Vermont Showhouses show house decorators landscaping Designers and Gardens home tours

One of a Kind Antiques HOMEPAGE click HERE Antique dealers Shows -HOME PAGE -Interior Decorators Alabama Show Houses Gardens Arizona Gardens Show Houses Articles Show Houses Blogs Books on Show Houses Books Show House Gardens California Gardens California Show Houses Canada Show Houses Gardens Connecticut Show Houses Gardens Delaware Show Houses Gardens Florida Show Houses Gardens Georgia Show Houses Gardens Home Shows events schedule Illinois Show Houses Gardens Indiana Show Houses Gardens International Antique Dealers Shows Kentucky Gardens Show Houses Louisiana Show Houses Gardens Magazines articles publications Maine Show Houses Gardens Maryland Show Houses Gardens Massachusetts Show Houses Missouri Show Houses Gardens Nebraska Show Houses Gardens Nevada Show Houses Gardens New Hampshire Show Houses New Jersey Show Houses New York Show Houses North Carolina Show Houses Ohio Show Houses Gardens Pennsylvania Gardens Show Houses Rhode Island Show Houses SEARCH for Products SOURCES South Carolina Show houses Tennessee Show Houses Texas Show Houses Gardens Vermont Show Houses Gardens Virginia Show Houses Gardens Washington DC Show Houses What is a Showhouse

Vermont Show Houses Gardens listings of Showhouses and showhouse garden locations in Vermont towns, Cities and Counties 2009-2010 SCHEDULE Vermont Showhouses and Garden events Vermont Home tour videos http://www.vthometours.com/ 2009 CALENDAR OF EVENTS May 16: Pruning for the Home Landscape Pruning is an art; the difference between a plant that has been cut, hacked, shortened and one that has been pruned for its pleasing contribution to the landscape or garden. A classroom discussion of styles, techniques, and do's and don'ts will be followed by a pruning demonstration on nursery stock and an overview of pruning as an element of design on the Morrill Homestead grounds. Led by Michael Dathe, horticulturist& designer with 35 years experience in his informal/natural New England style. Admission: $10.00 Rain or Shine. 10:00 - 11:30 AM. Where: Justin Morrill State Historic Site, Strafford directions Contact: (802) 765-4484 July 19: "Barn To Be Wild" In the 19th century it took someone with courage and gallantry to have eight pink barns in the Vermont rural landscape. Spend an afternoon learning about the unique functions of Justin Morrill's Homestead and the agricultural heritage of Vermont barns. View a barn theme art exhibition, tour the historic grounds, hike the nature trail and make ice cream the old fashioned way. $8.00 Rain or shine. 1:00 - 4:00 PM, Lecture at 2:00 PM by Nancy Boone, Acting State Historic Preservation Officer Where: Justin Morrill State Historic Site, Strafford directions Contact: (802) 765-4484 Eva discovered Peter King who has been building tiny houses for years in the state of Vermont and did a cool video tour of a couple of his tiny houses. http://tinyhouseblog.com/stick-built/vermont-tiny-houses/ Book on Show Houses Decorator Show Houses: Tour 250 Designer Rooms by Tina Skinner (Author), Melissa Cardona (Author), Nancy Ottino (Author) Vermont Garden Events 2009 January 17 The Gardening Quiz Book, Dr. Norman Pellett, 10am Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 656-2630 22 Three Botanical Adventures, 7pm, Montpelier, Hardy Plant Club 802-888-5559 24 Go Green with Savvy Succulents, 9:30am, Burlington, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 30 Line, Form, Texture; Keith Wagner, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 February 7 Historic Gardens restoration, Greatwood Gardens, Layne Tharp, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 13 Ball Horticulture and the World Seed Industry, Jim Nau, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 14 Listening to Stone, Montpelier, 1pm, Hardy Plant Club 802-888-5559 14 Seedstarting 101, 9am, David Boucher, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 20 The Royal Botanic Gardens of Canada, Ann Milovsoroff, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 21 Hot New Seed Varieties, 9:30am, Jay Leshinsky, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 27 Cottage Gardening, Kerry Mendez, 6pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 27 Gardening Trends, Kathy LaLiberte, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 28 Perennial Primer, 9:30am, Kerry Mendez, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 28 Plant Collector's Corner, 12pm, Kerry Mendez, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 March 5 A Lifetime of Rhododendrons, David Lewis, 7pm, Montpelier, Hardy Plant Club 802-888-5559 6 Breeding and Propagation of Specialty Perennials, Sinclair Adam Jr, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 6-8 Vermont Flower show, Champlain Expo Center (Essex Jct, VT) 425-5117 14 Soil 101, 9:30am, Mike Ather, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 19 Health and the Hive, Beekeeping, Todd Hardie, 6pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 20 Global and HiTech Flower Production, Chris Schlegel, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 21 Getting the Most