This Sunday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., enjoy Garden Conservancy Greater Boston Open Day. Start your day with a stroll through hundreds of kousa dogwoods here at the Wakefield Estate, host garden for this year’s Open Days Program. Then grab your map and head out to explore some of the area’s best gardens, all less than 10 miles […]

Dogwood Days 2014!June 8 – 14;10:00 am – 4:00 pm DAILY Each June, the Wakefield Estate welcomes visitors to celebrate the annual blooming of hundreds of Polly Wakefield’s kousa dogwood trees. This year’s Dogwood Days celebrates our organization’s 10th anniversary and will include a week full of special events, including open hours, guided tours, our tree and plant sale and […]

Join us for a day of fun for families and four-legged friends featuring “dog” related activities. Enjoy a yummy “dog” at our Hot Dog stand before entering your pooch in ourlight-hearted dog show at 1:00 for kids and adults where every dog gets a ribbon. The whole family can enjoy a stroll in the garden and grounds, check out the […]

The Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust will host a garden party on June 7th to celebrate its 10th anniversary and the centennial year of its founder, Mary “Polly” Wakefield. Join your friends for a delightful evening of music, wonderful food and drinks and a silent auction, surrounded by the beautiful gardens planted by Polly Wakefield. Tickets are $50 per person and […]

We hope you have plans to join us at our special Love your mother…Earth! Mayfest on Saturday from 1-4. The day will feature musical entertainment, art activities for kids, interactive installations and a scavenger hunt! This program is co-sponsored by the Wakefield Estate, Artspace Milton, and Sustainable Milton and partly funded through a grant from Milton Junior Women’s Club. For more […]

Registration open for 2014 Summer Archaeology Institute at the Wakefield Estate The Wakefield Estate’s Summer Archaeology Institute is designed for high school students interested in learning about archaeology and local history. Participants conduct an actual archaeological excavation on site under the direction of graduate students from Boston University. The institute is a two-week course that includes a field trip to visit other […]

Join us for the final 2014 Stone Soup and Speakers Series event, April 24 at 5:30 p.m., featuring Susan Martin, Manuscript Processor from Mass Historical Society overseeing the cataloguing of the Polly Wakefield’s family papers. Continuing with this year’s series theme “untold stories in attics and archives,” Susan will share vignettes of those who lived at the Wakefield Estate, based […]

Mark your calendars! With the arrival of spring, it is time for the estate’s three sheep to be sheared again and we’ve scheduled our Spring Shearing Day for May 10 at 10 a.m. Maisy, Daisy and Binney are now three and have grown a heavy coat of fleece since last spring. We’ve invited Kevin Ford, America’s foremost “blade” (hand) sheepshearer, back […]

Join us for the third 2014 Stone Soup and Speakers Series, March 27 at 5:30 p.m., featuring Tim Kernan, a Milton resident, who will share a collection of vintage photos taken by his grandmother. Continuing with this year’s series theme “untold stories in attics and archives,” the photos were found in several circa 1910 albums, are of many properties along Brush Hill […]

Join us for this very special pruning workshop, designed as a “practicum” for folks who have taken pruning classes here, at the Arboretum, or elsewhere. One of our staff certified arborists leads this session, affording a “hands-on” opportunity to practice what you’ve learned, and to learn even more! Most of the session will be held outdoors, so dress accordingly. While we will have some tools […]