The Duxbury Garden Club’s July 23 tour shows late-blooming hydrangeas
DUXBURY – Five gardens, three oceanfront and two associated with historic homes, are the stars of this year’s Hydrangea Happiness Festival, sponsored by the Community Garden Club of Duxbury.
The garden tour will be held on July 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting, starting at the Alden Historic House Site, 105 Alden St. This is the club’s sixth Hydrangea Festival.
This year’s garden tour will focus on all hydrangeas, but the hardier panicle hydrangeas, smooth hydrangeas and tree hydrangeas, which bloom later, will be the focus, said Margaret Brook, vice president of the garden club. For that reason, the tour is taking place later in the hydrangea cycle.
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The Myles Standish Hotel is now a private home
One of the highlights will be the gardens belonging to the Myles Standish Hotel Residence.
This residence was designed in part of a former historic hotel under the supervision of renowned Boston and Edgartown architect Patrick Ahearn.
Ahearn and Pete Cadieux, a landscape architect with Sudbury-based Blade of Grass, will offer tours of the property at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. They will explain the renovation and revitalization of the landscape. Ahearn will have copies of his book, “History Reinterpreted: The Myles Standish Hotel Book.”
All five gardens feature hydrangeas, unique arrangements, tablescapes (tables set with flower arrangements) and perennials.
Some gardens will have special activities including art and music. One of the houses will have a decorated outdoor shower. Another house will feature a floating flower arrangement.
Artist Joan Sullivan of Duxbury Oyster, who makes decorated oyster shells or decoupage oyster shells and sells them in town, will show her garden and have oyster shells for sale.
Another property on the tour has chickens and a farm stand. The garden is a collection of flower beds and the homeowners have taken a sustainable landscaping approach, using ground cover instead of traditional mulch. They also have beehives.
“This is truly a community effort,” Brook said.
To purchase tickets for the garden tour in advance for $50, visit the Garden Club festival website.
A free presentation on “Hydrangea Heroes” on July 18 at the Duxbury Free Library is full. You can email the garden club to see if any spots open up at the last minute, Brook said.
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