the first session when the basics of watercolor paint, brushes and paper will be explained. Click here for more information or call 413 298-3926.

Watercolor painting by Ann Kremers

For more information about Berkshire Botanical Garden
call: 413.298.3926

check out our website: www.berkshirebotanical.org

write:
Berkshire Botanical Garden
PO Box 826, Stockbridge, MA. 01262

email:
info@berkshirebotanical.org

visit:
5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, MA 01262

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