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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 [...]
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 [...]
2021-07-05T12:53:07-04:00May 27th, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Rhododendron, Uncategorized|
Managing an Historic Collection of Rhododendrons Ambling the paths at Heritage Museums and Gardens is an invitation to revel in a kaleidoscope of bright pinks, lavenders, purple and cream-colored flowers contrasted against a dark green wall of shining leaves. Rhododendrons are regal plants that calm the spirit. [...]
2024-03-26T11:03:18-04:00May 21st, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage History, Rhododendron|
100 Years of Rhododendrons After Dexter died in 1943, many of his hybrid rhododendrons were scattered away from Sandwich to different places. While Dexter himself had given away thousands of seedlings during his lifetime, after he died some people who were aware of his fine plants came [...]
2023-12-06T09:07:52-05:00May 16th, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage History, Rhododendron|
100 Years of Rhododendrons This year, 2021, marks the centennial of the year that Charles Owen Dexter acquired Shawme Farm. It is because Dexter bought himself a country retreat a hundred years ago that today you have a wonderful place to find a smorgasbord of adventures and [...]
2024-01-24T13:40:06-05:00April 20th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, News and Media, News and Press|
Down To Earth by Les Lutz Heritage Museums & Gardens is going green! Over the last year we have been studying all aspects of our operations to become more sustainable. One aspect of our operations that has been high on our list to examine is garden maintenance. I’ve [...]
2024-03-25T15:09:15-04:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, News and Media|
Down To Earth by Les Lutz Trees that bear needles are usually evergreen, and most species are. But there are five genera that are needled conifers that are deciduous and drop their foliage each fall. Of these, four will thrive on the Cape and three are found at [...]
2024-01-25T14:32:54-05:00March 10th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, News and Media, News and Press|
Down To Earth by Les Lutz The days are getting longer and there are already signs of life in the garden. One bright spot in the garden here at Heritage Museums & Gardens is one of my favorite plants for this season, Hamamelis, or witch hazel. The species [...]
2024-01-25T10:30:31-05:00February 4th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Gardens and Plants|Tags: American Elderberry, Herb Garden|
Our beautiful elderberry in the herb garden. Sambucus canadensis or American Elderberry is a shrub that can grow to 12 feet, flowering in the summer and producing an abundance of fruits in early fall. The shrub prefers sun to partial share, and moist soil; but are generally easy to [...]
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