October 2 & 3

The Berkshires’ longest running and best-known community event. An old fashioned, family-oriented community festival with something for everyone, including rides, games, food, music, crafts, giant tag sale, and lots more. Parking fee includes admission.

If you are a vendor and would like to apply for a spot at the Harvest Festival, please download vendor cover letter and vendor application.

	October 16

Author, broadcaster and lecturer, Anthony has pioneered water-gardening techniques in Europe and South America, as well as the US, with more than 2,000 projects to his name over some 50 years. He is currently working on our pond, which was relined a year ago by Steve Levine, and will start an exciting new planting program this spring, with flowers never before seen at BBG. Meanwhile, the gardens created by last year’s Guest Gardeners, Martha Stewart, Page Dickey and Jack Staub, will continue to settle in and mature.

	December 3 – 5

Begin your holidays with a festive cocktail party on Friday, December 3 at the Garden! Enjoy early shopping from an amazing assortment of hand-made seasonal treasures.

On Saturday, December 4 from 10-5 and Sunday, December 5 from 10-3 this unique holiday shopping experience is open for all. Creative door hangings from The Gallery of Wreaths, hand-made fresh and dried greens, artisan-crafted jewelry and treasures galore, with extraordinary vendors, all in a twinkling winter wonderland. The ultimate “shop-local” weekend.

Looking for a hands on way to get involved? Sign up for holiday craft-making workshops to create your own masterpiece to purchase or to donate to our sale.

	May 1 through September 17

In the creative hands of top designers and architects, even the humble shed can be transformed into a magical garden getaway. Five lilliputian structures will reflect the far-flung creativity of local designers Annie Selke (Pine Cone Hill), Sarah and Peter Thorne (Thorne Furniture Design), New York City designer/architects James Shearron and Richard Bories, New York set producer Chase Booth, and Michael Devine of Michael Devine Home. Structures will be for sale, and proceeds benefit the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Curated by Matt Larkin.

Sheds donated by The Barn Raisers, Saugerties, NY

	June 5 through September 17

Six avant-garde artists explore the various forms and limits of the bench as outdoor sculpture. Designs embody modernism, sustainability, the “old souls” of timber and an attempt to find the balance and “inner truth” of materials, form and functionality. A structure on which to rest one’s weary feet, yes, but these works of art ask bigger questions of the visitor and her place in nature. Artists: Vivian Beer, Terence Dubreuil, Lisa Fedon, Jack Larimore, Douglas Thayer and Nico Yektai. The show is curated by Joyce Nereaux, a fine art dealer in Hudson, NY.

	July 17 through the season

Over a dozen dogs will be frolicking in the garden, though their willow root paws will be anchored in the ground! Twelve Northeast artists take a playful romp of unleashed imagination to remind us that gardens are places for mirth as well as horticulture. Each canine creation will bear the artist’s individual and distinctive signature style. The potted “dogs” will continue to flourish and develop throughout the season Participating artists include Cynthia Atwood, Tom Borgese, Susan Spencer Crowe, Michael Gellatly, Ryan Humphrey, Stephan Lanphear and Mitch Nash. All “Dogs” will be for sale and benefit the Garden.

	July 31 through the season

Building on last year’s popular container-garden exhibition, 10 professional gardeners will create containers that will push the envelope of convention. With plant material as varied as the imagination, these miniature botanical universes will reveal the wit and genius of our experts. Nature Contained will represent the work of Matt Zema – Zema's Nursery, Cindy Parson , Jenna O'Brien – Viridissima, Bob Hyland – Loomis Creek Nursery, Valerie Locher – Valerie Locher Horticulturists, Rob Gennari – Glendale Botanicals, Barbara Bockbrader – Campo di Fiori , Matt Larkin – Black Barn Farm Topiary, Dominick Palumbo – Moon In The Pond Farm, Martha Bryan – Shady Gate Design

	July 31 – August 1

Do you have the best single dahlia in the Berkshires? Is your radish the queen of the vegetable patch?. Gardeners strut their stuff at a two-day flower competition and designer display. There’s a category for every gardener of every age, young and old.

Download Flower Show Program (PDF)

Members enter Free.

	June 18, July 16 and August 20

The Berkshire Botanical Garden has again arranged for a series of Friday evening visits to spectacular private gardens. Enjoy this rare opportunity to roam these private spaces with the gardeners themselves, while enjoying wine and hors d'oeuvres in the beautiful waning light of the summer day. What better way to start the weekend! The dates: June 18, Molly’s Folly in Richmond, MA; July 16, Richard Brown Garden in Stockbridge, MA; August 20, Three Hills Farm in Richmond, MA. For reservations, contact the Garden. Admission is limited. Members $20, non-members$25; all three for $50/65.