Tower Hill sale offers something for everyone.Byline: Nancy Sheehan COLUMN: Quick Takes What's Up Why settle for a garden-variety garden plant? The 23rd annual plant sale at Tower Hill Botanic Garden The Tower Hill Botanic Garden, in Boylston, Massachusetts, USA, is a 132 acre (534,000 m²) botanical garden with spectacular views of Mount Wachusett and the Wachusett Reservoir. features an amazing selection of perennials, herbs, everlastings, shrubs, trees, native plants, houseplants, annuals, vegetables and easy-to-grow plants for children (and the brown thumbs among us). If you can't decide among all those offerings, knowledgeable staffers will be on hand to help. How-to-grow information also will be available from plant societies, including the bamboo, cactus & succulent succulent (sŭk`yələnt), any fleshy plant that belongs to one of many diverse families, among them species of cactus, aloe, stonecrop, houseleek, agave, and yucca. , conifer conifer (kŏn`ĭfûr) [Lat.,=cone-bearing], tree or shrub of the order Coniferales, e.g., the pine, monkey-puzzle tree, cypress, and sequoia. Most conifers bear cones and most are evergreens, though a few, such as the larch, are deciduous. , daffodil daffodil: see amaryllis. daffodil Bulb-forming flowering plant (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), also called common daffodil or trumpet narcissus, native to northern Europe and widely cultivated there and in North America. It grows to about 16 in. , daylily, epimedium, heather, hosta, iris, magnolia, orchid and rose societies. All of them also will offer specimens of their specialties at the sale, which will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. Admission is free. There is a $1 parking charge. A preview party and sale with a live auction will be held beginning at 5:30 tonight. Auction items include a private tour of Channel 7 news anchor Randy Price's garden in Maine; a garden consultation from Tower Hill executive director John Trexler; and a large dogwood dogwood or cornel (kôr`nəl), shrub or tree of the genus Cornus, chiefly of north temperate and tropical mountain regions, characteristically having an inconspicuous flower surrounded by large, showy bracts which tree with planting included. The tree is a variety called "Endurance" because the flowers last a long time. David Epstein For the computer scientist notable for his work in computational geometry, graph algorithms, and recreational mathematics, see David Eppstein David B. A. Epstein (b. , a meteorologist on Channel 5 and a garden guru, will be a special guest. Preview party tickets are $25. Call (508) 869-6111, ext. 136, to order. Tower Hill Botanic Garden is located at 11 French Drive in Boylston, exit 24 off route I-290. For more information, call (508) 869-6111 or visit www.towerhillbg.org. |
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