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  • Saturday, March 2 – Tuesday, March 5 – Utopia: The New Boston Flower Show 2023

    Great news!  Although the Boston Flower Show, an early-spring favorite of New England gardening enthusiasts and professionals for decades, became a Covid pandemic casualty, its void will be filled by a new and exciting lifestyle show, the Utopia Horticultural and Epicurean Festival.

    Utopia Seaport, designed to appeal to avid gardeners and foodies alike, takes place from March 2 – 5 at the Flynn Cruiseport Terminal in the South Boston Waterfront neighborhood.

    Look for the Massport’s Cruise Terminal three floors to be filled with fantastic new experiences and entertainment, including immersive garden displays, a culinary demonstration stage, free tastings, workshops, a “Gardener’s Toolbench” featuring acclaimed horticulturalists, a cafe, a food hall, a “Mainstreet Marketplace” with over 100 artisans and makers, and even a live DJ.

    Don’t miss this unique event, designed to let us dream about spring as we gaze upon the lush gardens and gorgeous floral displays while also savoring some of Boston’s best culinary and beverage delights.

    Dates & hours:  March 2-5; Thursday-Saturday, 10am-8pm, Sunday 10am-6pm
    Location: Flynn (Black Falcon) Cruiseport Terminal, 1 Black Falcon Ave, Boston’s Seaport neighborhood
    Closest T Station:  Silver Line 2/ Design Center Place
    Parking:  ABM Marine Park Garage, 12 Drydock Ave

    Utopia Tickets 

  • Wednesdays, July 13 – July 27, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Color Gardens: Learn to Create Three Season Flower Gardens with Winter Appeal

    In this three-session Massachusetts Horticultural Society tutorial course to be held Wednesdays, July 13, 20 and 27 from 10 – 2 in the Parkman Room of the Education Building at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, Maria von Brincken, landscape designer, will teach you how to use color and plants to design gardens filled with color from flowers and foliage. You’ll learn how to create beautiful plant combinations that flower from spring to frost for sun and shade. Through hands-on practice sessions, participants make a landscape/garden color palette, and then learn the system to design plant combinations in color sequences through the seasons. Finally, take tutorial walks in the Bressingham Garden illustrate class lectures and exercises.

    Maria von Brincken, principle of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating her 21st year in professional practice. Maria specializes in custom beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens using native and ornamental plants.

    Trained as a fine artist, color theorist, and organic gardener Maria brings years of critical design thinking to her landscape solutions. Her design has been featured in Fine Gardening Magazine, Landscape Ideas You Can Use and others. A former contributing editor to Land Shapes Magazine, her writing has also been published in NELDHA’s Perspectives, APLD’s The Designer, and GardenDrum.org.

    Her lectures and workshops have been featured at the MHS, Boston  Flower Show, Radcliffe Seminars and the LI, Connecticut Master Gardener’s Conference, Perennial Plant Conference, ELA– just to name a few. Her lectures, classes, and workshops teach successful ways of thinking and techniques.  Learn more about Maria and her work at www.mariavonbrincken.com.

    Preregistration is required at www.masshort.org. Mass Hort members $240, nonmembers $265.

     

  • Saturday, September 28, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Fall & Winter Bloom in the Solar Greenhouse, Unheated Glassed-In Porch, or Spare Bedroom

    Do you want the sights and smells of flowers in winter, but rising fuel costs seem to put a greenhouse out of reach? The solution—the subject of this Berkshire Botanical Garden class—is to go solar! You will learn the basic elements of a solar greenhouse, how to optimize greenhouse performance, how to operate month by month in response to the weather and how to choose plants that are growable and rewarding. The class will take place Saturday, September 28, from 1 – 3 in the Education Center of BBG in Stockbridge. BBG members $22, nonmembers $27. Call 413-298-3926 to register, or sign up online at www.berkshirebotanical.org.

    James Jones is a lifelong gardener and a member of many horticultural societies, with a particular interest in the North American Rock Garden Society, where he has been national president and chapter chair, as well as director of the Seed Exchange. He has recently published a book on his experiences using solar energy, Fall and Winter Bloom in the Solar Greenhouse. He often judges at the Boston Flower Show.  Image from www.houzz.com.

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  • Tuesday, March 12, 9:00 am coffee, 10:00 am program – Just For You

    Priscilla Styer, Blue Ribbon and Special Award winner at the Boston Flower Show 2012, and owner of “Just for You” will guide you through a fabulous floral design program, highlighting form function and color in floral design. She will create 7 or 8 arrangements to be raffled. The program is sponsored by the Community Garden Club of Duxbury and will be held at the Duxbury Bay Maritime School, 435 Washington Street in Duxbury. CGCD members free, public $5.

