Learn how to start raising bees in your own backyard with Nancy Bentley Mangion. Nancy, who is a well known bee consultant and owner of the Beekeepers’ Warehouse in Woburn, has trained hundreds of New Englanders about how to keep bees. Nancy will bring an active bee hive for demonstration (!) and offer tastings of more than 30 different honeys from around the world. She will also demonstrate how to make beeswax candles. The program, taking place Thursday, March 4, beginning at 7:00 pm at the Medford Public Library, 111 High Street in Medford, is sponsored by the Medford Garden Club, and is free and open to the public. For more information, email sbcummer@msn.com.
Category: Meeting
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Tuesday, March 2, and Wednesday, March 10 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm – City of Boston Community Workshop on Climate Action
The City of Boston will hold two Community Workshops on Climate Action, the first on Tuesday, March 2, from 4:30 – 8:30 pm, at Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, in the Mary Norton Hall on the Second Floor, and the second on Wednesday, March 10, from 4:40 – 8:30 pm, at the Metcalf Ballroom, George Sherman Union, Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Avenue. Target neighborhoods under discussion in the March 2 session will be East Boston, Charlestown, South Boston, and in the Downtown area, Chinatown, North Leather District, and the West End. Neighborhoods under discussion on March 10 include Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Kenmore, South End, Allston, Brighton, and the Fenway. Interpretation available on request in American Sign Language, Chinese, Portuguese and Spanish. You must register in order to ensure a space at this workshop. You may register online at www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/#/?i=2.
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Wednesday, February 24, 10:00 am – Should I Become An Organic Gardener?
The February meeting of the Garden Club of the Back Bay will take place Wednesday, February 24, beginning at 10 am, at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Dianne Plantamura has been an organic gardener for over 30 years, and shares her training as a Master Gardener in this presentation on the benefits, costs and challenges of gardening organically. Dianne’s first memory in life was sitting at age 3 or 4 in the warm soil of her grandfather’s truck garden. Raised on the now celebrated Mediterranean cuisine, she has always been interested in tasty and nutritious food, a synonym for organically raised food. She will tell us why she considers organic methods crucial for human health and for the well being of the earth. In addition to her work as a Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Dianne is an officer in the Groveland Garden Club and works as Executive Director of the New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The meeting is free and open to the public. An optional vegetarian, organic lunch will follow the meeting at a cost of $20 per person, and pre-registration is essential. You may sign up by emailing info@bostonflora.com.
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Saturday, February 13, 12:30 – 3:30 pm – Powerpoint Presentation of the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Shaun Montminy, New England Carnivorous Plant Society Membership Secretary, will give a presentation of his visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden and California Carnivores on Saturday, February 13, beginning at 12:30 pm at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center. For more information, log on to www.necps.org.
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Thursday, February 25, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm – ELA Annual Conference and Marketplace
The Ecological Landscaping Association will hold its Annual Conference and Marketplace on Thursday, February 25, beginning at 8:00 am at the MassMutual Center, 1277 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Learn how to maximize biological potential, minimize environmental impacts, and obtain spectacular results. Sessions will focus on water use, landscape design, and practical skills. You may also visit the Eco-Marketplace. Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden, will share his design approach to sustainable landscaping. There will also be a Keynote Dinner at 6:45 PM. For admission data, contact www.ecolandscaping.org, telephone 617-436-5838, or email elawebmaster@verizon.net.
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Monday, February 22, 10:00 am – At Home With Orchids
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts presents a Horticulture Morning on Monday, February 22, beginning at 10 a.m. at The Espousal Center, 554 Lexington Street, North Waltham, Massachusetts (off Route I-95/128, Exit 27A Totten Pond Road). Rita DeLollis, orchid enthusiast and organic gardener, will present At Home with Orchids: Tips for Successful Growing and Use in Designs. A donation of $5, payable at the door, is suggested. To call for information on cancellations due to snow or storm, call 781-391-0261. You may also contact Betsy Williams (betsy@betsywilliams.com) or Rita DeLollis (rdelollis@aol.com) for more information on Horticulture Mornings.
