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  • Wednesday, October 8 – Friday, October 10 – Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Flower Show School Course I

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will sponsor Flower Show School Course I: Growing, Staging, Exhibiting and Judging on October 8, 9 and 10 at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 11 Beaver Street, Milford, Massachusetts.  Subjects to be covered will be Design, with Garden Club of the Back Bay member Kaye Vosburgh, Flower Show Procedure Parts I and II, with Barbara May, and Horticulture, with Catherine Felton.  The full course with exam is $120, and lunch each day is $17.  To print the registration form go to http://gcfm.org/education/schoolsandregistration and click on “Flower School.”  For more information call Cathie Healy at 508-429-5055.

  • Saturday, February 9, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Construct a Fairy House or Gnome Home!

    Join floral artist and perennial-garden guru Barb May at the Berkshire Botanical Garden on Saturday, February 9 from 10 – noon to learn how she creates charmingly wonderful, magical fairy houses and gnome homes. Designed for permanence, these tiny constructions appeal to old and young alike. This workshop will acquaint participants with ways to collect and prepare natural material from fields and forests and then demonstrate how to manipulate these found objects to create unique and charming structures. Participants will build a structure to take home using found natural material collected at the Berkshire Botanical Garden.

    Barbara May is a professional gardener, prize-winning floral arranger, past president of the Lenox Garden Club and an accomplished teacher.  $50 for BBG members, $60 for non members.  Sign up at www.berkshirebotanical.org.

  • Monday, October 15 – Wednesday, October 17 – NER Symposium 2012

    The Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc. is hosting the 2012 NER Symposium at the Providence Marriott, One Orms Street, Providence, Rhode Island on October 15 – 17.  Barbara May is the Design instructor.  Her subject will be Innovative Exhibition Tables, and she will also teach an allied subject Viva La Difference.  Barbara, whose home state is Massachusetts, is a past president of National Garden Clubs, Inc.  David Robson is the Horticulture Instructor.  His subjects will be A Different Take on Collections and Displays, as well as Orchid Plants.  He will also teach So You Think You Know the Handbook?  David has been involved with NGC programs for a long time, and currently is an FSS Accrediting Chairman.  He is an Extension Specialist at the University of Illinois in the Pesticide Safety Education Program.  This is his first visit to New England.

    Registrar for the Symposium and the Annual Meeting, which precedes the Symposium, is Vicki Iannuccillo, who may be reached by email at viannucil@aol.com. Symposium Chairman is Sue Redden.

     

  • September 14 – 16 – Flower Show School Course I

    Mark your calendars for the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts series of Flower Show School Courses, beginning Tuesday, September 14 through Thursday, September 16, at the Holiday Inn in Taunton, Massachusetts.  Instructor and National Garden Club Federation Past President Barbara May will lecture on Flower Show Procedure and Design, and Cathy Felton will cover Horticulture: Annuals & Cacti and Succulents.  Brochures are available by contacting Hila Lyman, GCFM Local Flower Show School Chairman, at 508-548-0841, or by emailing her at hilajeanne@comcast.net.

    Picture below is Marisa McCoy’s interpretation of the Great Barrier Reef, from Flora in Winter 2010.