Some of you may notice that while the Garden Club of the Back Bay website looks substantially the same as always, the web address is now bostonflora.com. That is step one of an exciting new venture for The Garden Club of the Back Bay and for me, Francine Crawford. For almost fifteen years (come April) I have curated events of interest to members and friends covering horticulture, the environment, flower arranging, garden tours, meetings, fund raisers, food, natural history, birding, and random previews of books and movies. At first, these posts were centered on Greater Boston. Soon I realized our members spent time on the Cape and Islands, the Berkshires, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Listings were expanded. After COVID became part of our lives, many offerings went online, and suddenly we were able to sign up for educational opportunities anywhere in the country, and indeed the world. Coverage was once again widened to reflect these new options.
We viewed this service as part of The Garden Club of the Back Bay’s educational mission statement. There was just so much content we could produce covering our eight to ten meetings a year. This summer, however, the Board of Directors chose to pursue creating a more member-centered website addressing Club events as the focus, which will soon be published. The site should be very exciting and interactive, and will be available at www.gardenclubbackbay.org, as always. Until the publication date, if you type that address into your browser you will arrive right here. Once the new site is active, you will land there instead of here. Our name will officially change to BostonFlora.com in 2023. Garden Club information such as by-laws, password-protected member lists, event histories, membership sign ups, donations, and so forth will no longer be available on BostonFlora.com, but the archive of past posts will continue, and new content will go forward much as always.
For those of you who subscribe to our email service, receiving our daily posts in your inbox through follow.it, nothing should change. I ask you to bookmark https://bostonflora.com/ on your computers. I so enjoy reaching out to everyone with featured content. This site will always be ad-free, maintained as a public service. There will be links to The Garden Club of the Back Bay site and that new site, in turn, will have a link here.
Updates will follow – official publication date of the Garden Club’s site will be announced. Any questions? Feel free to email info@bostonflora.com.
