For this year’s Garden Party we are adding something new! Our annual fundraiser and celebration is timed to coincide with the blooming of hundreds of kousa dogwood trees, propagated by the late Polly Wakefield. The garden party features live music, wonderful food and beverage, a silent auction and a chance to visit one of Milton’s spectacular gardens at the height […]

Join us at the 5h Annual Dogwood Days Garden Party here at the historic Wakefield Estate and arboretum. This year, the party will be the final crowning event of our Dogwood Days, an annual celebration of the estate’s 300 kousa dogwood trees’ glorious full bloom. The Dogwood Days Garden Party is our annual fundraiser, celebrating the legacy of Polly Wakefield […]

Dogwood Days is a week-long celebration of the legacy of Polly Wakefield and the extraordinary gift she gave to the community in preserving the Wakefield Estate and making it open to the public. , This annual celebration is timed to offer visitors to enjoy the estate’s 300 kousa dogwood trees’ in glorious full bloom. The Garden Party will be the […]

We are excited to announce that we will launch regular public visiting hours again on Sunday afternoons beginning May 14th from 1:00- 4:00 pm. Our first open hours coincides with Mother’s Day, so that first day, we are hosting a garden tea starting at 3:00 pm in the Front Garden. $10 donation requested for adults attending tea. Reservations are requested if […]

The Wakefield Estate and the Milton Shade Tree Advisory Committee are collaborating for an Arbor Day Earth Celebration on Friday, April 21st from 11 am until 2 pm with a family-friendly program of activities. This event will have a “trees are great for the earth” emphasis- mashing Earth Day and Arbor Day with a fun range of activities including tree […]

This month, our 2017 Stone Soup and Speaker series concludes with remarks by Tom Palmer, of Neponset River Water Association. He will discuss the creation of Blue Hills Reservation, efforts to restore its woods and how those contributed to what we see today. Soup is served at 6:00 pm followed by the talk at 6:30. $10 suggested donation. Space is limited and this year’s series […]

The staff and Trustees are sad to say goodbye to Dave Cafaro, Buildings and Grounds Manager, and “the guy who can fix anything.” Dave has been a valued employee, colleague, and friend for over nine years. We wish him all the best with his new endeavors and promise to call him when the irrigation system breaks down! Good luck, Dave. We’ll really […]

Each year, the Wakefield Estate co-sponsors an annual lecture with the Thacher Montessori School in Milton that looks at some of the cutting edge issues in education and child development. This year’s lecture, The Power of Play and the Joy of Learning, is a fascinating talk about the role of play in learning and child development by noted psychologist Boston […]

Mushroom Propagation Workshop 4/8 Take home your own gourmet mushroom log for years of mushroom harvesting! Don’t miss the Wakefield Estate’s annual mushroom growing workshop on Saturday, April 8th from 9:00-11:30 am! After an introduction of different mushroom growing methods, we will teach you how to inoculate logs with shiitake mushroom spawn and send you home with your own “seeded” […]

This month, our Stone Soup and Speaker series continues with remarks by Alan Banks, Supervisory Park Ranger at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline. Banks will explore how industrial developments in the 19th century led Milton’s own visionary Charles Eliot tocreate Trustees of the Reservation and ultimately, the Boston Metropolitan Parks System, one of the first of […]