Join The Garden Conservancy on Sunday, June 1 for a special partnership with COG Design. The three sites are Hood Bike Park, Charlestown, from 10-12, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, from 2-4, and COG designer Shoma Haque’s Jamaica Plain garden from 10-4. Tickets and complete information will be available at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/. On June 21, head to New Bedford to Abolition Row Park from 12 – 2.
Join Community Outreach Group on ZOOM next week for its ANNUAL PROJECT SHOWCASE with special guest speaker Representative Nika Elugardo, MA 15th, Thursday, October 14, 6-7pm.
Additionally, Cogdesign is accepting applications for new green space projects through October 31st. Do forward our Call for Projects to colleagues you think might be interested in this pro bono opportunity. Although the pandemic has slowed some of the work, it has not curtailed our commitment to our community partners and their projects.
Projects are accepted based on need. We hope to take on 4-5 new projects this Fall. Call or email Jennifer Kimball with any questions.
It’s time for our annual Call for Projects. We’re accepting applications now through Halloween. Please spread the word. There are three ways you can apply: online from our website, email to us as a pdf downloaded HERE or print and mail. Please do send photos of your site. If you don’t know who owns the land or you don’t have a future maintenance plan for this project we still look forward to receiving your application. Get in touch anytime with questions:781-642-6662 or email info@cogdesign.org. Mailing address:
COGdesign PO Box 380275 Cambridge, MA 02238
The Garden Club of the Back Bay is pleased to participate in this year’s COGdesign Online Auction, beginning March 25 at www.cogdesign.org.
The Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COG) will hold its annual online auction Thursday, April 3 – Wednesday, April 9. Visit www.cogdesign.org and get started. Looking for a private garden consultation? A specimen tree? Or maybe a classic teak bench to place in your garden? Then prepare to bid early and often at the 10th annual In the Garden online auction.
All proceeds are used to build and improve neighborhood gardens and parks throughout greater Boston. In the Garden offers specialty goods and services for the discerning gardener and attracts great interest and spirited bidding.
Among the prized offerings this year are a winter-proof Lunaform planter, specialty seeds and tools, organic compost, and massage gift certificates for the achy gardener! Retail values for auction selections range from $30 to $1,000 — something for every budget.
COGdesign is a non-profit service organization offering quality landscape design for community-based groups, meaningful professional experience for student and practicing landscape designers, and volunteer opportunities for those interested in strengthening communities by creating and improving neighborhood green spaces.
Vital Spaces, Vibrant Lives: A New Vision for Symphony Park is a panel discussion about the collaborative process of developing a design concept for Symphony Park in the East Fenway neighborhood of Boston. To be held Thursday, March 29 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm, it is one of a series of special events in 2012 organized by COGdesign to celebrate 15 years of providing pro bono landscape design services to community groups throughout greater Boston. The free program (donations appreciated) will take place at Church Park Apartments Penthouse, 221 Massachusetts Avenue (across from the Christian Science Center.) For more information, call 781-642-6662, or email info@cogdesign.org.
Eudora Welty’s Mississippi garden ran riot with the camellias, roses, and daylilies that she tended as zealously as her prose. The novelist, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for The Optimist’s Daughter, cultivated characters for her stories along with the flowers that she grew in her modest Jackson garden.
A fine new book by Susan Haltom and Jane Roy Brown looks at Welty’s enduring relationship with her garden, to which she turned as a respite from her travels and the pressures of making a living as a writer. The garden and house where Eudora Welty (1909-2001) lived and wrote is now a museum, and the garden has been restored to its heyday in the 1920s through the ’40s.
Welty’s letters, published for the first time in this book, reveal witty and telling observations about not only gardening, but also fellow gardeners. She wrote to a friend, “The delphiniums I planted in my ignorance have all bloomed like everything and are getting ready to bloom for the second time and Mother says the ladies of the garden club come over each day to worship and grit their teeth.”
On Wednesday, December 7, from 3 – 5, come hear Jane Roy Brown speak about Miss Welty’s garden and how its formation also offers a compelling look at the broader social trends of the time, including the flourishing of womens civic involvement through garden clubs and the development of streetcar suburbs. Brown serves as director of educational outreach at the Library of American Landscape History. Her writing has appeared in the Boston Globe as well as in national publications.
Admission to the book talk is free but an RSVP is requested to mhorn@masshort.org. The event is co-sponsored by COGdesign (www.cogdesign.org) and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (www.masshort.org). The event takes place at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley.
COG-Design (Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design) will hold a sale of perennials, annuals, trees and shrubs on Saturday, May 22, from 9:30 – 2:30 at the Espousal Center, 554 Lexington Street in Waltham. In addition to the plants, reduced priced gardening gloves and other gardening items, you will have the opportunity to purchase a $25 fifteen minute on the spot Garden Design Consultation with professional designers. Bring your photos, sketches, and questions, and get answers and suggestions for your problem areas. Planter ideas will also be showcased. For more information, call 781-642-6662, email info@cogdesign.org, or log on to www.cogdesign.org.
COGdesign announces the In The Garden Online Auction to benefit community green spaces. Bids will be accepted through Tuesday, April 13, at www.cogdesign.org. Items include a granite compass rose by sculptor Karin Stanley (pictured below), a weekend getaway on Martha’s Vineyard, organic compost from Coast of Maine, a 7’ tall hand-crafted iron tuteur in Mediterranean blue, and many other wonderful items for bidding! Hand tools, house improvement services, garden-inspired art, personal adornments (beads), wine & food, garden consultations, museum memberships, books, ONE-OF-A-KIND treasures, and, naturally, a Garden Club of the Back Bay holiday wreath.
In The Garden Online Auction is brought to you by COGdesign – the Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design – landscape professionals dedicated to providing pro bono planning and design services to homeless shelters, public schools, community gardens, low income housing, and neighborhood parks. Wherever people need plants, gardens, and parks, you’ll find COGdesign volunteers lending a hand.
Celebrate the start of spring by visiting IN THE GARDEN Online Auction to invigorate your hibernating soul and satisfy your craving for sunshine and warmth! Color, crafts, and creative inspirations will be yours for the highest bid.
