Boston Flora

Tag: Container Garden

  • Wednesday, April 1, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Early Spring Container Garden – Postponed

    Plant a spring garden that can be grown indoors or enjoyed outside your door on nice days. Fill an attractive container with colorful spring-flowering plants: cyclamen, tulips, primroses, daffodils, violas or pansies accented with lacy ferns, trailing ivies and green moss. Your portable spring garden will look equally charming on a table, windowsill or doorstep. When summer arrives, plant the bulbs in your garden and move the violas, ferns and ivies to a dampish, shady spot to enjoy all summer. This Tower Hill Botanic Garden workshop will take place April 1 from 11 – 1, and is $80 for Tower Hill members, $85 for nonmembers. Fee includes materials. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

    Betsy Williams teaches, lectures and writes about living with herbs and flowers. A gardener and herb grower since 1972, Betsy trained as a florist in Boston and England. She combines her floral and gardening skills with an extensive knowledge of history, plant lore and seasonal celebrations. Betsy is the author of several books on the uses and stories of herbs and flowers. She has appeared on the Discovery Channel and greater Boston cable stations as well as local and national radio talk shows. Betsy lectures and teaches locally and nationally.

  • Sunday, June 3, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm – A Hummingbird Garden in a Container

    Experience the magic of watching a tiny, whirring hummingbird feed on flowers blooming close by! Plant a container for your patio or garden the hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators will love. Fill a 14″ container with 6 summer flowering plants that attract, and feed, pollinators. Bee balms, petunias, larkspurs, nicotianas, verbena, morning glories, salvias and many other long blooming, spilling, twining plants support our important pollinators. With proper care, your Hummingbird Garden will bloom all summer. All materials are supplied: plants, container, soil and a bamboo frame for climbing vines. Image below from http://whiteflowerfarm.com.

    Betsy Williams teaches, lectures and writes about living with herbs and flowers. A gardener and herb grower since 1972, Betsy trained as a florist in Boston and England. She combines her floral and gardening skills with an extensive knowledge of history, plant lore and seasonal celebrations. Betsy is the author of several books on the uses and stories of herbs and flowers. She has appeared on the Discovery Channel and greater Boston cable stations as well as local and national radio talk shows. Betsy lectures and teaches locally and nationally. The class takes place at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Sunday, June 3 from 12:30 – 2:30. $80 for THBG members, $90 for nonmembers. Register at https://towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org/pages/event-registration-form—a-hummingbird-garden-in-a-container

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  • Wednesday, November 3, 10:00 am – Bog Gardens

    Instructor Priscilla Purinton of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society will speak at The Garden Club of the Back Bay’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, November 3, beginning at 10 am at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. Learn to create a  bog habitat for your garden or patio with rare and interesting plants.  Bogs are unique habitats saturated with acidic, low nutrient water that would spell death for most plants.  However, they support a surprising diversity of unique flora that can grow nowhere else.  You will learn how to create a good soil mix, what plants do well (and why) in bog situations, and will also learn how to keep your bog flourishing for years.  The program is free, but reservations are required – email info@bostonflora.com.  An optional lunch will follow the meeting ($20 members of GCBB, $25 for non-members), for which reservations must be made no later than October 29.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written notice of this meeting.

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  • Saturday, April 24, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Create a Mini Bog

    Instructor Priscilla Purinton of the New England Carnivorous Plant Society will conduct a hands-on workshop at Tower Hill Botanic Garden on Saturday, April 24, from 1 – 3 pm.  Priscilla will be a featured speaker of The Garden Club of the Back Bay in November, 2010, and here is a chance to get down and dirty with her! Create a miniature bog habitat for your garden or patio with rare and interesting plants.  Bogs are unique habitats saturated with acidic, low nutrient water that would spell death for most plants.  However, they support a surprising diversity of unique flora that can grow nowhere else.  Wow your friends with this most unusual container garden filled with carnivorous plants, rushes and other bog endemics.  Participants will be provided with all materials and plants, and will learn how to create a good soil mix, what plants do well (and why) in bog situations, and will also learn how to keep the mini bog flourishing for years.  Tower Hill member price $40, non-members $43.  To register, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Wednesday, March 3, 9:00 am – New Harmonies in Container Gardening

    The Powisset Garden Club presents this program, open to the public, on Wednesday, March 3, beginning at 9 am at the Dover Town House, 5 Springdale Avenue in Dover, MA.  Katherine Tracey is co-owner of Avant Gardens, a small specialty nursery in Dartmouth, MA.  They grow a wide variety of uncommon plants, with an emphasis on tender perennials.   Kathy has been selecting uncommon plants for the container displays at Avant Gardens for over a decade.  Her years of experience have allowed her to refine the list to the best and easiest choices for easy care for plant combinations.  This slide presentation will introduce you to many new cultivars and start our creative juices flowing.  For additional information log on to http://maclubs.esiteasp.com/powissetgardenclubofdover.