Tag: Generous Gardeners

Flowers

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The colors on the Stacy Boulevard are beautiful.  The bees are pollinating and walkers are enjoying the flowers.  The smell is wonderful as well.  Thank you, Generous Gardeners.

Flowers on the Boulevard

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On Sunday, Rick and I went walking on beautiful Stacy Boulevard.  The sun and blue ocean with flowers all around us, made for a wonderful afternoon.

Dahlia Tuber and Plant Sale

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Thank you, Generous Gardeners,

Saturday, June 6, 2026

9:00 AM to 12:00 or sell out

New location

By the tennis courts on Stacy Boulevard

Support Generous Gardeners and have a beautiful dahlia garden this year!

Generous Gardeners will be selling our extra dahlia tubers. All are marked and photos are available of each variety. $10 each. Buy 5 and get one free.

There will also be perennials dug from traffic islands and volunteer gardens for great deals.

2026 Generous Garden Tour

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2026 Garden Tour Tickets On Sale!

Reblogged from Generous Gardeners newsletter:

Join Generous Gardeners for the 14th annual Gloucester Garden Tour on Saturday, July 11th, 2026, from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM.  Tour the scenic, coastal, and historic eastern shore of Gloucester, a popular summer destination for affluent Boston families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the grand homes from that era with equally beautiful gardens still stand, and several are included on our tour.  Each owner approaches gardening differently, so you will be treated to a range of formal designs to cottage gardens, and an amazing garden that is a garden tour in itself. There is a tea house, a classic orchid greenhouse, and spectacular ocean views. Generous Gardeners is pleased to present these stunning properties that are seldom open to the public.  Shuttle buses will be available to help guests enjoy this year’s 3-mile round trip, self-guided tour.

Tickets/booklets and wrist bands will be picked up at the Stop and Stop parking lot at 6 Thatcher Road near the CVS.  Given the exclusivity of the tour area, there are four different parking locations to be shared when you pick up your ticket. Parking is on a first-come, first-serve basis and is not guaranteed.

Order Your 2026 Garden Tour Tickets Today!

Buy Tickets

 

 

2026 Gloucester Garden Tour: SAVE THE DATE

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Reblogged from Generous Gardeners Newsletter:

Here is a good thought: July 11, 2026: Garden Tour

 

2026 Gloucester Garden Tour

Saturday July 11, 2026 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM

Join Generous Gardeners for the 14th annual Gloucester Garden Tour on Saturday, July 11th, 2026, from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM.  Tour the scenic, coastal, and historic eastern shore of Gloucester, a popular summer destination for affluent Boston families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the grand homes from that era with equally beautiful gardens still stand, and several are included on our tour.  Each owner approaches gardening differently, so you will be treated to a range of formal designs to cottage gardens, and an amazing garden that is a garden tour in itself. There is a tea house, a classic orchid greenhouse, and spectacular ocean views. Generous Gardeners is pleased to present these stunning properties that are seldom open to the public.  Shuttle buses will be available to help guests enjoy this year’s 3-mile round trip, self-guided tour.

Tickets/booklets and wrist bands will be picked up at the Stop and Stop parking lot at 6 Thatcher Road near the CVS.  Given the exclusivity of the tour area, there are four different parking locations to be shared when you pick up your ticket. Parking is on a first-come, first-serve basis and is not guaranteed.

Order Your 2026 Garden Tour Tickets Today!

For questions contact Susan Kelly susan@generousgardeners.org or 781-346-1363

Gloucester’s gorgeous Stacy Boulevard

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Thank you to the Generous Gardeners for all their hard work and dedication.

Thank you, Generous Gardeners,

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Taking a quick walk on the Boulevard on Wednesday, the colors of the flowers were glowing with the light rain.

Flowers on Stacy Boulevard

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When walking Stacy Boulevard, stop and smell the flowers.  Thank you to Generous Gardeners for all their hard work keeping Gloucester’s Boulevard beautiful.

Generous Gardeners

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Reblogged from Generous Gardeners newsletter

Generous Gardeners will be selling extra dahlia tubers from the Stacy Boulevard gardens.  They are a great deal for wonderful varieties at $10 each or 2 for $15.  We have many dinnerplate and other showy varieties available as well as the tried and true that make great cut flowers.

