Northeast Chapter

American Bamboo Society

S P R I N G F L I N G

Saturday May 3rd

Where: 427 Horseneck Road

South Dartmouth, MA 02748

Please join us for a weekend of bamboo: learn about growing bamboo, visit private gardens with bamboo, talk bamboo,gourmet Lunch and more !

Fund-raising Auction offering hardy and hard-to-find bamboos !

R.S.V.P & for more information: contact Ned or Elizabeth Newton at

508-636-4920 or

ChapterPages/NEChapterInfo.html

Price Schedule for Saturday

Non-Members: $5.00 to join in for the day. Includes a spouse and children.

Lunch: $10.00 for a delightful lunch: wine, lager, home made New England Clam Chowder, and sandwiches with snacks. Salads and what ever else we can collect as time and energy permits.

Raw Bar: $12.00 for local fun: clams and oysters, assuming that the winds and tides are favorable and the bivalves are abundant.

Schedule for the Day

Saturday, May 3rd

8:30 to 9:00a.m. arriving.

9:00 to 9:30a.m. walk about garden.

9:30 to 10:00a.m.meeting & short talk

10:00 to 12:00a.m. auction & raffle.

12:00 to 1:00p.m. lunch.

1:00 to 6:00p.m. nursery tour.

6:30 p.m. leave for Bittersweet Restaurant in Westportfor dinner.

Some Things You Might See at Ned & Elizabeth’s

I moved to Dartmouthin 1999 and started building aviaries and planting daffodilsbamboo. In 2004, I married Elizabeth, and she her son, Cole,came to joined me. We started our lilac collection, vegetable garden, and poultry building. We now have 16 different types of bamboo, some of which are struggling to live with us, and 17 ornamentalpheasants, 19 exoticwaterfowl, 15 show chickens, 50 doves, and 17 miscellaneous other feathered friends.

Schedule for the Second Day

Sunday, May 4th

We are going to play this day a bit looser, depending on the folks interested. Please be sure to sign up with Ned or Elizabeth. Things to do:

8:30 a.m. meet for breakfast somewhere, to be decided Saturday.

9:30 head out to some or all of the following:

Ron Rudnicki’s sculpture, moss, and bamboo garden in Freetown.
Peter Sadeck’s aviaries and garden if we can catch him home in Freetown.
Tranquil LakeNursery in Rehoboth.
The Whaling Museum in the historic area of downtown New Bedford, which includes neighboring antique stores, art galleries, shops, restaurants, etc.

Directions to Ned and Elizabeth’s

I-495 or 128 (I-93 or I-95) to Route 24 south,
Route 24 south to I-195 east toward New Bedford,
Go east on I-195 to Exit 12, south onto Faunce Corner Rd,
Go south on Faunce Corner Rd, straight across Route 6 on Old Westport Rd (don’t stop at any of the numerous malls),
0.4 miles from Route 6 bear left onto Chase Road for 3.6 miles to its end at Russell’s Mills Road,
Turn right onto Russell’s Mills Road and go for 1 mile to Russell’s Mills (Davoll’s General Store on the left). Continue straight onto Horseneck Road,
1.9 miles down Horseneck Road is our home, #427, a yellow cape on the right set back from the road, just before the sharp right turn of Horseneck Road.

Places to Stay in the Area

Hampton Inn, Westport

53 Old Bedford Road

Westport, MA 02790

Tel: 508-675-8500

The Harbor Inn, Westport

23 Acoaxet Road

Westport, MA

508-636-5915

The Henley House B & B

194 Rockland Street

South Dartmouth, MA 02748

Derrick & Margaret Jones

Tel: 508-991-7210

Cell: 978-808-6414

Paquachuck Inn

2056 Main Road

Westport Point, MA 02790

Phone: 508-636-4398

Comfort Inn

171 Faunce Corner Road

(Exit. 12 off I-195)

North Dartmouth, MA02747

800-228-5150

Residence Inn by Marriot

181 Faunce Corner Road

(Exit. 12 off I-195)

Dartmouth, MA 02747

508-984-5858

Fairhaven Harborside Inn

Bed and Breakfast

1 Main Street

Fairhaven, MA 02719

888-575-7829

Captain Otis F. Thacher House

32 Old Westport Road

North Dartmouth, MA 02747

508-994-1418

The Nurseries We May Visit

Haskell's Nursery 787 Shawmut Avenue, New Bedford. Outdoor hardy bamboos are available and some for inside too. Allen C. Haskell Horticulturists Inc. is a family owned and operated business founded in 1953 by the late Allen C. Haskell (1935-2004), who was a world famous landscaper. Their specialty is a distinctive landscaping service and interesting plants both for outdoor and interior spaces. Their services are in demand at notable locations around the country and around the world. The plants that they carry are not only beautifully displayed but are rare and unusual. Visit their web site for a virtual tour at

Sylvan Nursery 1028 Horseneck Road, Westport. Stock includes running and clumping bamboos, some in very large tubs. During the past 40 years the nursery has grown from being a part-time hobby to a business housed in 24 greenhouses on 300 acres in six locations.A visit is well worth the experience since they are probably the largest re-wholesaler of nursery stock in New England. Much of their nursery stock is quite large landscape sizeplants. It is almost like going to an arboretum, but you can go home with some of it.

Quansett Nurseries 794 Horseneck Road, Dartmouth. There is some bamboo in the yard but not much for sale. Well worth the visit, however, because Fred Dabney's wholesale collection of annuals, herbs, perennial and stepables groundcovers ishuge. One of his specialties is annuals which can be put outin early May. Quansett Nurseries, Inc. is a wholesale grower of container plant material that started in 1980. Today they are spread over fifteen acres. Most of the plants sold are propagated at the nursery. They are always searching for new and old varieties that have ornamental and environmental appeal. They have many sources of plant material including the Arnold Arboretum, other nurseries, and private collections. Stock includes a wide variety of plants for difficult environments such as the

seashore and wetlands. Quansett believes in a flexible approach to the market place and experiment, not only with new varieties, but also with new methods of packaging and presentation.

AvantGardens Chris and Kathy Tracey, 710 High Hill Rd.Dartmouth. Several bamboos are offered for sale, and there is a lovely stand of yellow groove at the parking lot. They have an incredible collection of perennials, many of which are very rare or hard to find. AvantGardens is a small, family run nursery that propagates what they sell. They grow a tremendous variety of plants,but they do not propagate in great quantities. AvantGardens aims to cater to the more adventurous gardeners out there who have both patience and foresight.

ABS Membership Form

Name: ______

Address: ______

City, State, Zip: ______

Telephone: ______

Email: ______

Please make checks payable to:

“ American Bamboo Society”

Fees:

Annual: $40 3Years: $110

ABS Lifetime: $600

NE Chapter Lifetime: $250

Mail this information with payment to:

American Bamboo Society

315 S. Coast Highway 101 Ste U

PMB 212

Encinitas, CA 92024-3555