Daily Archives: October 16, 2019

Wednesday, November 6, 10:00 am – Beekeeping in an Urban Environment

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The November meeting of the Garden Club of the Back Bay will take place Wednesday, November 6 beginning at 10 am at The College Club of Boston, 44 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Beekeeper Dave Strickler will talk about beekeeping in the City. Dave is a member of the Massachusetts Beekeeping Association, and will bring a few different honeys for attendees to sample. Members of the Garden Club will receive email notification of the meeting and should respond as directed on the invitation. An optional lunch will follow the meeting, and you may pay online at http://gardenclubbackbay.org/shop/

If you are not a member but wish to attend, please email info@gardenclubbackbay.org.

Saturday, October 26, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Hydrangea Success

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Hydrangeas continue to be a very popular woody ornamental genus. Widely grown along the New England coastline – and increasingly in more interior locations – they create something special in so many gardens. Mal Condon’s October 26 discussion at 2 pm at Tower Hill Botanic Garden will cover a broad range of best practices for growing hydrangea successfully in your gardens – from the technical perspective to the all-important ‘dirt under the fingernails’ Issues.

Sponsored by the New England Hosta Society. Free with admission to the Garden.

A lifelong gardener, Mal Condon has been collecting, propagating, and growing hydrangeas for more than 40 years. He and his wife Mary Kay operated Hydrangea Farm Nursery on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts for many years. It was a well-known specialty nursery featuring a touring garden containing one of the largest hydrangea collections in the Northeast. In February 2014 they moved to Yarmouth Port on Cape Cod, where they are continuing their passion establishing a significant new garden. Mal is Curator of Hydrangeas at Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA, a former President of The Cape Cod Hydrangea Society, and the ‘hydrangea whisperer’ for several major residential landscapes on the Cape.