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Vermont Show Houses Gardens
Listings of showhouses and showhouse garden locations in Vermont towns,
cities and counties
Historical Information:
2009-2010 SCHEDULE
Vermont Showhouses and Garden events
Vermont Home tour videos
http://www.vthometours.com/
2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
May 16: Pruning for the Home Landscape
Pruning is an art; the difference between a plant that has been cut, hacked,
shortened and one that has been pruned for its pleasing contribution to the
landscape or garden. A classroom discussion of styles, techniques, and do's
and don'ts will be followed by a pruning demonstration on nursery stock and
an overview of pruning as an element of design on the Morrill Homestead
grounds. Led by Michael Dathe, horticulturist& designer with 35 years
experience in his informal/natural New England style. Admission: $10.00 Rain
or Shine. 10:00 - 11:30 AM.
Where: Justin Morrill State Historic Site, Strafford directions
Contact: (802) 765-4484
July 19: "Barn To Be Wild"
In the 19th century it took someone with courage and gallantry to have eight
pink barns in the Vermont rural landscape. Spend an afternoon learning about
the unique functions of Justin Morrill's Homestead and the agricultural
heritage of Vermont barns. View a barn theme art exhibition, tour the
historic grounds, hike the nature trail and make ice cream the old fashioned
way. $8.00 Rain or shine. 1:00 - 4:00 PM, Lecture at 2:00 PM by Nancy Boone,
Acting State Historic Preservation Officer
Where: Justin Morrill State Historic Site, Strafford directions
Contact: (802) 765-4484
Eva discovered Peter King who has been building tiny houses for years in the
state of Vermont and did a cool video tour of a couple of his tiny houses.
http://tinyhouseblog.com/stick-built/vermont-tiny-houses/
Book on Show Houses
Decorator Show Houses: Tour 250 Designer Rooms by Tina Skinner (Author),
Melissa Cardona (Author), Nancy Ottino (Author)
Vermont Garden Events 2009
January
17
The Gardening Quiz Book, Dr. Norman Pellett, 10am Hort. Research Center, So.
Burlington, 656-2630
22
Three Botanical Adventures, 7pm, Montpelier, Hardy Plant Club 802-888-5559
24
Go Green with Savvy Succulents, 9:30am, Burlington, Gardener's Supply,
660-3505
30
Line, Form, Texture; Keith Wagner, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar
series, 656-2630
February
7
Historic Gardens restoration, Greatwood Gardens, Layne Tharp, 3pm Stafford
Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630
13
Ball Horticulture and the World Seed Industry, Jim Nau, 3pm Stafford Hall,
UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630
14
Listening to Stone, Montpelier, 1pm, Hardy Plant Club 802-888-5559
14
Seedstarting 101, 9am, David Boucher, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
20
The Royal Botanic Gardens of Canada, Ann Milovsoroff, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM
PSS seminar series, 656-2630
21
Hot New Seed Varieties, 9:30am, Jay Leshinsky, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
27
Cottage Gardening, Kerry Mendez, 6pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
27
Gardening Trends, Kathy LaLiberte, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar
series, 656-2630
28
Perennial Primer, 9:30am, Kerry Mendez, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
28
Plant Collector's Corner, 12pm, Kerry Mendez, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
March
5
A Lifetime of Rhododendrons, David Lewis, 7pm, Montpelier, Hardy Plant Club
802-888-5559
6
Breeding and Propagation of Specialty Perennials, Sinclair Adam Jr, 3pm
Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630
6-8
Vermont Flower show, Champlain Expo Center (Essex Jct, VT) 425-5117
14
Soil 101, 9:30am, Mike Ather, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
19
Health and the Hive, Beekeeping, Todd Hardie, 6pm, Hort. Research Center,
So. Burlington, 864-3073
20
Global and HiTech Flower Production, Chris Schlegel, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM
PSS seminar series, 656-2630
21
Getting the Most from your Vegetable Garden, 9:30am, Charlie Nardozzi,
Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
21
Planning and Growing for Cooking, 12noon, Kirk Fiore and Abbey Duke,
Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
21-22
Waterbury Home and Garden Show, 9am start, Crossett Brook Middle School,
Duxbury, 244-7373
27
Fine Paintings as Inspiration for Garden Design, Gordon Hayward, 3pm
Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630
28
Crabapple Pruning Workday, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
28
The Healing Landscape, Rachel Boyer, 10am, Hort. Research Center, So.
