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a little bit about the history of the place

Allen Clifton Haskell (1935-2004) I have seen on line desribed as “a nurseryman with an artist’s eye.” and it is said he symbolizes the best of New Bedford – grit, determination, ingenuity and an outward vision that once brought New Bedford whalers to every corner of the globe and later won international acclaim for Haskell as everyone from European royalty to local do-it-yourself gardeners made pilgrimages to his fabled Shawmut Avenue nursery described as “heaven on earth.”

Haskell created an 6-acre urban paradise – a touch of Old World restrained elegance with meandering cobblestone paths, ivy-covered stone buildings, strutting peacocks and rare plant specimens like the European hornbeam hedge rising over a stone wall and a 250-year old American dogwood – in a humble, working-class neighborhood on busy Shawmut Avenue

it is now managed by a not for profit group I believe called the trustees and is free to visit

next a Tulip, I remember my late Mother loved Tulips so they remain special for me when I see them

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and another tulip

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MY Dad always liked having daffodils in his garden, of which he was so proud of his gardens were always beautiful, I didnt inherit a green thumb from him though

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and anoher blossom to finish off the post

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And that’s all folks

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