Boston Flora

Month: September 2010

  • Thursday, October 7, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Glorious Garlic and Her Bodacious Cousins, the Alliums

    Betsy Williams, a popular speaker at garden clubs and herb festivals, will demonstrate how to grow and use garlic, how to select from the many beautiful alliums available for the garden, and how to use garlic and the “bodacious” alliums in seasonal flower decorating. The program, sponsored by the Medford Garden Club, will be held Thursday, October 7, from 7 – 9 at the Medford Public Library, 111 High Street in Medford, and is free and open to the public.  For more information, email sbcummer@msn.com.

  • Sunday, October 17, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Autumn Beauties: Native Plants in the Collections

    Tower Hill’s gardens contain many beautiful native plants that are the most glorious in the fall.  Discover why these plants are great choices for your home garden on this walk with Dori Smith, M.Ed., Gardens for Life in Acton, on Sunday, October 17, from 1 – 3, rain or shine.  Tower Hill Members: $22, non-Members: $25.  To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.  Photo below taken during a Garden Club of the Back Bay field trip in September, 2008.

  • Saturday, November 6 – Sunday, November 7, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm – GCFMA Environmental Studies School 2010

    Get ready for another exciting and informative weekend, this year in Hull, Massachusetts.  Welcome back some instructors you may have enjoyed before, and meet new ones.  Learn about weather and discuss global warming with a local meteorologist.  Trade in your toxic household products for healthy, non-toxic alternatives.  Explore pollution and develop a value system which respects the interdependence of all nature.  Explore the rain forest and discover new ways to protect endangered plants and wildlife.  Last, but not least, visit Hull’s wind turbines and learn about their development, construction, and how Hull benefits from clean, free energy.  This National Garden Clubs, Inc. program November 6 – 7 is entitled The Living Earth – Air and Related Issues.  The event will be held at the Nantasket Beach Hotel and Conference Center, 45 Hull Shore Drive in Hull, and the course fee is $110. Marc Fournier, Debbie Cook, Marie Stella, Rob Gilman, and Patrick Cannon will speak.  Required text: Living in the Environment by G. Tyler Miller, Jr., 7th Edition or later – Reference only.  For complete information, call Judy Dorner at 781-367-0626, or email her at Kayakflower@verizon.net.

  • Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Native Bulbs for New England

    A large variety of North American species actually perform better if the whole plant is transplanted from a container in the spring rather than bare root in the fall. Laura Eisener highlights some of the beautiful native plants that grow from bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers, including spring and summer blooming species. These hardy, long-lasting perennials make delightful additions to your sun or shade garden. The Tuesday, October 5 class  (from 7 – 9) is co sponsored by the New England Wild Flower Society and by Mass Audubon Drumlin Farm, and the fee to participate is $22 for members of either group, or $26 for non members. To register, log on to www.newfs.org.

  • Friday, November 5, 6:30 pm – Friends of the Public Garden 40th Anniversary Gala

    The Friends of the Public Garden will host a celebration to wrap up the entire 40th Anniversary year on Friday, November 5, beginning at 6:30 pm at the Taj Boston, 15 Arlington Street in Boston.  To participate in this benefit event, call 617-723-8144, or email friends@harronandassociates.com.

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  • Wednesdays, October 6 – December 1, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Landscape Photography

    Broaden your photographic vision beyond traditional landscape shots and explore your surroundings with new eyes with photographer Robin Radin at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. We will supplement weekly assignments by looking at the work of some extraordinary landscape photographers to see what makes them great. Bring your own camera (any kind) and prepare to bring in 4” x 6” prints each week. (Classes begin October 6. No class meeting on Nov 24.)  Fee $235 Arnold Arboretum member, $260 nonmember.   Offered in collaboration with The Eliot School. Register at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

  • Thursday, September 30, 12:00 noon – Chestnut Hill Garden Club Luncheon with Julie Moir Messervy

    The Chestnut Hill Garden Club will present a luncheon talk by Julie Moir Messervy on September 30 at noon in the clubhouse of the Putterham Meadows Golf Course, 1281 West Roxbury Parkway, Brookline.

    Ms. Messervy is an innovative leader in landscape and garden design theory and practice, the author of six books, and the principal of Julie Moir Messervy Design Studios in Saxtons River, Vermont. Her studio is currently working with the Arnold Arboretum in the redesign of the Bradley Rosaceous Collection. The title of her talk is “Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love.”

    Tickets for the luncheon and lecture are $75.00, a portion of which will be contributed to the GCA’s Corliss Knapp Engle Scholarship. For more information, please contact Jean Mongan at 617.731.9092 or email jmongan1@partners.org.

  • Wednesdays, October 13 and October 27, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Brewing Beer at Home

    Instructor Bruce Lucier of Homebrew Emporium in West Boylston will introduce you to the history, cultural significance and biochemistry of beer, while providing the hands-on experience of making your own, in this two session class at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, on Wednesdays, October 13 and 27, from 7 – 9 pm.  THBG members will pay $20, and non-members $25.  To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org. Painting by Morgen Chandomba.

  • Sunday, October 3, 12:00 noon – 3:30 pm – Ferns in the Fall

    When fading sunlight and perhaps a frost have shriveled the undergrowth and turned it brown, evergreen ferns and club-mosses stand out in dramatic contrast. On a Sunday, October 3 walk with New England Wild Flower Society’s Don Lubin and Raymond Abair through the Blue Hills Reservation, visit a dozen evergreen species and other pteridiphyte taxa, including polypody, Christmas and grape ferns, five wood ferns and maybe a spleenwort, four club-mosses and a horsetail. Travel about two miles on mostly flat trails with a few hills. A hand lens is suggested. $28 for NEWFS members, $32 for non-members. Meet at Blue Hills at noon. To register, log on to www.newfs.org.

  • Wednesdays, October 6 and 13, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Sand Cast Garden Leaves

    In this two session workshop at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Wednesdays, October 6 and 13, from 7 – 8:30, artist/designer Sandra Reardon will teach you how to capture the beauty of leaves using the process and technique of sand casting.  All tools and materials will be provided.  The cost for THBG members is $50, and $55 for non-members.  To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.