Boston Flora

Category: Meeting

  • Saturday, April 18, 2-3:30 pm – Julie Moir Messervy Lecture

    Julie Moir Messervy, author of Outside the Not So Big House and known for her design of the award winning Toronto Music Garden, will show gardens that engender spirituality and reveal how spirituality can inform garden design.  Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon Street, Copley Square. Call 617-536-0944 for more information. Co-sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum. $20 Parishioners/Arboretum Members, $25 general public.

  • Tuesday, April 7, 10 a.m.- American Women Landscape Designers

    The April meeting of the Garden Club of the Back Bay will be held at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue, beginning at 10 a.m.  Nancy Hubert will speak on American Women Landscape Designers: Pioneers in a New Profession.  Nancy will survey a number of designers, including Rose Nichols, whose home in Boston is open to the public and who was the author of two importants early books on gardens. An optional lunch at the Club will follow the meeting ($19).  Notices will be mailed to Club members.  For more information, contact the Garden Club through the Contact link at the top of the page.

  • Monday, April 27, 10:30-noon – Flower Power: Big Impact, Little Effort

    Rebecca Cole’s New York floral, garden, and interior design store is creative, hip, and stylish. Her arrangements make fresh, bold statements about modern living.  Join her at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for this floral demonstration and illustrated lecture for $35, and/or stay for her hands-on master class in flower arranging from 1:30 – 3:30 (class limited to 25, $200 charge). For tickets log on to www.mfa.org/tickets, or call 617-369-3306.

  • Sunday, April 26, 10:30 – noon – In the Company of Flowers

    For the last twenty years, Ron Morgan has dazzled lecture and garden club audiences through his imaginative use of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and unusual items in creative arrangements. Hear him give a floral demonstration and illustrated lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for $35, and if you’re interested in further study, attend his Master Class in the afternoon from 1:30 – 3:30 for hands-on instruction.  The Master Class is limited to 25, and costs $200.  For tickets, log on to www.mfa.org/tickets or call 617-369-3306.

  • Saturday, April 25, 10:30 – noon- Fashionable Flowers

    Meredith Waga Perez honed her aesthetic sensibilities in haute couture. Using her love of texture, color, and design, she opened Belle Fleur, a Manhattan floral and event design firm.  She will give a floral demonstration and illustrated lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts.  Tickets $35 each may be ordered on line at www.mfa.org/tickets, or call 617-369-3306.

  • Saturday, April 18 – Massachusetts Organic Gardening Workshop Day

    NOFA/Mass presents our second annual Statewide Spring Organic Gardening Day. On April 18, there will be organic gardening workshops in every region of the state. Growing our own food is an excellent way to save money, lessen our carbon footprint, improve our health, and connect with neighbors and nature. Isn’t now a good time to learn skills that will help you plant a garden and make it productive throughout the year? Topics will include starting garden beds, seed starting, organic soil fertility, organic soil amendments, mulches and cover crops, weeds, disease and pests, what to plant when, crop spacing, and succession cropping.  These workshops are all being led by experienced gardening educators, and they are intended to meet the tremendous resurgence of energy and action for backyard and community gardening. Workshops will be held in Mattapan, South Natick, Newbury, Middleborough, Cohasset, Worcester, Barre, Winchendon Springs, West Springfield, Wendell, Chesterfield, Sheffield, and Pittsfield.  Register online at www.nofamass.org/programs/practicalskills/workshopday.php.  For more information contact Ben Grosscup at ben.grosscup@nofamass.org.

  • Sunday, March 22, 1 pm – Tovah Martin, Nature in Your Home: Houseplants, Terrariums & You!

    If you’ve always yearned to host houseplants, but failed – this lecture will come to the rescue. Selecting low-maintenance houseplants such as succulents that are in synch with a hectic lifestyle is one solution. But another avenue is crystal clear: glass can serve as a solution to bond botany and you. With the aid of a terrarium, you can host nature almost anywhere – in your parched apartment or your dim cubicle. Plus, terrariums introduce beauty, whimsy, sophistication, and sparkle into indoor gardening. From vases to Wardian cases, including cloches and apothecary jars, we’ll demonstrate precisely how to work with glass enclosures of all types to incorporate green into your life, no matter how busy your schedule might be. Tovah Martin is the author of an upcoming book entitled “The New Terrarium.” $9 members, $10 non members. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA.  For more information, and to register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Wednesday, March 11, 7-9 pm – Green Neighborhood Challenge

    Climate change is the challenge of our time. How we respond will affect generations to come. The scientific community has told us that we must reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases 80% (of 1990 levels) by 2050 to avert the most catastrophic effects of climate change. The problem is global, but solutions will depend on the actions of individuals. Neighborhood associations can help motivate and organize neighbors to take action, serve as resources to their members, and use the campaign as a way to recruit new members. To learn details, come to Brookline Town Hall, Room 103 on Wednesday evening, March 11. For more information, contact donweitzman@rcn.com, Alisa Jonas at jonasdays@verizon.net, or Rob Daves at robdaves@rcn.com.

  • Tuesday, March 10, 6-7 pm – Spice It Up!

    Spice up your life with an A to Z tour of spices that explore the history, folklore and medicinal benefits of common culinary spices. RN/herbalist Bonnie Kavanagh will guide you in the creation of a healthy spice blend to bring home, along with the knowledge to improve your health with every meal. Workshop will meet in the Carriage House of Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum, 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island. $20 members of Blithewold, $25 nonmembers. For more information call 401-253-2707, or log on to www.blithewold.org.

  • Saturday, February 28, 1-3 pm – Small Fruit & Berry Gardening

    Learn about the art and science of growing small fruit including designing, planting and cultivation. This discussion will survey the fruits and berries that grow well in New England with a focus on realistic success. Discuss plant varieties, siting, cultivation, and fruit production of small fruits with low pesticide use. Small fruits such as raspberries, blackberries, grapes, strawberries, blueberries and currants will be covered. Instructor Sonia Schloemann is the small fruit specialist at the University of Massachusetts Extension in Amherst. Her specialty is education and research in small fruit production with a focus on IPM.  Berkshire Botanic Garden, Routes 102 and 183, Stockbridge, MA.  For more information call 413-298-3926 or log on to www.berkshirebotanical.org.