Garden Tours New England
Your go-to source of information for community garden tours and events throughout New England.
Welcome
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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Lyman Estate Greenhouses: Camellias in Bloom
Eager to enjoy flowers other than what's in the supermarkets, I visited the Lyman Estate Greenhouses in Waltham, Massachusetts to see their camellias that are now in full bloom. Amazingly, the camellia house dates back to 1820 when Boston's elite could afford to enjoy floral blooms in the middle of winter. It is not a large collection with just over a dozen camellias. However, some of the camellias are over a hundred years old, which makes them quite special.
In addition to the camellia house, there are other plants in bloom, such as brilliant fuschia bougainvillea and azaleas, in the three grape houses and the orchid house. Beautiful and unusual orchids are also sprinkled liberally throughout the greenhouses...