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New England Botanic Garden. New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is a 200-acre four season botanic garden located in Boylston, Massachusetts, approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of central Worcester in Worcester County, Massachusetts. [1] The Garden features 18 distinct garden spaces, preserved woodlands, and miles of walking trails.
The Gardens at Elm Bank, home of Massachusetts Horticultural Society, occupies 36 acres (15 ha) of Elm Bank Reservation, [1] a 175-acre (71 ha) [2] recreational area of woodlands, fields, and former estate property on the Charles River managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. [3]
The Stevens–Coolidge House and Gardens, formerly known as Ashdale Farm, is a garden and historic house located on 91 acres (37 ha) of land at 153 Chickering Road in North Andover, a town in Essex County, Massachusetts. Helen Stevens Coolidge's family first acquired the farm in 1729, and from 1914 to 1962 it served as a summer home that she ...
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Massachusetts is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Massachusetts [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Agriculture in Massachusetts. Greenhouse farming in East Lexington. As of 2012, there were 7,755 farms in Massachusetts encompassing a total of 523,517 acres (2,120 km 2), averaging 67.5 acres (27.3 hectares) apiece, [1] but by 2017 this had declined somewhat again, to 7,241 farms in the state. [2] Greenhouse, floriculture, and sod products ...
Sculpture and pond at Field Farm. Field Farm is a 316-acre (1.28 km 2) nature preserve and farm in Williamstown, Massachusetts, managed by the Trustees of Reservations.There are 4.5 miles (7.2 km) of hiking trails on the reservation, which pass by swamp land, a pond, and the "Caves Lot" which features underground channels that water had cut into the limestone there. [1]
April 14, 1988. The Hunnewell Estates Historic District is an historic district between the Charles River and Lake Waban in Wellesley and Natick, Massachusetts, about 17 miles west of Boston. It consists of the large group of 18th to 21st century agricultural and estate properties with farmland, gardens, residences, and landscapes of the ...
Heritage Museums and Gardens (100 acres), formerly the Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, is located at 67 Grove Street, Sandwich, Massachusetts.The public garden, with its nationally significant collection of rhododendrons hybridized by Charles Dexter, over 1,000 varieties of daylilies and extensive hosta collection, is complemented by three gallery buildings containing a world-class collection ...