If you should come north again try the coast from Boston north. In Boston you have the Arnold Aboretum, Elm Bank - home of the Ma. Horticultural Society; west of Boston there is Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston. One hour north of Boston is Cape Ann with Essex - a whole town full of antique shops and seafood restaurants; Gloucester- fishing/art; Rockport - full or art galleries and shopping. 40 minutes north - Newburyport, where every shop and window in their renovated downtown has an enormous window box - hanging baskets everywhere. 20 minutes north to Fuller Garden (North Hampton/Rye, N.H.) - an American Rose Society test garden with a magnificent perennial garden, Japanese garden and sculpture garden - on the ocean. 15 minutes to Portsmouth,Strawberrry Banke, Prescott Park garden.