The Elm Bank Horticulture Center is the home of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, located at 900 Washington Street (Route 16), Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA. The site includes open fields and meadows, streams and pools, wooded areas and formal gardens.
Elm Bank currently contains the following gardens: Weezie’s Garden for Children - a series of small spiraling gardens, each giving visitors the opportunity to plant, water or interact in some way with the garden’s elements. Children’s classes are held throughout the spring, summer and fall in this special garden. New England Trial Garden - a cooperative effort between the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Flower Growers’ Association and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Breeding companies from all over the world contribute annuals for viewing by amateur and professional gardeners. This garden also tests unreleased varieties competing for All-America Selections awards, displays previous winners, and grows hundreds of cultivars submitted for evaluation by commercial breeders. Italianate Garden - Restoration of the 1926 Italianate Garden, based on original plans from the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, together with a numbered plant list and even the receipts for the trees and flowers originally planted in the gardens. Display Gardens and Tree Nurseries - The Noanett Garden Club, the New England Chapter of the Herb Society of America, and the American Rhododendron Society maintain collaborative demonstration and display gardens at Elm Bank. The Day Lily Society installed a garden in 2004 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Services for the field and / or horticultural |
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