Matt Sabourin

Review of Tower Hill Botanic Garden

Located in central Massachusetts, Tower Hill is a ...

Located in central Massachusetts, Tower Hill is a botanical garden, with some fields & forest to hike through, and a nice visitor's center that would be good for a wedding reception or other function. There was a carnivorous plant showing when we visited, and the shows rotate. The space is truly beautiful.

We decided to head there for an early September afternoon; it was beautiful out, and visiting had been on our to-do list for a while. It was one of those late summer early September New England days; the sun golden to match the fields, in that warm & dry stretch of time that goes from around Labor Day through the actual beginning of autumn. The fields & forests have monuments, statues, and points of interest along them, and it's an enjoyable time to just soak up the sun or enjoy the dappled shade as you come upon them.

The fields are what got me though, overgrown, wild, and gone fallow with wild flowers and grasses, I couldn't think of anything more quintessentially New England. It was one of those places that makes you feel more connected to the people you're with, but also to life in general; no distractions, no noise. Just the sun, someone you love, the wind rustling the lengthening shadows as it blows through the grass, and the buzzing of late summer bugs and the occasional bird. I get the feeling this is the way life was in centuries past, and I wonder if it should have remained that way.

Take a trip here in the winter for a plant/flower fix during the grey months, or go in the spring/summer and soak up the beauty that surrounds you.