Science Center hosts Kirkwood Gardens Day

The Squam Lakes Natural Science Center is hosting Kirkwood Gardens Day on Saturday, June 12, 2004, beginning at 9:00 a.m. under the tent in the Kirkwood Gardens, Route 3 in Holderness. From 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. there will be a perennial and annual plant sale with old favorites plus unusual and hard-to find specimens from New England wholesale nurseries and the best gardeners in the area. The sale will also include barn and garden treasures and Kirkwood Gardens hats and shirts. Vendors of handmade baskets, herbs, wrought iron objects, nature related photographs and gardening items will be selling their wares at the sale. Experts will also be on hand to answer gardening questions.

A silent auction of hanging plants and outstanding perennials and annuals will take place from 9:00 am - noon. From 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., homemade sandwiches, cookies and cold drinks will be available for sale. All proceeds from the event will go toward the care and maintenance of the Kirkwood Gardens.

Beginning at 10 a.m. in the Red Barn, a slide lecture titled “How to Plant and Use Containers” will be held. Andrew Bunting, Curator of the Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore, Penn. and Caroline Eells, Horticulturalist at the Tyler Arboretum, Media, Penn. will show that with an assortment of containers and different plant material, you can create beautiful displays for terraces and porches and gratifying solutions to gardening problems. There is a $5.00 admission for the lecture, payable at the door.

No reservations are required to attend Kirkwood Gardens Day plant sale and the fee for the lecture may be paid at the Kirkwood Gardens on the day of the sale. For more information, call the Science Center at (603) 968-7194 or visit www.nhnature.org. This event is generously sponsored by Belknap Landscape Company in Gilford.