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Tag: Betsy Williams

  • Saturday, August 9, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Capture the Summer Harvest

    Learn to create delightful winter pleasures from summer’s abundant gardens: how to air dry, silica dry and dehydrate flowers for fall and winter decorating; the step-by-step tricks of preserving the green leaves of summer with glycerin; and the many ways to keep and package herbs for the winter kitchen and gift-giving season. It’s fun, easy and satisfying to capture the beauty, flavors and fragrance of summer for winter use! For our Garden Club of the Back Bay wreath project, these blossoms will be invaluable.  The class will be held at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, August 9, from 9:30 – 12:30, and will be taught by Betsy Williams.  THBG members $60, nonmembers $75.  Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Sunday, August 3, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Fairy House & Garden in a Basket

    Build a house and little garden that just might entice the fairies to come and play. Begin by planting ferns and ivy to give the little people a bit of privacy. Then, using bark, leaves, twigs and other natural materials, create a charming little home that any fairy would be pleased to move into. Once the house is built the landscaping can begin: lay out paths, design a garden or install a small pond. The construction site is a basket that is easily carried home. All materials included. Betsy Williams will teach this Tower Hill Botanic Garden workshop on Sunday, August 3, from 12:30 – 2:30 pm, and the cost is $60 for THBG members, $75 for nonmembers.  Register on line at www.towerhillbg.org. House below by Carla J. Nelson from www.herbgatherings.com.

  • Thursday, May 22, 9:30 am – 11:30 am – Boston Flower Exchange Tour

    Thursday, May 22, 9:30 am – 11:30 am – Boston Flower Exchange Tour

    Join Betsy Williams and Tower Hill Botanic Garden for a guided tour of the Boston Flower Exchange, New England’s wholesale flower market, usually open to floral professionals only. We will talk with vendors, tour the facility and revel in the profusion of fresh cut flowers. We’ll learn where our flowers and cut greens come from and what happens to them as they travel from local and distant greenhouses and fields to our homes. Please meet at the Flower Exchange or car pool from Tower Hill Botanic Garden.  THBG members $40, non members $60.  Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Wednesday, April 9, 7:00 pm – Container Gardening with Herbs

    Betsy Williams, a renowned gardener and herb grower, will demonstrate how to use container gardening with herbs and flowers to enhance your daily life. In this Pepperell Garden Club event on Wednesday, April 9, beginning at 7 pm at the Pepperell Senior Center, 37 Nashua Road in Pepperell, she will show us how herbs and flowers can be used in cooking, potpourri, and floral arrangements to add beauty, flavor, meaning and fragrance to seasonal celebrations. $5 fee. For more information call Club president Lisa Moran at 978-433-3672.  Photo from www.gardenlandscapeideas.org.

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  • Monday, March 3, 10:00 am – Vegetables for Your Garden

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will present a horticultural morning with Betty Saunders on Monday, March 3, beginning at 10 am at South Church, 41 Central Street in Andover.  Garden keeper of Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s bountiful vegetable garden at Elm Bank, Betty shows us how to grow delicious vegetables.  $5 payable at the door.  For more information contact Betsy Williams at 978-470-0911 or email betsy@betsywilliams.com.

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  • Sunday, September 15, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Glorious Garlic

    Instructor Betsy Williams will present a class entitled Glorious Garlic and Her Bodacious, Upscale Cousins, the Flowering Alliums, on Sunday, September 15, from 1 – 3 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston. Learn how to grow and use garlic, queen of the kitchen, and her many strikingly beautiful cousins, the alliums. Fall is garlic planting time for New Englanders, as well as time to plant the bulbs of decorative alliums. Critter resistant and easy to grow, perennial alliums boast lovely, long lasting flowers that add interest and color to the garden from May to September and, in some cases, can be dried for winter use. Learn how to grow and harvest garlic, which alliums to choose for your garden and how to use both of them in seasonal flower arranging. Each student will make a decorative door spray of garlic, dried allium seed heads, golden yarrow and autumn leaves and take home garlic to plant. All materials provided. Image below from www.whiteflowerfarm.com.  $60 for Tower Hill members, $65 nonmembers.  Register online at https://dnbweb1.blackbaud.com/OPXDONATE/AddDonor.asp?cguid=C7E2C131-AD0F-49AA-B073-5B92F8300A37&sid=6FDD6E92-8680-41D9-8636-D241A25BFA25&sTarget=https%3A%2F%2Fdnbweb1.blackbaud.com%2FOPXDONATE%2FEventRegister.asp%3Fcguid%3DC7E2C131%252DAD0F%252D49AA%252DB073%252D5B92F8300A37%26eid%3D46016. 

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  • Saturday, July 27, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm – Fresh Flower Arranging with Herbs & Garden Flowers

    Bring summer indoors! On Saturday, July 27, beginning at 10 am at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, we will  fill a tall glass container with fragrant, colorful herbs and garden flowers to make a lovely, fresh arrangement for your home. Herbs are not just green. Most have lovely flowers and make delightful, fragrant additions to fresh flower arrangements. Learn when and how to cut garden flowers for arranging, what “green” herbs make great fillers and how, if necessary, to select cut herbal flowers from the florist. All supplies and materials provided by teacher Betsy Williams. Please bring floral scissors and an apron to class. $60 THBG members, $65 nonmembers.  Register at www.towerhillbg.org.  Image from www.onekingslane.com.

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  • Saturday, June 8, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Flowers and Fragrance in a Pot

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, will again host Betsy Williams for a hands on worksh0p on Saturday, June 8 at 10 am entitled Flowers and Fragrance in a Pot. Fill a 14″ pot to overflowing with a selection of flowering and fragrant plants: miniature roses, scented geraniums, fragrant rosemaries, trailing vines, sweet pansies and other long blooming plants. Perfect for that sunny spot on a patio, porch or doorstep, a flowering container garden brightens your home and spirit all summer long. All plants and materials included. THBG members $70, non members $75.  Register on line at www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Tuesday, May 14, 9:00 am – Developing Theme Gardens

    Tuesday, May 14, 9:00 am – Developing Theme Gardens

    Betsy Williams presents “Developing Theme Gardens” at a meeting of the Community Garden Club of Duxbury on Tuesday, May 14, beginning at 9 am at the Duxbury Bay Maritime School, 435 Washington Street in Duxbury. The meeting is open to the public for a small fee of $5.

    Trained as a florist in Boston and England, Betsy brings her extensive knowledge of history and plant lore to Duxbury. Betsy will arrive with 6-7 completed arrangements, explain the mechanics of each, and raffle them off.  For more information email cgcduxbury@communitygardenclubofduxbury.org.

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  • Saturday, December 8, 10:00 am – Holiday Table Garden

    Plant a fragrant and festive garden for holiday decorating. Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, will host instructor Betsy Williams for a workshop entitled Holiday Table Garden. We’ll combine chartreuse-colored, lemon-scented cypress trees with small evergreens, trailing ivies, white flowering plants and club moss in an attractive container. The garden is a beautiful, natural and, with proper care, long-lasting addition to your celebrations. Please bring an apron and floral scissors to class. Register at www.towerhillbg.org or call 508-869-6111. Tower Hill Member fee $65, nonmember $70.