To celebrate Arbor Day 2008 on Friday, April 25, the Wakefield staff hosted an intergenerational planting of five fruit trees in the apple orchard.  Seniors from Fuller Village joined intrepid youngsters from the neighborhood and planted four apple trees and one pear tree.  The five young trees are part of this year’s effort to reinvigorate the orchard through new plantings […]

Staff from the Wakefield Charitable Trust and the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain teamed up to host the year’s first pruning workshop at the Wakefield Estate on Saturday March 29th. After nearly a 45 minute overview of the theory and practive of pruning, nearly two dozen avid gardeners and budding arborists (no pun intended!) braved cold and windy conditions and […]

On the otherwise raining and dreary weekend of March 1-2, the Massachusetts Camellia Society (MCS) held its annual show and competition at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain.  Erica Max, Landscape Supervisor at the Wakefield Charitable Trust, entered a number of Camellia blooms from Polly Wakefield’s collection.  Polly loved her Camellia collection and tended to them for many years.  She […]