Burlington, 864-3073
28
What's Eating Your Garden, 9:30am, Lisa Yankowski, Gardener's Supply,
660-3505
April
3
Climate Change and Crops in the Northeast, David Wolfe, 3pm Stafford Hall,
UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630
4
Wise on Weeds, 9:30am, Sharon Plumb, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
10
Perennial Garden Design, Stephanie Cohen, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar
series, 656-2630
11
New England Wildflower Soc. symposium 'Design Inspirations' (Randolph), 9am,
tkhewitt@aol.com
11
Designing Perennial Gardens, 9am, Stephanie Cohen, Gardener's Supply,
660-3505
18
Creating a Backyard Habitat, 9:30am, Charlotte Albers, Gardener's Supply,
660-3505
19
Lilac Pruning Workday, 8am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073
24
Green Secrets for Better Yards with Trees and Shrubs, Penelope O'Sullivan,
3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630
24-25
Great Gardens Symposium, Mirror Lake Inn, (Lake Placid, NY),
pyours@nycap.rr.com
25
Prepping Your Beds for Seedlings, 9:30am, David Boucher, Gardener's Supply,
660-3505
25
Lilac Pruning Workday, 8am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073
25
Perennial garden workday, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
30
Get Wise on Weeds presenter workshop, 6pm Nature Conservancy, Montpelier
802-229-4425
May
2
Daffodil Days (Leonard Perry open gardens for charity), Milton, 893-4388
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2
GreenUp Day in Vermont, www.greenupvermont.org
2
Organic Lawn Care, 9:30am, Charlie Nardozzi, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505
3
Lilac novice workshop, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073
9
Grow Team One Plant Sale, 9-4, Roosevelt Park, Burlington, 598-3139
9
Perennial garden maintenance, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
12
Spring Woodland Delights, Phil Cook, Underhill, 5pm, Hardy Plant Club
888-5559
16
Annual Bloomtime Festival, 10am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
17
Lilac Sunday, talks and tours and exhibits, Shelburne Museum, 985-3346
19
Lilac Pruning Workday, 8am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073
21
Lilac walk and talk, 5:30pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073
30
Rock Garden Day, The Fells, Newbury, NH 603-763 4789
June
2
Lilac walk and talk, 5:30pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073
3
Rhododendron walk and talk, 6pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
6
Get Wise on Weeds workshop, 1pm, Montshire Museum, Norwich, 649-2200
3
Rhododendron walk and talk, 6pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
13
Peony Pointers, Dr. Leonard Perry, 11am, Fort Ticonderoga NY 518 585-2821
13
Get Wise on Weeds workshop, Hildene, Manchester, 802-362-1788
14
Garden Party and Peony display, 6pm, Hildene, Manchester, reservations
362-1788
17
Ladyslipper Workshop, Morrisville, 5:30pm, Hardy Plant Club 888-5559
19
Gardening for Fun, North Hill Symposium, West Dover
26-28
Stowe Garden Festival, Stowe vicinity, 244-7138
July
19
Flynn Gardens tour, Champlain islands, 10-4, Flynn Theater 652-4533
19
Lake Willoughby Gardens, Lake Willoughby, 1pm, Hardy Plant Club 802-888-5559
26
Plant Sale, 10am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073
27
Montreal Gardens and Biodome tour, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington,
864-3073
August
8
Mountain Hideaways home and garden tour, Wardsboro, 896-3416
23
Third annual corn roast and veggie ball, Burlington, Friends of Burlington
Gardens, 802-861-4769
September
5,6
Puppets in Paradise (Hayward open gardens), Putney, 387-4766
TBA
Montreal Botanic Gardens and lanterns tour, Hort. Research Center, So.
Burlington, 864-3073
October
23-25
Gardening shortcourse, Kerry Mendez and Leonard Perry, Sagamore, Lake
George,.pyours@nycap.rr.com
Vermont Gardens
Equinox Valley Nursery: Historic Route 7A, Manchester, VT (802)362-2610.
This retail nursery and landscaping business offers a tropical conservatory
and display gardens.
Greatwood Gardens
Goddard College, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667 (802)454-8311. The
college is situated on the former Greatwood Farms Estate which included
professionally landscaped gardens.
Gardens at Hildene
Historic Route 7A, P.O. Box 377, Manchester, VT 05254 (802) 362-1788.
Abraham Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, built this Georgian
Revival manor house overlooking the Battenkill Valley. The formal gardens,
designed by his daughter Jessie Lincoln Beckwith, replicate a stained glass
Gothic cathedral window with privet hedges and peonies, roses, lilies and
other flowers. Period cutting and kitchen gardens have also been restored at
the site.
