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It continued this tradition from 1871 through 2008 with its annual New England Spring Flower Show. In 1831 the society bought a 72-acre (290,000 m 2) estate called "Sweet Auburn" for an arboretum, garden, and cemetery. Although the horticultural garden never materialized, in 1835 the site was incorporated as Mount Auburn Cemetery. Until 1976 ...
Chelsea Flower Show. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, [1] is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. Held at Chelsea since 1912, [1] the show is attended by members of the British royal family.
Many species of wildflowers are native to New England. There are four important community types which show considerable diversity and blending across this United States physiographic region. These are: alpine, coniferous forests, northern hardwood forests, and wetlands. Wetlands may be further subdivided into bogs, swamps, and bottomlands.
C. majalis. Binomial name. Convallaria majalis. L. 19th-century illustration. Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis / ˌkɒnvəˈlɛəriə məˈdʒeɪlɪs /), [2] sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, [3] is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring.
The Mount Holyoke College Botanic Garden, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States, encompasses the Mount Holyoke College campus, an arboretum, numerous gardens, and the Talcott Greenhouse. It was first designated a botanical garden in 1878, with guidance from Lydia Shattuck, professor of botany. The construction of the Talcott Greenhouse ...
The Canadian Tulip Festival, which claims to be the world's largest tulip festival, is a major event held annually each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. During World War II, the Dutch royal family took refuge in Canada. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born at Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1943, and the Canadian government declared the land ...
Native Plant Trust. The Native Plant Trust, founded in 1900 as the Society for the Protection of Native Plants, and long known as the New England Wild Flower Society, is the nation's first plant conservation organization. [1] The society is dedicated to the preservation of native plants and operates Garden in the Woods (a native plant botanical ...
New England Botanic Garden. New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is a 200-acre four season botanic garden located in Boylston, Massachusetts, approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of central Worcester in Worcester County, Massachusetts. [1] The Garden features 18 distinct garden spaces, preserved woodlands, and miles of walking trails.