Holliston Garden Club Hosts Garden Tour June 13 & 14

On June 13th and 14th, the Holliston Garden Club will host a tour of six local gardens, offering both professional and amateur design for inspiration. The Tour will be held, rain or shine, on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Sunday from 12 noon to 4 p.m. 

Tickets are $10 each.

The professionals on this year’s tour include the gardens of local landscaper Mark Ahronian, whose personal home garden mixes historically correct details with the needs of modern family life. 

Local designer Mark Cooperman’s gardens put a contemporary spin on garden design with Asian influences. The garden of local arborist Rolf Briggs and his wife Barbara Keene Briggs offer a display of diversity with an eye toward native plants and trees.

In addition, three amateur gardeners on this tour prove that passion and dedication can produce spectacular results. The gardens in this category offer examples of gardening in special circumstances – shade gardening, gardening in small spaces, and turning a builder’s special into a charming and colorful perennial garden.

Garden Club tours raise money to develop and maintain public gardens in the town for all of its citizens to enjoy. Our first two tours opened over 15 local gardens to the public and raised money to fund a number of new and ongoing civic projects, including:

• The Holliston Recycling Center on Marshall Street

Tour funds helped us develop a low maintenance, deer and drought resistant garden from what had been weed and garbage filled plots at the entrance to the town recycling center. This project has won the Garden Club a number of awards.

• Arbor Day Tree Plantings

Every year the Club donates a tree to the town of Holliston in honor of Arbor Day. Town hall, the public golf course, the police station and the public library have all had trees planted by the club, and this year’s tree – a Winter King Hawthorne – was planted at the High School.

• Town Beautification

The Garden Club maintains public plantings throughout the town as part of our Beautification project, including the town’s veteran’s memorials, the historic water trough by Town Hall and several traffic islands. The club also designed and maintains the gardens at the public library, which were included on the first garden tour in 2005.

Tickets for the garden tour are $10 and are available at Out Post Farm, Coffee Haven and Mulch n’ More in Holliston, or on line at www.hollistongardenclub.org . Call 508-429-4395 for more information.