Join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the 13th Annual Massachusetts Marketplace Festival on Saturday, August 8, from 10 to 4, at Elm Bank Horticulture Center. The event will feature the finest products from the region’s fields, farms, gardens and kitchens, with over 60 vendors offering new and locally produced food products, crafts, garden ornaments and gifts. There will also be a plant sale and garden tours. Admission is $6 for adults, $4 for MassHort members, and $2 for children under 12. Tickets are available onsite the day of the event. Massachusetts Marketplace Festival is produced by MassHort with in-kind support from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and the Massachusetts Specialty Food Association. For more information, log on to www.masshort.org, or call Kathy Thomas at 617-933-4981.
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Wednesday, June 10, 6 – 8 pm – Floral Designs Inspired by Art
Artwork can be interpreted with flowers just as it can be expressed with words. Kathy Thomas, an accomplished landscape painter and a top floral designer, will use her own works and Elm Bank’s flowers to create a series of arrangements that reflect the mood and composition of the artwork. She’ll show you how she approaches the art and the tools she employs to capture the essence of a painting with flowers. $10 non-members, $5 members. For directions, and to register on line, log on to www.masshort.org.
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Wednesday, May 20 – 6-8 pm – Using Bulbs in a Mixed Border
It’s the middle of May, there has been ample rain, and so everything around your garden probably looks great about now. But what about later on in the season? And, what about the early spring when perennials are still green nubs and deciduous shrubs are bare? That’s when flowering bulbs can make all the difference between a perennial border that draws compliments in May and June, and one that delights the eye from April through September.
Visit Elm Bank, home of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, where Brent Heath of Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, a world-renowned expert on bulbs, will explain how to most effectively incorporate bulbs into a mixed border. His program will include examples, using slides, of various approaches to this type of garden composition. $10 members, $15 general admission. You may register on line and get directions by logging in to www.masshort.org.
This Wednesday evening at 6 p.m., Mass Hort is pleased to welcome Brent Heath, co-owner of Virginia-based Brent and Becky’s Bulbs. Brent is a world-renowned expert on bulbs, and he’ll explain how to most effectively incorporate spring- and summer-flowering bulbs into a mixed border.
Brent’s program will include examples, using slides, of various approaches to this type of garden composition. He’ll bring designs that offer color for spring and summer, showing how even modest investments can return years of bright, long-lasting blooms. He’ll answer questions and offer hands-on advice on caring for and maintaining mixed borders.
If you were on the Greenway from mid-April through early May, you had the opportunity to see a spectacular canvas for Brent and Becky’s Bulbs. They were extremely generous in donating approximately ten thousand daffodil bulbs that brought a blaze of color to the Greenway Gardens.
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Saturday, May 30 – Sunday, May 31 – Open House, A Standard Flower Show
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts and The Massachusetts Horticultural Society present Open House, A Standard Flower Show, at The Manor House & The Educational Building, Elm Bank Horticultural Center, Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02482. Hours are Saturday, 10 – 4, and Sunday, 11 – 4. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Garden Club of the Back Bay Member Donna Morrissey is Co-Chairman of the Flower Show Committee, so we hope all our members will try to attend. Open House is the second joint venture in what may become a biennial tradition at Elm Bank, home of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Each organization is dedicated to the pursuit of perfection in horticulture and design. Inspired by the surroundings at Elm Bank and mindful of the elements and principles of design, the aim of this show is to complement the Georgian House. For directions and more information, log on to www.masshort.org. or www.gcfm.org.
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Saturday, May 9, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. – 29th Annual Herb Plant Sale
The New England Unit of the Herb Society of America is sponsoring the 29th Annual Herb Plant Sale at Elm Bank, home of the Masachusetts Horticultural Society, 900 Washington Street (Route 16), Wellesley, MA on Saturday, May 9 beginning at 9 a.m. Free Admission and Parking. Over 200 varieties of perennial and annual herbs will be available for sale, including culinary, fragrant and medicinal herbs. Proceeds help support educational projects, including the Teaching Herb Garden at Elm Bank. Visit www.neuhsa.org for directions and more information.