Maple Hill Gardeners Working in the Maple Hill Gardens at Beaver Brook
Maple Hill Gardeners Digging Up and Dividing Perennials - May, 2007
Maple Hill Gardeners Planting Annuals in The Herb Oval - May, 2007
Maple Hill Gardeners Working in the Maple Hill Gardens at Beaver Brook
Maple Hill Gardeners Digging Up and Dividing Perennials - May, 2007
Maple Hill Gardeners Planting Annuals in The Herb Oval - May, 2007
Maple Hill Gardeners getting the gardens ready for Summer Solstice - June, 2007
Maple Hill Gardeners cutting lavender and pruning shrubs - July, 2007
(Below) Maple Hill Gardeners remove plants from Alice's Rockery
and prune a tree in The Fragrance Garden - July, 2007
Maple Hill Gardeners and a young volunteer clean up The Shade Garden - August, 2007
The goal of the Maple Hill Gardeners is to enhance the Association's gardens for visitor enjoyment and education. Towards that end, the gardeners meet on Monday mornings at Beaver Brook from 9:30 - 12:00 and assist with all phases of outdoor gardening. These include: opening the gardens, planting the annuals, pruning the shrubs, mulching, transplanting, weeding, watering, harvesting flowers for dried arrangements, and more. In 2007, Elizabeth (Liz) Brown returns for a ninth year to lead the Maple Hill Gardeners in their efforts to maintain and enhance the gardens at Beaver Brook.
Beth Rogers - Special Merit Award
Winner at
Beaver Brook's Fall Festival, 2007
At Beaver Brook's 2007 Fall Festival, Beth Rogers won the Volunteer-of-Special-Merit award. Beth is a tireless worker, staying past the normal quitting hour of noon, to help fellow gardeners finish their tasks in the gardens. She has spent an enormous amount of time helping the gardeners during Fall Festival each year, both at the workshops and during the festival itself. Beth's easy-going personality enables her to get along well with others; it's a pleasure working with her from one week to the next in the gardens! We congratulate her on this well-deserved award.
Besides opening and closing the gardens, the Maple Hill Gardeners ready the gardens for Beaver Brook's Solstice celebration which arrives mid-June of each year. The Summer Solstice celebration is free to the public. Everyone is invited to bring a picnic dinner, sit among the gardens, and enjoy the ambiance.
In August, the gardeners get together for three half-day workshops, where they put together dried flower arrangements from the flowers they have dried in the summer from the drying and cutting beds at Beaver Brook. They also create wreaths, seasonal decorations, and other unique items that they sell at Beaver Brook's Fall Festival, which is held each September at Beaver Brook in Hollis, New Hampshire.
Here are two photos of The Little Barn at Beaver Brook during Fall Festival, where the gardeners sold their dried flower arrangements, home-made goodies, hot mulled cider, seasonal decorations, and other items to raise funds for plants and mulch for the gardens.
During December, the Maple Hill Gardeners come together for an end-of-the-year gathering. This luncheon offers the gardeners an opportunity to reflect upon the previous year's activities, choose plantings for spring, and set goals for next year's gardening season.
End-of-the-year Gathering of the Maple Hill Gardeners
If you are interested in learning more about the Maple Hill Gardeners, please contact Beaver Brook (Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST). If you would like to know more about what the gardeners specifically do in the gardens from April to October, please click on Volunteer Gardening at Beaver Brook. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
Fax: (603) 465-9546
Email: info@beaverbrook.org
Mail: 117 Ridge Road, Hollis, NH 03049