The Nantucket Garden Festival highlights the unique and beautiful garden ecosystems on Nantucket and focuses on the importance of sustainability, conservation and gardening ethics for the long-term health of the island. Nantucket Garden Festival celebrates gardening through creative lectures and workshops, exquisite garden tours, and children’s activities.
Schedule of Events:
9:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Walking Tour with Lindsay Mohr of Mohr Gardening
$190 per person
Join Lindsay Mohr, esteemed owner of Mohr Gardening, on an inspiring journey through some of Nantucket’s most exquisite private gardens. With her wealth of knowledge and passion for horticulture, Lindsay will guide attendees on a walking tour, unveiling a tapestry of gardens that vary in size, scope, and botanical splendor. From quaint, intimate spaces bursting with delicate blooms to sprawling landscapes adorned with majestic trees and vibrant perennials, each garden tells a unique story of design and cultivation. Lindsay will share insights into the artistry behind these private sanctuaries, offering tips on plant selection, landscaping techniques, and the harmonious balance of flora and fauna.
The tour will depart from the Pocket Park at Fair Street and Main Street, across from Murray’s Toggery Shop.
Location: Fair Street Pocket Park Nantucket, MA, 02554
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Keynote Lecture & Luncheon with Tony Spencer, The New Perennialist
$375 per person
Join us for an elegant luncheon at Straight Wharf Restaurant featuring Keynote Speaker Tony Spencer. Tony Spencer is the Canadian writer, photographer, and planting designer behind The New Perennialist. He is recognized and published internationally in the world of naturalistic garden design. In 2024 Tony won his second top Landscape Design Award of Excellence for his Alvar Green Roof project from the Perennial Plant Association (PPA) and in 2023 was named PPA Garden Media Promoter of the year. Day to day, Tony is a puckish leader for the naturalistic movement with over 85k followers on social media. He is currently working on a book about Wildscaping.
In the post-wild countryside of Ontario, Canada, Tony Spencer is conducting a series of open experiments to combine naturalistic planting design with blue green infrastructure into a fluid ecological art form. Working on the local level, he cultivates his universal concept of Wildscaping. This is about using plant-driven landscape design to create and sustain dynamic garden spaces, filled with beauty and wildlife, to rekindle our relationship to the natural world. The focus of this talk is how to link home to landscape in a symbiotic loop to build new nature and adapt to the inevitable extremes of the new climate.
Limited seating is available; secure your place for an inspiring experience that blends culinary excellence with visionary design.
Location: Straight Wharf Restaurant 6 Harbor Square, Nantucket, MA, 02554
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM - Walking Tour with Lindsay Mohr of Mohr Gardening
$190 per person
Join Lindsay Mohr, esteemed owner of Mohr Gardening, on an inspiring journey through some of Nantucket’s most exquisite private gardens. With her wealth of knowledge and passion for horticulture, Lindsay will guide attendees on a walking tour, unveiling a tapestry of gardens that vary in size, scope, and botanical splendor. From quaint, intimate spaces bursting with delicate blooms to sprawling landscapes adorned with majestic trees and vibrant perennials, each garden tells a unique story of design and cultivation. Lindsay will share insights into the artistry behind these private sanctuaries, offering tips on plant selection, landscaping techniques, and the harmonious balance of flora and fauna.
The tour will depart from the Pocket Park at Fair Street and Main Street, across from Murray’s Toggery Shop.
Location: Fair Street Pocket Park Nantucket, MA, 02554
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