Annual Garden Club June Tour -- No Overnight

An Update from Laurie McAleer:

Cynthia Hosmer's Brave Boat Harbor Farm has been evolving for 60 years.

   The trip to Portsmouth and York, Maine will be Saturday the 9th of June--one day, no overnight. We will leave Ipswich at 9am on Saturday at the Town Hall parking lot-- car-pooling as best as we can. Our first stop is Cynthia Hosmer's garden in York.  Her garden was recommended to us by Fred Rice and he says her gardens are spectacular and well-worth stopping to see.

Layout of Brave Boat Harbor Farm

   This garden has been evolving over the last fifty years. It surrounds and complements a Georgian-style stone house. There are formal and informal borders, a vegetable garden, orchards, and collections of various flowering trees and shrubs. Apples and pears are espaliered on the house and along the walls of the formal front garden. Water features include a newly expanded pond in the woodland garden, a farm pond with rustic bridge, and the Atlantic Ocean. This treasure is protected by a sculpted arborvitae hedge on the northwest, a mature stand of hickory on the northeast, and an extensive screen of old lilacs on the south. New projects include expanding the collection of magnolias and rhododendrons, introducing hydrangeas, an espaliered pear fence, a woodland walk, and a summerhouse with views to the pond and the sea.
 
   We will have a lunch at her house, set up ahead by Cynthia. She will order sandwich wraps of chicken salad. Bring your own drinks and extras. After the visit and lunch, we will head to Portsmouth and meet at the Strawbery Banke to visit their gardens and enjoy the area.

Goodwin Garden at Strawbery Banke

The next stop will be another garden in town which we will surprise everyone as to it's location; then heading home .

We need a head count!!  Please email Laurie McAleer ASAP . 

jacksonlodge@yahoo.com

Thanks,

lm

Here is your map to Cynthia Hosmer's Garden.

Map to Brave Boat Harbor Farm