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  • Wednesday, March 13 – Sunday, March 17 – Boston Flower & Garden Show

    Wednesday, March 13 – Sunday, March 17 – Boston Flower & Garden Show

    The Boston Flower & Garden Show returns to the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston on Wednesday, March 13 through Sunday, March 17, 2013. The theme – Seeds of Change – will showcase how the region’s best green thumbs are fearlessly embracing new plants, methods and materials to increase the beauty, the bountiful harvest and the ecological friendliness of their gardens and outdoor spaces.

    Set to the backdrop of spectacular garden displays by cutting-edge landscape professionals and area nurseries, the 2013 Boston Flower & Garden Show features hours of lectures and demonstrations by top garden writers, industry experts and creative local chefs, shop from a wide marketplace featuring thousands of plants and hundreds of the newest gardening products, and new special events designed to illustrate the changing landscape of gardening.

    Hours are 10 am – 9 pm Wednesday through Friday, and 9 am – 9 pm Saturday, 9 am – 6 pm Sunday. Adults $20, Seniors $17, Children 6 – 17 $10. Tickets may be purchased in advance on line at www.bostonflowershow.com.

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  • Wednesday, April 4, 10:00 am – Ikebana Demonstration with Kaye Vosburgh

    See the art of Ikebana, Japanese floral design, utilizing spring plant materials. Ikebana Instructor of the Sogetsu School Kaye Vosburgh will explain the technique to both novice and experienced students in this linear form of flower arranging. This Garden Club of the Back Bay meeting will be held at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, on Wednesday, April 4, beginning at 10 am, and will be followed by an optional lunch. Members will receive written notice of the program. Non-members may contact info@bostonflora.com if interested in attending.

    Ms. Vosburgh, a member of The Garden Club of the Back Bay as well as Noannet Garden Club, has studied, exhibited and taught in Massachusetts, New York, Japan and Ecuador. She is also a Master Judge in the Federated Garden Clubs and a First Grade Ikebana Teacher in the Sogetsu School. A frequent speaker at flower shows and with garden clubs, Kaye and has earned numerous awards for her designs including the two top awards in the 2008 Boston Flower Show’s Molten Lava category.

     

     

  • Tuesday, March 13 – Margaret Pokorny to Receive Park Partners Award

    Tuesday, March 13 – Margaret Pokorny to Receive Park Partners Award

    Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will present the first annual Park Partners Award to Margaret Pokorny of the Back Bay during the Boston Flower & Garden Show Preview Party at the Seaport World Trade Center on Tuesday, March 13. The Park Partners Award recognizes Boston citizens who make a significant contribution to beautification and the city’s parks.

    A longtime advocate for protecting the natural resources in her neighborhood, Margaret Pokorny has worked closely with residents and city officials to beautify Commonwealth Avenue Mall since she first moved to Back Bay in 1980. She was instrumental in efforts to revive the turf along the Mall, supported the creation of the Women’s Memorial, and has been active in fundraising and caring for trees along the Commonwealth Avenue.

    “Margaret has gone above and beyond in order to preserve the quality of life in the neighborhood by advocating for policies which protect trees and encourage use of Commonwealth Avenue Mall by residents and visitors,” Mayor Menino said. “She is vigilant about engaging her neighbors to help water, replace, and protect trees, especially the Dutch elm population. She is always gracious, honest, and direct. The city is lucky to have such an advocate for our green space.”

    A hands-on booster for Boston’s parks, Pokorny’s personal slogan is “Born to Prune.” Her in-depth knowledge of her neighborhood parks was evident in her final thesis in the Radcliffe Seminars program in Landscape Design in 1992: a history and master plan for Commonwealth Avenue Mall. She was mentored in the project by her friend and neighbor, the late Stella Trafford, known as the Grande Dame of Boston parks for her own involvement with Commonwealth Avenue Mall, the Public Garden, and Boston Common.

    Pokorny worked with Trafford on issues related to the Mall, and became an active member of the Board of the Friends of Copley Square, the Friends of the Public Garden, and the Board of the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay. She also served as Co-President of the Garden Club of the Back Bay and joined the Board of The Esplanade Association when it was founded in 2000. Margaret has also received the Boston Bowl from the Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America.

    Tickets are still available for the March 13 Boston Flower & Garden Show Preview Party taking place from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the eve of the 2012 Boston Flower & Garden Show which opens to the public on March 14. In addition to the award presentation, Dr. Gustavo Romero will speak about the Glass Flowers Collection at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and gardening expert Patti “Garden Girl” Moreno will give a talk on Urban Sustainable Living and the five things everyone can do to live more sustainably in the city.

    For more information or to purchase tickets, please call the Parks Department at (617) 635-4032 or visit www.cityofboston.gov/parks/ttd/flowershow.asp.

