Massachusetts Horticulture Society

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Six gorgeous island beds, totaling over 44,000 square feet, are the hallmarks of Adrian Bloom’s fifth and largest demonstration garden in the United States. Located in Wellesley, Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Elm Bank headquarters, this huge installation brought together volunteers for a mass planting on a scale like none other.

The one-acre site featured about 150 staff members, gardeners, retailers, commercial growers and garden writers planting hundreds of plants supplied by more than two dozen local and national nurseries and retailers. Bloom stopped often to review the design and plant choices with volunteers. The day’s activities also included speakers and demonstrations with other leading names in horticulture.

The theme for the day was “the right plant, in the right place,” and featured low-maintenance perennials, shrubs and trees. The design also included more than 500 plants of Geranium ‘Rozanne’ used to create rivers of flowers flowing through each bed.

The Massachusetts Horticultural Society is located at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Access to the 182-acre conservation and recreation site is free.