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  • Thursday, October 15, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Honorary Medals Awards Dinner

    Each year, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society presents the Honorary Medals Dinner where the leading lights of horticulture are honored. The event gives us the opportunity to recognize the outstanding contributions of horticulturalists, plant innovators, and those who have made significant contributions to the enjoyment and appreciation of plants and the environment.

    Join us Thursday, October 15 at 6:30 pm to celebrate the 2015 honorees, including Kris Jarantoski (pictured below), the recipient of the George Robert White Medal of Honor and Keynote Speaker. Kris Jarantoski is the Executive Vice President and Director at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

    Jarantoski develops and directs the horticulture, plant collections, and facilities and planning of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Since joining the Garden in 1977, Jarantoski has played a major part in the creation of each of the 26 distinct gardens and four natural areas on the Garden‘s 385-acre campus.

    Register at http://goo.gl/oSL1Yo $130 per plate

  • Saturday, October 3, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Pickling the Harvest

    Join Eric Cooper, chef at Ten Tables, on Saturday, October 3 from 10 – noon in the Parkman Room of Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, to learn how you can enjoy the fruits of your labor beyond the growing season. He will demonstrate and share basic pickling techniques to keep local flavor in your diet all year long.

    Chef Eric Cooper has been pursuing his love of food for very nearly two decades on a global quest that’s had him working, teaching and studying the native cuisines in some twenty-five countries or extra-national territories on seven continents and occasionally in international waters.

    Cooper’s culinary career includes stops in the gastronomic capitols of New York, London, Paris and Madrid as well as the forested islands of Downeast Maine and tree-lined neighborhoods of Boston. He’s cooked everywhere from the dusty townships of South Africa to the mountainside Tibetan refugee camps of northern India to the frigid aimags of western Mongolia to the icy wastes of Antarctica and steep rolling seas of the Drake Passage — all in pursuit of a uniquely broad understanding of food and why we eat it.

    Proceeds will help support the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Garden to Table Program. Mass Hort Members $15, Non-Members $20.  Register at www.masshort.org, or call 617-933-4943.  Image from www.seriouseats.com.

  • Wednesdays, September 30 – November 4, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Beginning Floral Design

    Would you like to learn how to create your own floral arrangements with “wow factor?” Have you ever walked through the floral design competitions at the Boston Flower & Garden Show or the Barnstable, Topsfield, or Marshfield Fairs and thought to yourself, “I could do this?” The Massachusetts Horticultural Society is ready to give you the tools to design your own arrangements!

    Beginning September 30 from 7 – 9 and continuing for six Wednesday evening sessions in The Parkman Room in the Education Building at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of how the basics of floral design, you’ll even learn how to enter a competition. The class will cover the basics: how to choose a container, select plant material, and entering a design show. Expert designers will teach you the basic elements of the most popular classes of floral arrangement: traditional, creative, miniature and table design.

    You will receive the encouragement, guidance and the tools that can take you from arranging flowers at home to designing for a competition that will be viewed by thousands. Image from www.pamelaeganfloral.com.

    Course Fee: $100 Mass Hort members; $125 for non-members. Register online at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/181/422|427|430|433/beginning-floral-design-at-mass-hort-2015?filter_reset=1

  • Sunday, September 20, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Fall Harvest Festival Dinner

    Come and celebrate all that is local and abundant! Join us for an evening celebrating the fall harvest and building community in the Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Showcasing the best of local agriculture and seasonal heirloom foods, come share a place at our tables enjoying fine open-air dining, hand-crafted beverages, and music and dancing under the goddesses in the Maple Grove. Twilight tours of the gardens will lead to us to gather together for a festive seated dinner culminating in a magical illuminated candle labyrinth.

    This event supports the Garden to Table program strives to build strong local food systems from the seeds planted to the food grown and harvested and shared within the community. We work to offer high caliber education in horticulture, nutrition, and food production and preparation both in schools and in the Seed to Table and Garden to Table education spaces in the Gardens at Elm Bank. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society also works to raise awareness of food accessibility issues within local, greater Boston, and regional communities.

    Register at http://goo.gl/9NtP7a

    $65 for Mass Hort Members, $75 for Non-members

  • Saturday, September 12, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Introduction to Italianate Gardens

    Massachusetts Horticultural Society Garden Keeper Beth Gray-Nix will discuss the basics of Italianate Gardens on Saturday, September 12 in the Parkman Room of Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley – their history and their composition. Get your hands dirty as you work in the garden along with Beth. Ask your questions and discover why this garden is a destination.

