Boston Summer Garden Tour 2025 with host Charlie Nardozzi

Thirty-five travelers on an exciting journey to Boston July 8-9, 2025.

The first stop

The Worcester County Horticultural Society, founded in 1842, established New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston as a horticultural resource. We experienced the wonder of plants and learned about the natural world. Opened in 1986, the garden sits on 200 acres and includes conservatories, formal and naturalistic gardens, a café, Garden Shop, walking trails, accessible pathways, and expansive views of the Wachusett Reservoir.

Day 2

We traveled to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for a private tour. Isabella Gardner chose to site her Museum on the edge of the newly built Back Bay Fens, a part of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace, because she saw the potential for this new landscape to enable, inform, and enhance the city of Boston. Today the museum continues to recognize the importance of landscape architecture through its landscape department, landscape lectures, and landscape exhibitions. The gardens, both interior and exterior, are an integral part of the Gardner Museum experience today. She created an experience that was as much about flowers and plants, artfully arranged, as it was about masterpieces of art. The culmination of that vision is the Courtyard but botanical images was enjoyed throughout the Museum.