Garden Club of the Back Bay meeting minutes from November 1982 indicate we placed a notice in the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay newsletter that the Garden Club was available to give advice for front yard landscaping improvements.  We’re not sure if anyone at the time took us up on the offer, but over the years we have fielded many inquiries of this sort, usually from people looking for recommendations of landscape designers or garden maintenance experts.  Sometimes we know a name, sometimes we don’t.  We also have come to realize that a recommendation of a name can look like an endorsement of one company over another, which is not our intent.

Our most amusing queries come from new residents who ask us to come over and actually plant their gardens.  We suppose they have confused a Garden Club with a Garden Service.  If you are a local urban garden designer or own a landscape firm working in the Back Bay, please feel free to email info@bostonflora.com with your information, so we may add your name to a list we hope to prepare and send to interested parties when asked, with a strict caveat that The Garden Club of the Back Bay is not vouching for or vetting the names contained on the list.  Image from www.aspectsofstyle.com.