    Beth Gray-Nix is a retired Occupational Therapist. A favorite retirement gift was registration for the Master Gardener class of 2009. Her first volunteer role at Mass Hort was in Weezie’s Children’s Garden. In 2010, Beth became the first Garden Keeper for Mass Hort’s Italianate Garden, site of many family celebrations. Beth’s work in the garden maintains the Italianate as a picturesque destination garden. Beth recently received her WEED certification from Randy Protask.

    Please attend dressed to get your hands a little dirty in the garden. Lecture Fee: Mass Hort Members $5, Non-Members $8. Register online at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/180/422|427|430|433/introduction-to-italianate-gardens?filter_reset=1

  • Saturday, August 29, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Bressingham Basics

    Join Suzanne Higham on Saturday, August 29 at 10 am for an introduction to the Bressingham Garden of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. She will identify different plants and the inspired design concepts that make this a gem of The Gardens at Elm Bank.

    Garden Keeper Suzanne Higham has had the opportunity to spend time in the Bressingham Garden with renowned designer Adrian Bloom. Working beside him, and speaking with him through several seasons, she has a deep understanding of this beautiful garden and Bloom’s vision for its development and future. Work with Suzanne to get a hands-on lesson on how you can grow these plants in your own landscape. Come with questions!

    Owner and principal designer of Frog Hollow Landscapes, Suzanne is an award winning designer, and has worked on a team of designers with Mass Hort to create our award winning gardens at the Boston Flower and Garden Shows in 2014 and 2015. Learn more at www.froghollowlandscapes.com.

    Please attend dressed to get your hands a little dirty in the garden. Fee: Mass Hort Members $5, Non-Members $8. Register online at www.masshort.org.

  • Tuesdays, September 8 – September 29, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, and Saturdays, September 12 and September 26, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Fundamentals of Landscape Design

    This Massachusetts Horticultural Society six session course in landscape design is directed to the do-it-yourself home gardener who would like to design their own garden space. Mark Ahronian of Ahronian Landscaping and Design will lead you through all the steps of designing your chosen space. The goal is for participants to leave the class with a complete design of their own making. Course is $275 for members, $300 for non-members. The class meets at Elm Bank Tuesday evenings, September 8 – September 29 6:30-8:30pm, and two Saturday mornings, Sept 12 and Sept 26 10am-Noon. Registration is limited and pre-registration is required. Register online at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/162/422|427|433/fundamentals-of-landscape-design?filter_reset=1

  • Thursday, August 27, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Tour the Trial Garden

    Join Mass Hort’s Garden Curator David Fiske on Thursday, August 27 at 7 pm for a tour of our unique Trial Garden, one of three in New England. Breeding companies from all over the world contribute the latest and greatest varieties of annuals to the New England Trial Garden for viewing by amateur and professional gardeners. The event will begin in the Parkman Room at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Sip wine and follow David as he shows off this year’s highlights, and vote for your favorite varieties!

    Lecture Fee: Mass Hort Members $10, Non-Members $15 Register on line at www.masshort.org.

  • Thursday, August 20, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Art of Growing Food

    The Art of Growing Food presentation at Elm Bank on Thursday, August 20 from 7 – 8:30 will inspire you to elevate an ordinary vegetable garden to an extraordinary European inspired potager. Discover new techniques to grow food in elegant and artful ways. With gorgeous color photographs from her book, The Complete Kitchen Garden, Ellen will share six steps to easily creating a beautiful kitchen garden.

    This lecture is ideal for new and experienced gardeners or anyone interested in innovative ideas and classic design. The ultimate goal is to learn new ways to design and plant a kitchen garden for productivity, low maintenance and pure pleasure, turning work into play!

    Ellen Ecker Ogden is the author of five books, including her most recent, The Complete Kitchen Garden, and co-founder of The Cook’s Garden seed catalog. She writes many articles regularly featured in Garden Design, Eating Well, Organic Gardening, Country Gardens, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and Martha Stewart Living to name a few. She is also maintains an active website and blog. For more information about Ellen and her work, visit her website here: http://www.ellenogden.com.

    Sign up here today to reserve your space! http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebal4dcu014e540b&llr=kzaorjcab  Mass Hort Members $15, Non-Members $20.

  • Thursday, August 13, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Pomona Festival

    Join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on Thursday, August 13 from 6 – 8:30 at Elm Bank for its free summer music and art series sponsored by Wellesley Bank Charitable Foundation.  August 13 is the traditional day for the Festival of Pomona, the Roman goddess of abundance.  Come to the gardens for an evening of music and tours.  Awards will be given for the most creative costumes.  Bring your own picnic!  For more information visit www.masshort.org.