  • Tuesday, March 15, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Boston Flower Show Preview Party

    The Boston Parks and Recreation Department will host the Boston Flower & Garden Show Preview Party at the Seaport World Trade Center, from 5:30 – 8 on March 15, 2011. All proceeds will benefit the Boston Parks Department. This event is a great opportunity for both individuals and businesses to support Boston’s parks, from planting new trees to caring for our large, old ones throughout our city’s parks. In addition to helping keep our parks healthy, the Boston Flower Show Preview Party will be a wonderful way to see the flower show: there will be no waiting in lines or working your way through crowds. All guests will receive a gift bag. A Friend or Sponsor will receive a VIP gift bag plus a chance to win fabulous prizes from local businesses. For more information, or to buy tickets online ($125 per person)  please visit the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s website, http://www.cityofboston.gov/parks/ttd/flowershow.asp. You may also call 617-961-3051.  The Boston Flower & Garden Show will be open to the public March 16 – 20.

  • Wednesday, March 16 – Sunday, March 20 – The Boston Flower & Garden Show

    Leave behind the gray days of winter and rejoice in the 2011 show, entitled A Burst of Color: Celebrating the Container Garden. Boston’s biggest horticultural happening provides the tools and inspiration to kick off the season in style.  Hours are 9 am – 8 pm Wednesday, March 16 through Saturday, March 19 and 9 am – 6 pm on Sunday, March 20.   A complete schedule of lectures and demonstrations will be posted at www.thebostonflowershow.com, but some highlights include a talk by Tovah Martin on The New Terrarium, a lecture by Ellen Ecker Ogden  on The Complete Kitchen Garden, and a charmingly entitled “Growing Your Groceries in Containers” by Teresa O’Connor and Jayme Jenkins.   The show plays host to amateur competitions as well, coordinated by The Massachusetts Horticultural Society along with The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts.

  • Thursday, March 25, 11:30 am – 6:00 pm – Gardening Essentials at the Boston Flower & Garden Show

    The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has put together a full day of programs as part of the Paragon Group’s Boston Flower & Garden Show, opening March 24 and running through March 28 at the Seaport World Trade Center.  On Thursday, March 25, beginning at 11:30, Art Scarpa opens the morning with ‘The Care and Feeding of Houseplants’. Whether we live in a grand house or a one-bedroom apartment, houseplants are an essential part of New England because six months out of the year there’s nothing growing and green outside. This program will deal with houseplant basics: selection, care and maintenance. You will come away with your thumb considerably greener.

    At 12:30, MassHort has assembled on stage a virtual encyclopedia of gardening knowledge. Roger Swain, Paul Miskovsky and Kerry Ann Mendez invite everyone to bring their best questions on any topic related to gardening. Swain (pictured below) is the well-know host of PBS’ ‘The Victory Garden’ (he will also speak on the subject of tools on Saturday), who brings a dollop of humor to his broad knowledge of all things botanical. Miskovsky is considered one of the region’s best landscapers. He has installed two gardens on the exhibit floor; one, a 1,080 square foot garden (Falmouth-based Miskovsky Landscaping) and a second one for Heritage Museum and Gardens. Paul creates inspiring gardens for his public and private clients, but he can also tell you how to properly plant a rhododendron. Mendez is a ‘passionate perennialist’, an exceptional gardening speaker and the proprietor of ‘Perennially Yours’ in upstate New York.

    At 1:30, Rita Wollmering offers ‘Ready, Set, Grow – Preparing for a Successful Vegetable Garden’. She’ll take you through the practical steps that lead to a more successful vegetable garden. With planning, preparation and smart planting, gardeners can see an increase in both the health and yield of their plots.

    At 2:30, Betty Sanders talks on ‘The Green, Organic and Affordable Lawn’. The level of hype and dubious information about ‘organics’ has gotten to a state where someone with a wide body of knowledge, no axe to grind and nothing to sell is needed to sort it all out and answer all questions in a way that listeners understand their options.

    At 3:30 p.m., Cathy Felton will talk on ‘Editing the Mature Garden’. What do you do with a yard full of overgrown shrubs and perennials with dead centers? It may be the house you’ve lived in for 40 years or it may be the one you just purchased. Either way, bringing a landscape back to a manageable shape doesn’t always need to be a job for a contractor – or pointlessly expensive. The program will show how incremental steps can undo decades of neglect.

    At 5 p.m., Sally Muspratt offers ‘Small is Beautiful: Do-it-Yourself City Landscaping’. Not everyone has five acres, not everyone can hire a designer. The house in the city with 50 feet of street frontage can have just as much appeal as an estate. But where do you begin when you’re starting with some old boxwood and scraggly grass? This talk will take homeowners on a step-by-step process toward achieving a great landscape in a small space, and is especially appropriate for those of us located in the City of Boston.

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