The MHS Horticulture Center at Elm Bank is the home to a number of enjoyable events during New England's warmer days. From the Society Row Plant Sale in late spring to the Massachusetts Marketplace Festival in late summer, you can count on MHS to provide opportunties for people and plants to come together.

We are also planning some special events for fall and winter, including a Fall Celebration in October and a Festival of Trees at the end of November.

Here's what's coming up this year:

Elm Bank Antique Auto Show
Sunday, June 27 2010, 9:30am - 3:30pm

Do you love old cars? Or maybe even own one. . . It's time to get yourself or your antique, classic or special interest auto ready for the sixth annual Elm Bank Antique Auto Show on Sunday, June 27, 2010. There are over 36 acres at Elm Bank to display your vehicle and browse the swap meet area. A food court will provide food and drinks, and oldies music will fill the air. (read more)

Antiques at Elm Bank
Saturday, July 24 - Sunday July 25

The 5th annual Antiques at Elm Bank is slated for Saturday and Sunday, July 24^th and 25^th on the beautiful grounds of Elm Bank. Antiques will be displayed in outdoor tents surrounded by lush gardens with a select number of dealers to be showcased inside the Hunnewell Building. (read more)

Massachusetts Marketplace Festival
Saturday, August 7

Featuring the finest products from the region’s fields, farms, gardens and kitchens. Over 60 vendors offering new and locally produced food products, crafts,garden ornaments and gift. There will also be a plant sale and garden tours. (read more)

MassHort Wine Festival
Sunday, September 19

Love wine? Love food? Love gardens? Mark your calendar for Sunday, September 19, 2010 at Elm Bank as MassHort hosts its first Wine Festival.

It will be a spectacular full day of wine tasting, superb food, a wine auction and garden tours, all held on the grounds of Elm Bank. There will be more than a hundred wines to taste, a Champagne brunch, celebrity chefs and wine experts.

September 22: All-day Symposium for the Serious Home Gardener

Reprising last year’s standing-room-only symposium, MassHort and the Perennial Plant Association will hold a full-day series of talks built around the theme, “Exploring Design, Plant Selection, and Maintenance of the Mixed Border”.

Speakers will include Adrian Bloom of Blooms of Bresshingham, Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farm, Kirk Brown of Joanne Kostecky Garden Design, Kerry Mendez of Perennially Yours, Brent Heath of Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, and Laura Deeter of Ohio State University.

The registration fee is $95 before September 14, $110 after that date.

The program includes lunch. More infomation and registration forms can be found here.

Please contact MassHort at 617-933-4995 to register.

September 23: An Evening with Adrian Bloom
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

It is an occasion to see one of the most stunning gardens on Cape Cod. It is the chance to spend an evening talking with one of the great plantsmen of our time. And, it is the opportunity to support a very worthwhile cause.

On Thursday, September 23, the consummate landscaper Paul Miskovsky will open his Falmouth garden for an evening of conversation with one of the legends of the horticultural world, Adrian Bloom. Bloom, as you probably know, is associated with Blooms of Bressingham, which has introduced some of the world’s most talked-about perennials. Many of those introductions can be seen at the Bloom-designed 46,000-square-foot Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank.

Paul Miskovsky’s garden is his statement as a landscaper and is a masterpiece of design and visual delight. Its centerpiece is a 90-foot-long waterfall that cascades down a densely planted hillside. The ever-changing garden draws on Paul’s extensive horticultural knowledge to incorporate unusual botanical specimens and intriguing juxtapositions of form, sound and color. The garden will be at its peak in late September.

Click here for a slideshow of Paul Miskovsky's garden in Cape Cod.

You will be able to explore the garden and talk with Adrian Bloom while enjoying wine, cocktails and hors d’oeurves. All proceeds from the evening benefit the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Tickets, which are tax-deductible, are $150 per person. To register, click here or contact our reservation line at 617-933-4995.

Festival of Trees
November 20 through December 5

It’s never too soon to block off some time for a special event, and from November 20 through December 5, Elm Bank will again host an annual tradition: the MassHort Festival of Trees.

Imagine the Hunnewell Building – the beautiful, converted carriage house on the grounds of Elm Bank - filled to overflowing with decorated trees. Trees that celebrate art or music, or the Red Sox, the beach, Cinderella, America, Disney characters, gardening, golfing or anything else you can imagine.

Then, imagine you and your family after a day or shopping and very much in need of a respite from it all. That’s where the Festival of Trees comes in: a little bit of pure holiday joy amid the commercialism.

The trees, all “near real” will be decorated by a myriad of groups, societies and clubs. There will be a “Trustee’s Tree”, a “Volunteer Tree”, a “Master Gardeners” Tree, a “Garden Club” Tree, “Children’s Trees” and many, many more! (read more)