from your Vegetable Garden, 9:30am, Charlie Nardozzi, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 21 Planning and Growing for Cooking, 12noon, Kirk Fiore and Abbey Duke, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 21-22 Waterbury Home and Garden Show, 9am start, Crossett Brook Middle School, Duxbury, 244-7373 27 Fine Paintings as Inspiration for Garden Design, Gordon Hayward, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 28 Crabapple Pruning Workday, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 28 The Healing Landscape, Rachel Boyer, 10am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 28 What's Eating Your Garden, 9:30am, Lisa Yankowski, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 April 3 Climate Change and Crops in the Northeast, David Wolfe, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 4 Wise on Weeds, 9:30am, Sharon Plumb, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 10 Perennial Garden Design, Stephanie Cohen, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 11 New England Wildflower Soc. symposium 'Design Inspirations' (Randolph), 9am, tkhewitt@aol.com 11 Designing Perennial Gardens, 9am, Stephanie Cohen, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 18 Creating a Backyard Habitat, 9:30am, Charlotte Albers, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 19 Lilac Pruning Workday, 8am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 24 Green Secrets for Better Yards with Trees and Shrubs, Penelope O'Sullivan, 3pm Stafford Hall, UVM PSS seminar series, 656-2630 24-25 Great Gardens Symposium, Mirror Lake Inn, (Lake Placid, NY), pyours@nycap.rr.com 25 Prepping Your Beds for Seedlings, 9:30am, David Boucher, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 25 Lilac Pruning Workday, 8am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 25 Perennial garden workday, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 30 Get Wise on Weeds presenter workshop, 6pm Nature Conservancy, Montpelier 802-229-4425 May 2 Daffodil Days (Leonard Perry open gardens for charity), Milton, 893-4388 x224 2 GreenUp Day in Vermont, www.greenupvermont.org 2 Organic Lawn Care, 9:30am, Charlie Nardozzi, Gardener's Supply, 660-3505 3 Lilac novice workshop, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 9 Grow Team One Plant Sale, 9-4, Roosevelt Park, Burlington, 598-3139 9 Perennial garden maintenance, 9am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 12 Spring Woodland Delights, Phil Cook, Underhill, 5pm, Hardy Plant Club 888-5559 16 Annual Bloomtime Festival, 10am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 17 Lilac Sunday, talks and tours and exhibits, Shelburne Museum, 985-3346 19 Lilac Pruning Workday, 8am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 21 Lilac walk and talk, 5:30pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 30 Rock Garden Day, The Fells, Newbury, NH 603-763 4789 June 2 Lilac walk and talk, 5:30pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 3 Rhododendron walk and talk, 6pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 6 Get Wise on Weeds workshop, 1pm, Montshire Museum, Norwich, 649-2200 3 Rhododendron walk and talk, 6pm, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 13 Peony Pointers, Dr. Leonard Perry, 11am, Fort Ticonderoga NY 518 585-2821 13 Get Wise on Weeds workshop, Hildene, Manchester, 802-362-1788 14 Garden Party and Peony display, 6pm, Hildene, Manchester, reservations 362-1788 17 Ladyslipper Workshop, Morrisville, 5:30pm, Hardy Plant Club 888-5559 19 Gardening for Fun, North Hill Symposium, West Dover 26-28 Stowe Garden Festival, Stowe vicinity, 244-7138 July 19 Flynn Gardens tour, Champlain islands, 10-4, Flynn Theater 652-4533 19 Lake Willoughby Gardens, Lake Willoughby, 1pm, Hardy Plant Club 802-888-5559 26 Plant Sale, 10am, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 27 Montreal Gardens and Biodome tour, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 August 8 Mountain Hideaways home and garden tour, Wardsboro, 896-3416 23 Third annual corn roast and veggie ball, Burlington, Friends of Burlington Gardens, 802-861-4769 September 5,6 Puppets in Paradise (Hayward open gardens), Putney, 387-4766 TBA Montreal Botanic Gardens and lanterns tour, Hort. Research Center, So. Burlington, 864-3073 October 23-25 Gardening shortcourse, Kerry Mendez and Leonard Perry, Sagamore, Lake George,.pyours@nycap.rr.com Vermont Gardens Equinox Valley Nursery: Historic Route 7A, Manchester, VT (802)362-2610. This retail nursery and landscaping business offers a tropical conservatory and display gardens. Greatwood Gardens Goddard College, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667 (802)454-8311. The college is situated on the former Greatwood Farms Estate which included professionally landscaped gardens. Gardens at Hildene Historic Route 7A, P.O. Box 377, Manchester, VT 05254 (802) 362-1788. Abraham Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, built this Georgian Revival manor house overlooking the Battenkill Valley. The formal gardens, designed by his daughter Jessie Lincoln Beckwith, replicate a stained glass Gothic cathedral