Little Siberia Perennials
966 Maston Hill Road, Granville, VT 05747 (802)767-3391. Located in the
mountains at 1600 feet elevation, Zone 3 and 4 hardy perennials, heathers,
shrubs, and roses are displayed in over 20 gardens at our retail nursery.
Stroll through islands of color set against one of VermontÕs most dramatic
backdrops.
Park McCullough House
Corner Park & West Streets, P.O. Box 388, North Bennington, VT 05257
(802)442-5441. This French Empire style mansion, home to two of Vermont's
Governors, offers beautifully landscaped gardens and grounds.
Rocky Dale Gardens
62 Rocky Dale Road, Bristol, VT 05443 (802)453-2782. This retail nursery,
situated in a vale amidst rock ledges, offers display gardens with common
and unusual trees and plants. See our Photo Feature of their evergreens
Shelburne Farms
1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-8686. This 1886 model
agricultural estate, now an environmental education center, was created by
William Seward and Lila Vanderbilt Webb with architect Robert H. Robertson
and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The naturalistically
landscaped grounds, optimizing vistas of Lake Champlain, include a garden at
the magnificent house and a market garden. Be sure to visit the amazing barn
Shelburne Museum
Route 7, Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-3346. Founded in 1947 by Electra
Havemeyer Webb, a collector of every kind of Americana from circus figurines
to buildings to a paddlewheel steamer, this wonderful 45 acre museum
features over 35 historic buildings placed in a park-like setting designed
by Umberto Innocenti. Gardens include the Apothecary Herb Garden (medicinal
herbs), the Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery Garden (culinary herbs and
plants for dyes), the Electra Bostwick Memorial Garden (annuals, perennials
and roses arranged like an artist's palette), the Pleissner Gallery Garden,
and collections of lilacs (400 bushes of 90 varieties) and crabapples (200
trees)
University of Vermont Horticultural Research Center
Green Mountain Drive, South Burlington, VT (802)658-9166 (Manager) or
(802)864-3073 (Friends). The 97 acre "Hort. Farm" displays 700 kinds of
ornamental trees and shrubs, many of them uncommon or unique. Special
collections include apples, crabapples (210 specimens of 135 varieties),
lilacs (90 varieties), junipers (60 varieties), and a labelled perennial
display border
Vermont Community Botanical Garden
Corner of Dorset and Swift Streets, South Burlington, VT. Still a gleam in
its creators' eyes (The National Gardening Association), this proposed
botanical garden now has an office in an historic estate at a proposed site
and is beginning fund raising. It will eventually offer formal gardens, a
winter garden, a natural amphitheater, a gazebo, a butterfly garden, a
children's garden, a maze, a secret garden, a wildlife garden, an arboretum,
herbs, a dwarf variety orchard, and an ethnic heritage garden
Vermont Wildflower Farm
4750 Shelburne Road (Route 7 at Ferry Road), Charlotte , VT 05445
(802)425-3641. This wildflower seed company's headquarters offers paths with
signs through two flower fields and a woodland with a brook and pond
Botanical Gardens in New Hampshire's Great North Woods
The beautiful gardens at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, in Dixville Notch,
are a world unto itself. Almost 35,000 plants and flowers turn the resort
into a picturesque oasis nestled into the state's White Mountains. You can
walk around the five major garden areas on your own or take a walking tour
(in the summers only)
Botanical Gardens in New Hampshire's Seacoast Area
Located in Brentwood, New Hampshire, the Rockingham County Botanical Gardens
are a part of the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Master
Gardeners. The Rockingham County Botanical Gardens specialize in local flora
and are open to the pubic only on Thursdays from April-mid-October
Botanical Gardens in Northern Vermont
The University of Vermont's Waterfront Park area is a cooperative effort on
the part of Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation and the University
of Vermont. The park's gardens feature several garden beds containing
perennial flowers as well as annual flowers. The gardens at the University
of Vermont's Waterfront Park are an official display garden of the All
America Selections program
The Vermont Botanical Gardens in South Burlington
Home to a winter garden, a natural amphitheater, a gazebo, a children's
garden, a maze, a ÒsecretÓ garden, a butterfly garden, a wildlife garden, an
arboretum, a dwarf variety orchard, an ethnic heritage garden, and some
herbs
Central Vermont's Experimental Cold-Hardy Cactus Garden
Located on Halladay Road in Middlebury, Vermont, is the Vermont Experimental
Cold-Hardy Cactus Garden, a non-profit botanical garden specializing in
cactus and other succulents, such as opunitas, euphorbias, yuccas, agaves,
and sedum. The garden is open to the public, but as it is on a private
residence, one should call in advance before visiting
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