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  • Tuesday, October 27, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Garden Club of the Back Bay Pop-Up Flower Arranging with Nancy Cyr, Online

    Tuesday, October 27, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Garden Club of the Back Bay Pop-Up Flower Arranging with Nancy Cyr, Online

    Nancy Cyr, Garden Club of the Back Bay member and Senior Flower Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will offer a Zoom presentation on October 27 at 7 pm on Decorating Mini-Pumpkins with Small Succulents and Dried Flowers. She will use an oasis floral glue. The materials will be available for pick up prior to the session, at a cost of $25, and will include 3 mini pumpkins, dried flowers, succulents, and the special glue. If you wish to join the class and acquire your own materials, you will be sent a link to order the glue online upon registration, along with the Zoom link. Sign up by emailing dianegipsonboston@gmail.com. You may pay online at https://bostonflora.com/shop/ You will receive your Zoom link along with pick up instructions.

    This will be the first of a series of three pop-up Garden Club of the Back Bay flower arranging sessions with Nancy. The next is scheduled for November 19th from 10 am – 11 am, and the third, on December 9 from 3 pm – 4 pm. Details will follow on the November and December classes.

  • Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Create Your Own Big, Beautiful Arrangements

    Do you throw away prunings from your woody trees and shrubs? Learn how to put them to work in bold indoor and outdoor arrangements. Participants will leave with their own beautiful, seasonal arrangement. The Mass Hort class will be held October 21 from 7 – 8:30 in the Putnam Building at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley.

    Materials provided will be:

    * A decorative pot or container

    * Fresh greens

    * Interesting woody materials

    * Seasonal accent materials such as pine cones, dried pods, & berries

    * A list of ideal woody arrangement materials

    * A pruning trimmer (Feel free to bring your own if you have one) 

    Instructor Melissa Pace is an award-winning horticulturalist who competes in numerous garden and flower shows, from Philadelphia Flower Show to the Bolton Fair. She has been a University of Rhode Island Master Gardener since 2003. Melissa has been a presenter for numerous garden clubs and civic organizations throughout New England since 1995. Melissa holds a master’s degree in teaching from Bridgewater University, is an artist and art teacher.

    Interested in becoming a Massachusetts Horticultural Society member, click here for more information.

    $50/Mass Hort member $75/General Admission. Register at www.masshort.org

  • Wednesday, September 23, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – GCBB Fall Flower Arranging Workshop on Zoom

    Wednesday, September 23, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – GCBB Fall Flower Arranging Workshop on Zoom

    The first meeting of The Garden Club of the Back Bay’s 2020/2021 program year will be a virtual flower arranging workshop on Wednesday, September 23 from 4 – 6 pm. Join Garden Club members for a late afternoon session led by GCBB member, Nancy Cyr.  Nancy is a Senior Flower Associate at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.  She studied flower design with a number of teachers including Francoise Weeks.  She believes that flower arranging is for everyone and that, while it is fun to have access to special and unusual flowers, you can achieve beautiful effects with flowers from the grocery store and weeds picked on your walks.  At the end of the workshop, Nancy will take questions from participants.

    There will be a $40 fee for flowers and vase.  To pay your $40.00 fee through the Garden Club’s website, click here:   https://bostonflora.com/shop/

    Or if you prefer, pay by check (made out to the Garden Club of the Back Bay) and mail to Jolinda Taylor, 276 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA  02116. Responses and payment must be received by September 18.

    Flowers/vase can be picked up on Wednesday morning, September 23 between 10 and 11 am at the parking lot of the First Lutheran Church, 299 Berkeley Street. These will be the same flowers/vase that Nancy will use for her demonstration. There is a limit of 20 people for this option. NOTE: Please wear a mask when you arrive to pick up your flowers/vase.

    Floral supplies limited to 20 attendees.  Others may join the call with their own flowers and vase. There will be no charge if you are participating with your own materials, but in order to receive the Zoom link and list of recommended materials, you must email Jolinda by clicking HERE.

  • Friday, June 19, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – Summer Florals with Flower Scout Webinar

    As summer begins in earnest, we witness an abundance of new flowers and foliage emerging in the landscape. In this June 19 Berkshire Botanical online class with Colie Collen of Flower Scout, you’ll learn how to cut, arrange and keep a long-lasting arrangement in your home, using plants and flowers you can find in the fields, woodland edges and garden. Arrange alongside Colie as she describes her principles of floral design and lists some of her favorite cut flowers to grow in your own garden.

