The various garden locations include ideas for annuals, perennials, hardscapes and creative uses of space – think about container gardens, hanging baskets – and what you have created with your interest in plants!

Garden Tour Map

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At 10 North Main Street – The Library will be set up with their Seed Library, along with a free raffle to win some plants donated by the Stratham Circle Nursery! Be sure to stop by to enter the free raffle!

COMMUNITY PROJECT GARDENS
Newmarket Community Garden 76 Dame Road – The Newmarket Community Garden is a small group of organic gardeners that gather to share land and resources for the production of locally grown food, medicine and flowers. They promote the use of sustainable, ecological and regenerative practices and their hope is to build a sense of community spirit and resiliency in Newmarket. This is their 18th season on Dame Road.

10 North Main Street – The Newmarket Food pantry garden was built 5 years ago to produce fresh, organically grown produce exclusivity for the Food Pantry. The garden was designed to be sustainable and environmentally friendly thru use of raised beds, water catchment system, pollinator hotels, etc. The Newmarket Library will also have a table set up with their seed library and summer reading information.

191 Bay Road – Our garden is mostly part shade/shade with only a few spots with part sun, so it’s taken the 25 plus years that we’ve lived here to find plants that will thrive in these settings. Instead of a grassy lawn in the lower yard, there is moss, and native woodland grasses, lots of ferns, hostas, groundcovers, and wildflowers like may apples, various kinds of Solomon’s Seal. Sweet Woodruff is throughout the mid yard, punctuated by Hellebores, Heucheras, scented Geraniums, Dogwood, Lamium and Pulmonaria. The entire yard is a study in textures.

5 South Street – Tulips, peonies, and hyrdangeas take turns being in the spotlight in this quaint, Northeast facing front yard garden, that centers around a table for two. For a garden only receiving 3-5 hours of sunlight/day, it’s quite colorful with a nice mix of annuals and perennials. A great place to view the gorgeous gardens across the street and chat with passerby.

6th South Street – A large perennial rock garden that is south facing. Many fun things to explore in this garden including sculptures and fountains. It’s a true gem in the center of town!

Zen Garden Corner of South Street and Granite Street – the residential property features several sculptures which make the home itself feel exotic and enhancing the highly textured garden plants. Wrapping around the corner and up the hill toward the Stone Church, you may want to park and allow time to wander through the gardens hillside entryway to the top of the small hill. Shrubbery, groundcovers and mature native plants compete for your attention as you also take in the many sculptures and artifacts in the garden

71 Elm Street – Foundation plantings flank the front of the home, with extensive vegetable gardens in the back, and well-pruned trees at the front of the home’s entrance, you will see a gardener’s dream in so many forms and styles. This home’s landscaping makes it look easy! Appreciate the details!

3 Edwin Lane – A nice natural stone wall in the front eliminates mowing grass and leads your eye to wonder what’s around the corner. Minor landscaping is completed in the back, but you’ll want to gain extra inspiration with the patio and fire pit in the middle of that patio – which was made with seconds of granite from Swenson Granite in Concord!

1 Bayview Drive – This homeowner began with not even a blade of grass when they moved into the newly constructed home. Now, 6 years later, every shrub, tree, and flower bed reflect their vision and work with a now-retired garden center employee who worked every dream plant in to the landscape design. This garden is the retirement hobby of the homeowner, who is eager to congratulate every gardener on this year’s tour!

2 Cushing Road – Is one of the more rural locations on the tour, with its very inviting driveway leading to the property’s landscaped areas. Check the mature trees, which are home to birds, bats, beneficial insects and offer a welcoming habitat for different songbirds to nest or feed during nesting season. The mixture of roses, clematis and perennial gardens surround a patio to create a backyard retreat. Plants grown in pots are placed around the patio and in the gardens. The property also has other small gardens which include a small shade area.

Blooming Newmarket
Blooming Newmarket is a group of volunteers who have been planting/tending a changing numbers of public gardens in Newmarket since 1997. Two of the gardens can be found downtown
The Wall Garden (Across the Street from the Mills on Main Street) – Was designed by Anna-Lisa Gottschlich, with multiple mostas of varying sizes, and an increasing number of shade perennials including Heucheras, dwarf crested Iris, Ajugas and more, flanked by Rhododendrons provided by Gene Noval. On the lower end where the garden gets more sun, we have daylilies, Shasta daisies, spring bulbs (gone by now) and an assortment of colorful annuals.

The Rear Garden (Behind the Library) – Started out on paper as a more traditional landscaping project, but morphed into more of a native plans design by the time the garden was planted, the design was done by Marylyn Benson – the bench in front of the garden is dedicated to her. The tree in in the center of the garden is a Yellowood, native to the eastern US. The smaller bushes that ring the tree are Fothergilla, and Boxwood, and lowgrowing Juniper on the outside facing Main Street. Echinaceas, butterfly weed, and a patch of cornflowers line the portion next to the lawn along the sidewalk, with a stand of native Hydrangeas behind them. On the parking lot side, there are River Oats, butterfly weed, low bush blueberry bushes, mountain mint, and more Echinacea, and Liatris. Quick note on the holly hedge that lines the building- they were put in place as small bushes in 2000 by Newmarket Girl Scout Troop 2097.

Library Planters (Alley between Library and Municipal Lot) – are planted and maintained by Blooming Newmarket. All our plants in all the gardens are purchased with funds raised by our annual plant sale.

Blooming Newmarket members maintain the two planters in front of Town Hall, as well as the Traffic Island across the street. We recommend viewing that garden (Gerry Ave) from a car or the sidewalk as it’s a high traffic area! If you go in the small park across the street from the Post Office, you’ll notice a granite planter planted with Agapanthus, several kinds of Salvia and Sweet Potato vines. In winter, the planter serves as the stand for Newmarket’s Giving Tree. The planter was donated to the Town in 2000(?) by Ruthanne and Bill Rogers of the Newmarket Gardeners/became Blooming Newmarket in 2017