Spring Fest - Berkshire Botanical Garden
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Hilary Collingwood, from Moonflower Farm in Sheffield, Mass., will lead a youth workshop on making flower crowns using in-season blooms.
Specialty foods and additional drinks will be available for purchase throughout the day, and BBG will celebrate the graduates from the Horticulture Certificate Program and the Advanced Certificate in Horticulture and Design Program for their own ceremony that afternoon.
Always held on the first Sunday of May, our spring celebration also honors Roy Boutard, the Swedish horticulturist who came to the United States from Canada in the 1950s after graduating from England’s Royal Horticultural Society Gardens. He served as the Garden’s venerable executive director from 1955 to 1985. Boutard wrote a regular gardening column for The Berkshire Eagle and hosted a gardening show on WBEC. Under his direction, the Garden expanded its grounds and educational offerings and won numerous gardening awards.
Victorian tea and cookies will be offered at the Center House; the tea was graciously donated by Harney & Sons Tea.
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