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Gardens in beautiful bloom for Palace Theatre's tour

unionleader.com 2024/10/5

Gardens in Manchester were not so secret as around 200 people visited nine properties during the Palace Theatre’s annual Garden Tour, held last month.

This year’s theme for the tour, "'Bee' Ready to Bloom," unknowingly celebrated the most recent accomplishment of one of the hostesses. Heather Robins’s garden was deemed “pollinator friendly” by the University of Maine and the New Hampshire Cooperative Extension this year. The process is extensive, and has some of the most challenging criteria in the country, according to Robins.

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Signs adorn Sharon Cairns’s garden, which was on display for the Palace Theatre’s Garden Tour on June 22, 2024, in Manchester.
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Emmett the cat, 18, was the host with the most, along with his dads Stephen Cornish (who is holding him) and Michael Duffy.
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From left, Christine Gere, Rose Smith and Beverly Gere identify plants during the Palace Theatre’s Garden Tour.
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Bunny Hanrahan used a previous year’s sign to hold up this year’s poster for the Palace Theatre’s Garden Tour on June 22, 2024, in Manchester.
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Bob Mullen from Windham, right, chats with Manchester native Nicole Gill at a koi pond on display for the garden tour.
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Lilies were not hard to find in Sharon Cairns’s garden, which was on display for the Palace Theatre’s Garden Tour.
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Eric Esposito and Heather Robins stand in their backyard garden during the Palace Theatre’s Garden Tour on June 22, 2024, in Manchester.
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Heather Robins took the time to post "before" photos of the yard — taken before she moved in with Eric Esposito — for the Palace Theatre’s Garden Tour on June 22, 2024, in Manchester.
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Heather Robins’s garden was deemed “pollinator friendly” this year by the University of Maine and the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, which was perfect for the Palace Theatre’s Garden Tour theme “bee ready to bloom,” held last month in Manchester.
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