 

Support the Boulevard gardens and have a beautiful garden yourself this year.  We will sell until sold out, but come early for the best selection!

 

 

Dahlia Tuber Sale

Wednesday

June 4th, 11th and 18th

9:00-12:00
at the Generous
Gardeners Sheds
Hough Ave and
Stacy Boulevard

 

 

Upcoming events with Generous Gardeners

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This wonderful group of volunteers has some events for your spring and summer.

4 dates for plant sales and a great Garden Tour.

Spring on the Stacy Boulevard

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Gloucester’s Stacy Boulevard is so charming and beautiful.  Many citizens and visitors enjoy the beauty the ocean and the flowers.  Thank you, Mother Nature, and Generous Gardeners.

Thank you Generous Gardeners

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Reblogged from Generous Gardeners Newsletter

The most beautiful event of the year is the

Generous Gardeners

Stacy Boulevard Dahlia Bouquet Sale

Saturday October 12th at 10:00

by the tennis courts

Generous Gardeners volunteers will be making arrangements for sale to the public.  We will have vases or plastic sleeves for you to take the flowers home.  The dahlias are spectacular this year, so be sure to see the show of flowers before this event.  Arrangements will not be set aside or pre-sold.

We do expect the flowers to continue blooming, so if you cannot make this event, Antonietta will continue to make arrangements until first frost.  After that we will be digging out the plants to store for the winter.  We will not be selling tubers this fall, any extra dahlia tubers will be sold at our spring plant sale on May 17, 2025.

We have lots of daylilies that we just divided from the beds surrounding the Merchant Marine Anchor on the Boulevard.  These are beautiful plants that we will be selling for $1 each, so amazing deals can be made on Saturday.

Thank you for your support.

Susan Kelly

781-346-1363

Antonietta Calabrese

978-907-2675

 

 

Strolling through Stacy Boulevard’s Garden

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Thank you, Generous Gardeners, for your hard work and dedication bringing beauty to Stacy Boulevard.

Cape Ann Plein

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On Sunday the artist were painting in our beautiful gardens on Stacy Boulevard.  Thank you, Generous Gardeners, for all your hard work.

Generous Gardeners

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Re-blogged from the Generous Gardners newsletter

Dear Generous Gardener Supporter,

Generous Gardeners is honored to have been nominated by a listener for GBH’s weekly “Joy Beat,” which aired July 5th and features news stories about real people doing the hard work to make their communities and world a better place. The nomination was based on the joy found in appreciating the beauty of the outdoors, and how the connection with nature can rejuvenate the spirit and come with solid health benefits.

The listener called in to share her appreciation for those who keep her city, Gloucester, beautiful and in bloom, saying: “Just an incredible brigade who work to plant dahlias and tulips — beautiful gardens all over the city of Gloucester. Traffic islands, the Boulevard… just the most innocuous little corner where it’s just filled with flowers. It’s just a remarkable, remarkable group.”

Generous Gardener’s founder, Susan Kelly, and dahlia expert, Antonietta Calabrese, sat down with Arun Rath of GBH’s “All Things Considered” program to discuss the joy of gardening and the impact that their organization has had on the city of Gloucester. Beginning 12 years ago with the idea of online plant-swapping, the now 80-volunteer, non-profit organization has transformed the city’s waterfront and 48 other garden spaces with colorful blossoms from May until late fall. Boulevard plantings alone now include dozens of roses, hundreds of lilies, tulips, annuals, perennials and more – and over 2,000 dahlias! Susan and Antonietta discuss the work involved in planting and maintaining the beds, as well as protecting them from winter storms.

To help fund beautification, Generous Gardeners just completed their 12th garden tour of 15 beautiful, private gardens on Wheeler’s Point in Gloucester.  The tour is an annual event in a different Gloucester neighborhood each year and one of the organization’s biggest fundraisers.

We are grateful to the garden tour’s homeowners, our donors, admirers, and all who help to support our organization – and proud of the happiness we bring to our community.

Fondly,
– Susan Kelly
– Antonietta Calabrese

WGBH Joy Beat, July 5, 2024, read or listen here:
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-07-09/meet-the-generous-gardeners-that-have-helped-gloucester-bloom

Generous Gardeners:
https://generousgardeners.org/