Gardens

This year’s Show theme is “The Beauty of Balance”, which is a key factor in design decisions, plant and material choices, and in cultivating the right-size garden for our lives and budgets. We explore the harmony we create within our gardens, vases and living spaces.

Our gardens are created by landscape designers, garden centers and nurseries, farms, florists, schools, and non-profit organizations to delight attendees and introduce themselves and their services.  Gardens and displays feature dozens of examples of plants, methods and materials to increase the beauty, the bountiful harvest and the ecological friendliness of our gardens and outdoor spaces.  The gardens are judged just prior to the opening of the show by prestigious members of the New England horticultural community and awarded prizes based on creativity, use of plants and materials, color and fragrance, and ecological concepts among other criteria. Awards are posted at each garden. See if you agree!

Click here to see a list of our 2018 Garden Exhibitors!

In addition to landscape displays, you’ll also enjoy:

Florists’ Invitational 

Local professional floral designers will create floral “selfie stations” to help visitors remember the fun at this year’s Flower Show!  Stay tuned for a list of our 2019 Florists’ Invitational participants – and check out our 2018 artists below!

Beach Plum Flower Show
Newburyport, MA/978 465- 1739
www.beachblumtoo.com 

Davis & Sawin Florist
West Roxbury, MA/617-323-4237
www.davisandsawin.com

Petal and Crumb Florist
Acton, MA/508-330-7448
www.petalandcrumbflorist.com

Sunny Florist
Boston, MA/857-496-1830
www.sunnyflorist.com

Village Arts & Flowers
Walpole, MA/ 508-668-0022
www.villageartsandflowers.net

The Window Box Invitational

Window boxes are the perfect place to combine edibles and ornamentals for a convenient and colorful crop!  Join us for this year’s Window Box Invitational, sponsored by Renewal By Andersen. Stay tuned for a list of our 2019 Window Box Invitational participants – and check out our 2018 artists below!

Harding Botanicals, Inc.
Southborough, MA/508.624.9911
www.hardingbotanicals.com

Wisteria & Rose
Jamaica Plain, MA/617-522-3843
www.wisteriaandrose.com

 Homesteading Pavillion

With the show’s fresh focus on edible gardening and many other activities related to “doing it yourself”, we’ve added an area to feature topics such as beekeeping, chicken raising, farmers markets and agritourism.  Meet the farmers, entrepreneurs and innovators doing new and interesting things all over New England.

Garden Photography & Botanical Art

Check out the stunning winners of our annual Garden Photo Contest, meet an artist at work in the New England Society of Botanic Artists display, or get a close up view of the original commissioned artworks (and the plants that inspired them) that become the seed packages for Hudson Valley Seed Library.

And There’s More!

Don’t miss the prestigious Amateur Floral Design competitions presented by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and Ikebana International. Get inspired at the Amateur Horticulture Exhibition in which hundreds of home gardeners and garden club members show off their carefully cultivated plants, competing for awards and providing examples of what the rest of us should be shooting for!