Daily Archives: November 13, 2016


Holiday Wreaths: Planning Ahead

We all know how busy November and December become.  We’re shopping, we’re cooking, perhaps we’re traveling, we’re attending parties, we’re standing in line at the post office – and somewhere in there we are getting a flu shot.  So let’s take some stress out of the equation.  Is there a teacher, a co-worker, a baby sitter, a stylist, a neighbor, who is on your gift list? Let’s send them a lovely wreath with a bow (only $45!) in the beginning of December – you will be the holiday hero (or heroine.) We attach a beautiful gift card and can even deliver it if they live or work in the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, or South End.  Or you may pick it up at The First Lutheran Church of Boston, 299 Berkeley Street, and do the presenting yourself.  Visit http://www.gardenclubbackbay.org/products-page/ to see photographs, and to order online or print an order form.  We are showing a fully decorated wreath ($100) below, in case you decide to splurge.

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Saturday, November 19, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon – Propagating Semi-Hardwood Cuttings

Enhance your garden! Join Tiffany Enzenbacher, Manager of Plant Production at the Arnold Arboretum, on Saturday November 19 from 9 – 12 to learn how to propagate woody plants from fall cuttings. Students will collect and stick cuttings of several taxa (Ilex and Rhododendron to name a few), and will take their propagules home.

Fee ($65 or $58 for Arboretum members) for all materials is included in the cost of the class, which will be held in the Dana Greenhouse Classroom at 1050 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. Students should bring their own pruners to class. Register online at www.my.arboretum.harvard.edu.