The Aptucxet Garden Club of Bourne presents Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, a National Garden Club Small-Standard flowr show, on Thursday through Saturday, May 30 – June 1, from 1 – 4 at the Briggs-McDermott House, 22 Sandwich Road in Bourne. Free admission.
The Plymouth Garden Club, the Aptucxet Garden Club, the Evening Garden Club of Plymouth, and other area participants will hold their annual Art in Bloom event at The Plymouth Center for the Arts, 11 North Street, Plymouth, on Friday, September 19 (10 – 8, reception 6 – 8,) Saturday September 20 (10 – 8,) and Sunday, September 21 (10 – 4.) Admission is free, open to the public. For more information contact Judy Brown at 508-888-3638.
Apologies to everyone out there who is groaning. On Wednesday, April 9, the Aptucxet Garden Club will sponsor a free program at the Bourne United Methodist Church with Sue Dubrava, co-owner of Cochato Nursery. Sue will give a presentation entitled Hostas: The Funkia the Better, on creating a shade garden by combining multiple hostas with other shade plants. For more information visit www.aptucxetgardenclub.com. Image from www.houzz.com.
Come to the Bourne United Methodist Church on Sandwich Road in Bourne on Monday, March 10 at noon and meet Les Lutz, new director of horticulture at Heritage Museum and Gardens. He will use a PowerPoint presentation to introduce us to bonsai, followed by a demonstration of how to start with nursery stock and end up with a beginning bonsai specimen. The free program is sponsored by the Aptucxet Garden Club.
