Daily Archives: April 8, 2011

Thursday, June 2, 8:30 am – 3:15 pm – Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Annual Meeting

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The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts’ 2011 Annual Meeting will take placed Thursday, June 2, beginning with registration at 8:30 am, at the Crowne Plaza, 1360 Worcester Road (Route 9), Natick, Massachusetts.  You may choose from two morning workshops, the first being “Historic Landscaping” with John Forti of Strawbery Banke, and the second “Coffee with a Landscape Gardener”, where several Landscape Design Council members will share information and answer landscaping questions.  At 10 am there will be the call to order and business meeting, followed at 10:45 by Julie Moir Messervy, landscape designer, author and lecturer, speaking on “Creating the Landscape of Home.”  The Awards Luncheon at 1 pm will be preceded by Boutique Shopping.  At 2 pm, enjoy the introduction of the Natalie Wolf Design Forum.  To register, please send a check made payable to  GCFM,Inc. to Linda Yuele, 38 Nevins Road, Methuen, MA 01844.  Include your name, address, telephone, email, and Club affiliation.  Costs are $5 for either morning workshop, $15 for the morning session of speaker and awards, and an additional $35 for lunch. Please indicate chicken or fish.  For more information you may email Linda at denlinyuele@comcast.net.

Saturday, April 30, 9:30 am – 1:00 pm – City Garden Ideas: Expert Advice and Practical Tips to Beautify Small Urban Spaces

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Need information and inspiration to garden in your city space? Come learn how to plant for success at First Church, Boston, 66 Marlborough Street, on Saturday, April 30. Light refreshments will be served at 9:30, with presentations beginning at 10 am. Learn about basic gardening tools and supplies. See a window box and container garden created before your eyes. Listen to experts share their gardening knowledge and planting secrets. Ask questions and get answers to your garden challenges.

Featured Presenters are Ellen Abdow, Owner, Perennial Gardens, Steve Baxter, Grounds Superintendent, 1000 Southern Artery Senior Housing, Quincy, Heather Heimarck, Director, Landscape Institute, Boston Architectural College, Frank Re, Owner, ReCreations – Gardens Brought to Life, and Tom Smarr, former Superintendent of Horticulture, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.

The fee to participate is $25, and you may register at http://citygardenideas.eventbrite.com. For more information, contact Garden Club of the Back Bay member Janine Mudge at  Janine@citygardenideas.com or call 617-921-4540.