Beacon Hill Garden Club
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The Beacon Hill Garden Club (est. 1928) of Boston
, Massachusetts
, is a private civic group devoted to green spaces
and urban beautification in the neighborhood of Beacon Hill and elsewhere in the city. Founders of the club include artist Gertrude Beals Bourne. As of 2011, it aims to encourage "the love of horticulture and urban gardening" and to support "environmental conservation and civic improvement."
Since 1929, the club has organized an annual behind-the-scenes tour of selected private gardens in Beacon Hill. "They say if you can garden on Beacon Hill, you can garden anywhere in Boston. With more shade than sun, with soil that is laced with brick dust (from the old paved laundry yards), with imperious tree roots that heave up brickwork, it's a challenge to make a hidden garden something worth showing the public."
Boston
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, is a private civic group devoted to green spaces
Greenspace
Greenspace or green space may refer to:* Greenspace or Open space reserve, a land use planning and conservation term used to describe protected areas of undeveloped landscape.* Greenspace, the Natural environment....
and urban beautification in the neighborhood of Beacon Hill and elsewhere in the city. Founders of the club include artist Gertrude Beals Bourne. As of 2011, it aims to encourage "the love of horticulture and urban gardening" and to support "environmental conservation and civic improvement."
Since 1929, the club has organized an annual behind-the-scenes tour of selected private gardens in Beacon Hill. "They say if you can garden on Beacon Hill, you can garden anywhere in Boston. With more shade than sun, with soil that is laced with brick dust (from the old paved laundry yards), with imperious tree roots that heave up brickwork, it's a challenge to make a hidden garden something worth showing the public."
Further reading
- Beacon Hill opens hidden gardens to public for day. Daily Boston Globe, May 19, 1931
- Beacon Hill Gardens Plan 'Open House.' Christian Science Monitor, Apr 28, 1953
- Clemens KalischerClemens KalischerClemens Kalischer is a photojournalist and art photography. He emigrated to France via Switzerland and then to the United States via Morocco . Clemens Kalischer married Angela Wottitz in 1956. They have two daughters, Cornelia and Tanya...
. Hidden gardens of Beacon Hill : photographs. Boston : Beacon Hill Garden Club, 1959. - Linda Matchan. Rolling Out The Welcome Mat: At Historic Houses, Hidden Gardens. Boston Globe, May 15, 1980.
- Frances Minturn HowardFrances Minturn HowardFrances Minturn Howard was an American poet.-Life:She studied sculpture.In 1957, she met and corresponded with May Sarton.In 1959, Sylvia Plath came to dinner....
et al. Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill. Boston: Beacon Hill Garden Club, 1972, 1987. - Carol Stocker. Celebrating The Creativity Behind Gardens Of Boston. Boston Globe, May 1, 2003.
- Karen Cord Taylor. To Host Beacon Hill Garden Tour, Plant, Prune, And Cross Fingers. Boston Globe, May 19, 2005.
External links
- Flickr. Photos of annual garden tour, ca.2007
- Boston Athenaeum. Beacon Hill Garden Club minute book and scrapbooks, 1928-1959.