    Colie Collen, founder, farmer, and designer at Flower Scout, brings her love of all things wild and seasonal to her work. After many years of farming on the West and East Coasts, her interest turned to flower production in 2012, and subsequently to design. She seeks to create individual experiences for clients, based on the colors, textures and shapes the land/garden/season is creating at this particular moment, with customers’ aesthetic preferences continually in mind.

    The class begins at 5:30 pm Eastern time. BBG members $15, nonmembers $20. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/early-summer-florals-flower-scout

  • Tuesday, May 19, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Flower Arranging Online

    Bring cheer into your home and exercise your botanical creativity, with live, real-time guidance from designer Nsombi Woodson. Watch your fellow students’ efforts online and get personal critiques from your instructor as you build your elegant arrangement with fresh flowers and veggies from your own garden, farmers market or local grocery store. This New York Botanical Garden online class takes place Tuesday, May 19 from 4:30 – 6, and registered students will receive log in instructions. $25 for NYBG members, $29 for nonmembers. Sign up here, and access materials list.

  • Friday, May 15, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Foraged and Farmed, Spring Flower Arranging Webinar

    On May 15 from 5:30 – 7:30 Eastern time, learn step-by-step to create stunning seasonal arrangements. Explore combining foraged and store purchased florals. Learn about shape and color, as well as useful tips for how to make your arrangements last. Use the materials list which will be provided by Berkshire Botanical Garden to have the items on hand you’ll need to create your arrangement in real time. BBG Members $15, Non Members $20. Register at http://berkshirebotanical.org

  • Saturday, May 2 – Monday, May 4 – Art in Bloom CANCELLED

    Philippa Craddock, founder and creative director of England’s Philippa Craddock Flowers and designer of the floral installations and flowers for the 2018 wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will be the featured speaker at the 2020 Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston May 2 – 4. She will give two Master Classes (MFA members $235, nonmembers $280), and a floral demonstration and lecture on Seasonal, Sustainably Grown Flowers ($40/$50). For complete information visit www.mfa.org.

  • Wednesday, May 6, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Mother’s Day Floral Design – Cancelled

    Using flower and foliage that you might find in your own yard and garden, learn the basic techniques of floral design in this Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop led by Barbara Rietscha, owner of Field & Vase. Flowers and supplies will be provided. The workshop will take place in the Putnam Building, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, from 7 – 8:30 pm, but in light of the continuing Covid-19 concerns, please call ahead in the event of cancellation or postponement.

    Preregistration Required. Limited Space. $50 for Mass Hort members, $75 general admission. Register at www.masshort.org.

    Field and Vase by Stow Greenhouses is a floral design studio specializing in fresh, locally grown, seasonal arrangements using flowers cut from our own family-owned farm which is located 30 miles west of Boston in Stow, MA. Our flowers go from the field to the vase within a day of being cut, meaning they smell sweeter and last longer in the vase. We cut the best of what is blooming each day and bring the flower field to you at your home, business or wedding.

    Stow Greenhouses has grown from the wholesale cut lily farm that it was to the expanded floral design studio and cut flower farm that is today’s Field and Vase. In addition to the floral design studio and farm, we operate a retail location at the Boston Public Market, attend seasonal farmers’ markets and supply flowers to local floral designers and businesses. We grow over 90 varieties of flowers including sweet peas, peonies, dahlias, sunflowers and many other old-fashioned favorites.

  • Sunday, April 19, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Build Your Own Bouquet with The Wildflower Truck – CANCELLED

    Experience flower arranging like you never have before as you select your beautiful blooms from a converted 1968 Volkswagen truck. This is flower power all the way! Bring your own vase or purchase one on site. THBG members $60, nonmembers $65. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

  • Tuesday, April 7, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Flower Arranging with Nancy Cyr – Postponed

    Garden Club of the Back Bay member Nancy Cyr cannot hold her next Club pop-up class on April 7 from 6 – 8 at Piattini, 226 Newbury Street, as originally planned. In the future, if rescheduled, you will learn to make small flower arrangements with special flowers. The cost of the class is $50, and you will leave with a lovely flower arrangement to welcome Spring. There will be a cash bar and food will be available for purchase.