Foxglove Before and After
Last September we caught Margie Brown, Minute Man’s Natural & Cultural Resource Manager, on her way to plant foxglove in the Buttrick Gardens. Thanks to her hard work, we were […]
Last September we caught Margie Brown, Minute Man’s Natural & Cultural Resource Manager, on her way to plant foxglove in the Buttrick Gardens. Thanks to her hard work, we were […]
June is Pride Month! It’s also when the Buttrick Gardens at Minute Man National Historical Park bloom with multi-colored iris, peony, and baptisia. We welcome our LGBTQ+ and all visitors […]
Minute Man National Historical Park is home to five identified species of turtles, including the painted turtle, snapping turtle, Blanding’s turtle, spotted turtle, and the eastern musk turtle. We recently […]
Minute Man National Historical Park (NHP) offers several paid student internship opportunities for summer 2023, including part-time summer internships for natural and cultural resource management, a Buttrick Gardens internship in […]
Staff and volunteers finished putting the Buttrick Gardens to bed for the winter in late December. A fresh layer of pine needles will protect the garden’s historic irises over the […]
We know the winter holidays are around the corner when the Garden Club of Concord brings us a wreath! Thank you to the volunteers at the garden club for hanging […]
Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail keeps our intrepid volunteers from taking care of the grounds at Minute Man National Historical Park. Landscape volunteers meet weekly with park […]
The days are getting shorter and temperatures are dropping, but iris rejuvenation is underway in the Buttrick Gardens. Beginning in August, park staff and volunteers lifted and divided hundreds of […]
Written by Sophie Cooke, Friends of Minute Man Buttrick Gardens 2022 summer intern. My work this summer centered on the Buttrick Gardens iris collection. In the early 1960s, the Buttrick […]
Daylilies are currently in bloom at the Buttrick Gardens, next to the North Bridge Visitor Center. Stedman Buttrick II inherited the family estate and gardens in 1925. He and his […]