Garden Tours New England
Your go-to source of information for community garden tours and events throughout New England.
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If you're like me, you love going to garden tours in your local communities as well as those more far afield. Generally, you hear about a tour from a friend or you've read a notice in the local paper, in a magazine, or even a notice taped to a store front window. In other words, pure happenstance leads you to a garden tour. With Garden Tours New England, you don't have to depend upon chance anymore!
This site is designed to be your go-to source of information – an online kiosk - for community garden tours and events throughout New England. We gather this information and present it in a way that is most useful to you, such as showing the location on Google™ maps. If you learn of a tour or event not listed, please feel free to submit information or contact us.
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Gardens on Eagle Island, Maine
I took advantage of the continuing marvelous summer weather at the beginning of this month to take a day trip to Eagle Island in Casco Bay, Maine. We set out on a little ferry with Portland Discovery Land & Sea Tours passing several islands, forts, lighthouses, and the occasional seal or porpoise along the way. Eagle Island was the summer retreat for Admiral Robert Peary and his family from the early 1900′s to the mid 1950′s. Admiral Peary, as you may know, was the first explorer to reach the North Pole arriving on April 6, 1909.
When I signed up for this tour, I expected to walk the trails around the island and tour his house, which has been lovingly restored by the Bureau of Parks and Lands, the Friends of Peary’s Eagle Island, and grants from various Maine foundations. What I didn’t expect to find were gardens. These were the gardens of Josephine Diebitsch Peary, his wife, and Marie Peary Stafford, his daughter...
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