The Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust will host its 6th annual Dogwood Days open garden celebration at the historic Wakefield Estate in Milton MA from Sunday, June 5 through Sunday, June 12, 10:00am – 4:00pm daily.  The opening day of the week-long celebration, Sunday, June 5, will feature a number of gardens in addition to the Wakefield Estate that will […]

The woods are full of fairies! Come join Artspace Milton and the Mary M.B. Wakefield Trust to build a home for a fairy or elf on the grounds of our beautiful estate. Participate in Nature Art activities. Refreshments will be served. Space is limited, so RSVP Early! Suggested donation of $10 per family. rsvp 

Help out at Volunteer Day at the Wakefield Estate May 9th from 9-12 noon Spring has arrived and the Wakefield Estate is very busy preparing for this year’s Dogwood Days festival June 14-21. There is lot of work to be done and a Volunteer Day is scheduled May 9th, 9:00 am-noon if you want to pitch in and help! Trees need […]

This month’s Stone Soup and Speaker event will offer a portrait of one of the estate’s pride and joy: the Dove Tree. Not commonly seen in most gardens, the dove tree or Davidii involucrata, is also known as the handkerchief or ghost tree because of its large white “handkerchief” like flowers and bracts that hang from every branch in May. Jen […]

If you’ve had enough of winter and are impatient for convincing signs that spring is here, join us for our spring floral decoration demonstration. Cedar Grove Gardens’ floral designer extraordinaire Lisa Ahern, will show how to create simple but dazzling decorations to brighten up your home using spring flowers, bulbs and kitchen garden plants. Those attending will leave with lots […]

Horticultural Triage: Assessing and Repairing Your Winter-damaged LandscapeAs this year’s record-breaking snow load recedes, it is revealing the extensive damage to our landscapes. We all know that this winter and all that snow has been brutal on plants, trees and shrubs, with many broken branches and limbs. Our Restorative Pruning Workshop, April 11, 9:00-11:30 am, led by the estate’s Landscape Director […]

Continuing with this year’s series theme offering “portraits” of “great trees,” this month’s Stone Soup will feature Debbie McElwaine, a Harvard Graduate student and neighbor who has researched the tree population near the estate on Hemenway Drive. Debbie’s topic will be the Metasequoia glyptostroboides or Dawn Redwood. Once thought to be extinct and rediscovered by “plant hunters” from the Arnold Arboretum, the […]

Become a backyard orchardist and grow your own fruit! Even with a small yard, you can enjoy fruit from your own trees with minimal effort and cost. This step-by-step workshop, to be held March 21 frrom 9:00-11:00 am, will teach you all you need to know to plan and create a compact orchard for years of enjoyment. Participants will spend […]

This month’s Stone Soup will feature Maggie Redfern, Assistant Director of Connecticut College Arboretum, continuing with this year’s series theme offering “portraits” of some of the great trees at the Wakefield Estate. Her talk will look at Malus domestica, our beloved Apple, of which Michael Pollan wrote, “it is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of […]

Have you been thinking of raising your own chickens and enjoying your own fresh eggs? Our annual Backyard Homesteading workshop on raising backyard chickens is a great way to explore the idea. This session, scheduled for February 7th from 9:00-11:30 a.m. is designed for people interested in learning how to start a backyard chicken coop and grow healthy, productive chickens […]