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Friday, March 19 – Sunday, March 21 – Rock Gardens of the Future
Join the North American Rock Garden Society March 19 – March 21 in Devens, Massachusetts, to hear about terrific new plants for your garden. Learn design principles you can use to make your garden more interesting and pleasing. Buy great plants, and enter a plant show. Mingle with other obsessed gardeners. Devens, Massachusetts is the new town on the site of the former Fort Devens, 30 miles west of Boston (who knew?).
Featured speakers include Gordon Hayward, author and garden designer, on the uses of stone in the garden, Jan Sacks and Marty Schafer, proprietors of Joe Pye Weed’s garden, on small irises, Lauren Springer Ogden and Scott Ogden, authors and garden designers, on plant-driven garden design, Bill Cullina, author and plant and garden curator, from Coastal maine Botanical Garden, on trilliums, Darrell Probst, horticuturist and plant breeder, giving two talks, one on new introductions of astilbes, coreopsis and more, and the other on epimediums from the wilds to the garden, Sally and John Perkins, rhododendron experts, on ericaceous plants for the rock garden, and Jeff Good, landscape director of The Fells in Newbury, New Hampshire, on design and restoration of the rock gardens at The Fells.
You’ll also choose two of these three design workshops:Â Discussing the Design Process with the Ogdens, Propagation of Trilliums with Bill Cullina, or Sturdy, Reliable Plants for the Rock Garden with Mike Slater, NARGS Recording Secretary.
In addition to many vendors selling great plants, there will be a plant who, and newcomers as well as experienced plant show participants are encouraged to enter. For further information, contact Registrar Vivien Bouffard (vbouffard55@msn.com) or Chair Rosemary Monahan (rosemonahan@comcast.net), or call 978-568-1780.
The meeting will be held at the Marriott Spring Hill Suites/Devens Common Center in Devens. For rooms, register directly with the hotel: 1-888-287-9400, or on line at www.marriott.com. Be sure to mention that you’re registering as part of the block reserved for the New England Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society. Conference rates are $119 plus tax, and hotel reservations must be made by February 18.
You may register for the conference on line at www.nargs.org, or contact Vivien or Rosemary as noted above to receive a written form. Fee for attending is $250 if received by February 1, and $275 thereafter. There is also an optional Friday dinner for $45.
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Saturday, February 6, 5:00 – 9:00 pm – Earth Dinner
The First Parish Church, 3 Church Street in Cambridge will host an Earth Dinner potluck on Saturday, February 6, from 5 – 9 pm, which will feature local foods, with a Slow Foods Boston representative, local farmers, and food producers discussing the local food movement. For more information, log on to www.slowfoodboston.com, or call the church at 617-876-7772.
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Tuesday, February 9, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Tea at the Mandarin Oriental
The Garden Club of the Back Bay thanks its many volunteers at the annual winter Tea, this year to be held at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Boylston Street in Boston. Save Tuesday, February 9, from 3 – 5 pm. Details will be mailed to the membership soon.
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Wednesday, January 20, 5:00 pm – Esplanade 2020: Speaking Up, Being Heard
The Esplanade Association and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation invite you to Esplanade 2020: Crafting a Vision for the Esplanade’s Future. This community input session will be held Wednesday, January 20, in the McKim Conference Room B at the Boston Public Library on Boylston Street, beginning at 5 pm. From 5 – 6, learn the history of the Esplanade from Karl Haglund, historian and DCR Project Manager for the New Charles River Basin. From 6 – 8, there will be a community input session, which will be comprised of (1) a group input exercise, (2) a breakout session, with participants discussing particular park issues and ideas, and (3) a series of summary reports from the breakout groups back to the general assembly of participants. At 8 there will be a reception. The Esplanade Association will moderate the exercise, record the ideas offered by participants, and use this information as the foundation for a ten-year vision of Esplanade 2020. For more information, log on to www.esplanadeassociation.org, or contact Chris Murton at 617-227-0365, or email cmurton@esplanadeassociation.org.
