WEST NEWBURY — The West Newbury Garden Club hosts Art in the Garden on June 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., focusing on six gardens: three in West Newbury and three in Merrimac.
The club hopes visitors will view the gardens on the tour as the work of art that it is: an expression of personal effort, knowledge and purpose of its gardener. While discovering the gardens, visitors will be treated to hearing background music or musicians playing and will be able to glimpse area visual artists at work.
The six gardens vary in size, purpose and development. One was created by its owner, a floral designer and artist, another by someone who earned a graduate certificate in landscape design, a third by its host, who has a horticultural degree, who found over 500 overgrown black spruce trees when she moved to her home many years ago and quickly got to work. Some gardens are designed specifically to attract pollinators, others to create aesthetically pleasing landscapes.
Several gardeners attribute their own interest in horticulture to the efforts of their grandparents who taught them the basics and whom they honor with their present “art.”
Visitors will see large and small gardens, a garden created to take visitors back to its house’s 1710 atmosphere, and a garden designed to play off the hardscape that surrounds it.
Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the tour. Advance tickets can be purchased at the West Newbury GAR Memorial Library, 490 Main St., West Newbury and at the West Newbury Food Mart, 275 Main St. They can also be purchased through Eventbrite. Tickets will be available at each garden and at West Newbury Town Hall, Route 113, West Newbury, on the day of the sale.