2024-01-25T10:49:41-05:00November 15th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Gardens Aglow, Gardens and Plants|
Make Beautiful Bottle Flowers at Home! If you attended our Gardens Aglow event last year, you most likely saw our Bottle Flower garden. We've received a lot of questions about this upcycled project - and we're here to share with you how to bring this magic to your home. [...]
2023-01-10T16:24:23-05:00November 9th, 2021|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection, Past Exhibits|
GI JOE: America’s Favorite Military Toy Created by U.S. Army Veterans Amanda Wastrom, Assistant Curator Working on this past year’s Let’s Play! New England Toy Stories exhibition, featuring New England made toys and games, meant doing a deep dive into childhood. Many of the most successful toys of the [...]
2024-03-26T11:02:24-04:00October 20th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea, Now at Heritage|
Moving a Large Hydrangea - Relocating an Ancient PeeGee Standard at Heritage A couple of years ago I ‘rediscovered’ two very old Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ tree-form plants on the slope of the Arbor Bowl at Heritage. Both specimens have accession tags indicating their presence at the time of the [...]
2022-02-10T11:20:50-05:00September 9th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Now at Heritage|
Pollinator Tea Garden: Provide for native bees and use the leaves for amazing teas! Iris Clearwater, Senior Gardener There are many things that you can do to support both your own health and wellness, and that of our native butterflies and bees populations, which we need to keep [...]
2024-01-25T11:04:39-05:00August 9th, 2021|Categories: News and Media, News and Press|
Hydrangeas are always on exhibit at the Heritage Museums & Gardens - Kelli Rodda, Nursery Management Magazine Published in February 2021 By Kelli Rodda Cape Cod is home to many a hydrangeaphile. Landscapes in this historic and idyllic area of southern New England are adorned with some spectacular [...]
2024-01-25T15:15:37-05:00August 9th, 2021|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Past Exhibits|
Exhibit Spotlight: Paper Dolls Amanda Wastrom, Assistant Curator How do we decide which games and toys end up on exhibit? It’s hard! While the Let’s Play! New England Toy Stories exhibit features many well-known, classic games and toys (like Monopoly or Mr. Potato Head), we also highlighted the toymakers who [...]
2024-01-25T15:23:03-05:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Hydrangea, News and Media, News and Press, Press Releases|
Ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, July 14 North American Hydrangea Test Garden Opens July 12, 2021 (Sandwich, MA) – Heritage Museums & Gardens, the largest public garden in Southern New England, will celebrate one of Cape Cod’s most iconic plants this summer during the Cape-wide Hydrangea Festival, July 9-18. [...]
2024-01-24T13:41:23-05:00July 13th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Hydrangea, News and Media|
Hydrangea Season: 2021 Possibly the Best Year Yet The stars have aligned this year for our favorite summer plant, Hydrangea macrophylla. Thanks to many factors (mostly weather) this is shaping up to be one of the best years for flowering that I can remember. I’ve lived on the [...]
2023-01-10T16:21:14-05:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
1925 FRANKLIN SPORT RUNABOUT AND 1910 SEARS SURREY AUTO REACTIVATION One of the unique challenges that comes with curating a collection of antique automobiles is the question of driving the cars. Do you or don’t you? Heritage believes that occasional and light operation of our cars does not [...]
2024-03-25T15:12:48-04:00June 7th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Garden Care and Tips|
The biggest bloom of June Tree peonies are the aristocrats of the garden. I’ve always felt that they’re the pinnacle of gardening and the plant that many gardeners try to grow, and many ultimately fail. For those that don’t know tree peonies, they’re worthy of attention. For [...]
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