window with privet hedges and peonies, roses, lilies and other flowers. Period cutting and kitchen gardens have also been restored at the site. Little Siberia Perennials 966 Maston Hill Road, Granville, VT 05747 (802)767-3391. Located in the mountains at 1600 feet elevation, Zone 3 and 4 hardy perennials, heathers, shrubs, and roses are displayed in over 20 gardens at our retail nursery. Stroll through islands of color set against one of Vermont’s most dramatic backdrops. Park McCullough House Corner Park & West Streets, P.O. Box 388, North Bennington, VT 05257 (802)442-5441. This French Empire style mansion, home to two of Vermont's Governors, offers beautifully landscaped gardens and grounds. Rocky Dale Gardens 62 Rocky Dale Road, Bristol, VT 05443 (802)453-2782. This retail nursery, situated in a vale amidst rock ledges, offers display gardens with common and unusual trees and plants. See our Photo Feature of their evergreens Shelburne Farms 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-8686. This 1886 model agricultural estate, now an environmental education center, was created by William Seward and Lila Vanderbilt Webb with architect Robert H. Robertson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The naturalistically landscaped grounds, optimizing vistas of Lake Champlain, include a garden at the magnificent house and a market garden. Be sure to visit the amazing barn Shelburne Museum Route 7, Shelburne, VT 05482 (802)985-3346. Founded in 1947 by Electra Havemeyer Webb, a collector of every kind of Americana from circus figurines to buildings to a paddlewheel steamer, this wonderful 45 acre museum features over 35 historic buildings placed in a park-like setting designed by Umberto Innocenti. Gardens include the Apothecary Herb Garden (medicinal herbs), the Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery Garden (culinary herbs and plants for dyes), the Electra Bostwick Memorial Garden (annuals, perennials and roses arranged like an artist's palette), the Pleissner Gallery Garden, and collections of lilacs (400 bushes of 90 varieties) and crabapples (200 trees) University of Vermont Horticultural Research Center Green Mountain Drive, South Burlington, VT (802)658-9166 (Manager) or (802)864-3073 (Friends). The 97 acre "Hort. Farm" displays 700 kinds of ornamental trees and shrubs, many of them uncommon or unique. Special collections include apples, crabapples (210 specimens of 135 varieties), lilacs (90 varieties), junipers (60 varieties), and a labelled perennial display border Vermont Community Botanical Garden Corner of Dorset and Swift Streets, South Burlington, VT. Still a gleam in its creators' eyes (The National Gardening Association), this proposed botanical garden now has an office in an historic estate at a proposed site and is beginning fund raising. It will eventually offer formal gardens, a winter garden, a natural amphitheater, a gazebo, a butterfly garden, a children's garden, a maze, a secret garden, a wildlife garden, an arboretum, herbs, a dwarf variety orchard, and an ethnic heritage garden Vermont Wildflower Farm 4750 Shelburne Road (Route 7 at Ferry Road), Charlotte , VT 05445 (802)425-3641. This wildflower seed company's headquarters offers paths with signs through two flower fields and a woodland with a brook and pond Botanical Gardens in New Hampshire's Great North Woods The beautiful gardens at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, in Dixville Notch, are a world unto itself. Almost 35,000 plants and flowers turn the resort into a picturesque oasis nestled into the state's White Mountains. You can walk around the five major garden areas on your own or take a walking tour (in the summers only) Botanical Gardens in New Hampshire's Seacoast Area Located in Brentwood, New Hampshire, the Rockingham County Botanical Gardens are a part of the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners. The Rockingham County Botanical Gardens specialize in local flora and are open to the pubic only on Thursdays from April-mid-October Botanical Gardens in Northern Vermont The University of Vermont's Waterfront Park area is a cooperative effort on the part of Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation and the University of Vermont. The park's gardens feature several garden beds containing perennial flowers as well as annual flowers. The gardens at the University of Vermont's Waterfront Park are an official display garden of the All America Selections program The Vermont Botanical Gardens in South Burlington Home to a winter garden, a natural amphitheater, a gazebo, a children's garden, a maze, a “secret” garden, a butterfly garden, a wildlife garden, an arboretum, a dwarf variety orchard, an ethnic heritage garden, and some herbs Central Vermont's Experimental Cold-Hardy Cactus Garden Located on Halladay Road in Middlebury, Vermont, is the Vermont Experimental Cold-Hardy Cactus Garden, a non-profit botanical garden specializing in cactus and other succulents, such as opunitas, euphorbias, yuccas, agaves, and sedum. The garden is open to the public, but as it is on a private residence, one should call in advance before visiting