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  • Saturday, February 13, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Galentine’s Day Flower Workshop, Online

    What is Galentine’s Day? In the words of Lesley Knope, “only the best holiday ever!” Get ready to celebrate, grab your bestie and BYOB to this Berkshire Botanical Garden online flower arranging workshop with Colie Collen of Flower Scout. Learn some tips and tricks to make arrangements that make perfect gifts, for a friend or for your own enjoyment.  $12 for BBG members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/galentine%E2%80%99s-day-flower-workshop

    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. Colie seeks to create individual experiences for clients based on the colors, textures and shapes the land/garden/season is creating at a particular moment, with customers’ aesthetic preferences continually in mind.

  • Tuesday, October 14, Tuesday, January 13, and Tuesday, April 14, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Designing Workshops

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will present a three part design workshop in 2014/2015, on Tuesdays, October 14, January 13, and April 14, in the Hunnewell Building of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley.  The fee for all three sessions is $135, which includes all materials and instruction.  If a registrant cannot make any workshop, he or she may designate another to take his or her place, or may send someone to take the flowers and container home.

    All attendees will need: clippers or floral snippers, a notebook, a box to carry the arrangement home, and a clean-up bag.  If Wellesley schools are closed for snow, the workshop will be rescheduled to the next day.  Mail your check, made out to GCFM, Inc., to Fluffy Winner, PO Box 457, West Falmouth, MA 02574.  Include your name, address, Garden Club name, telephone number, and email address.

  • Tuesdays, October 6, 13, 20 & 27, 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Flower Design with Al DeLuca

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts is sponsoring a series of floral design workshops with Al DeLuca, A.I.F.D., A.A.F., Flor-Al’s Inc.

    On October 6, enjoy Designing with Fruits and Vegetables.  Fruits and vegetables add exciting color, texture and focal interest to a floral design.  Learn how to select produce, condition it, and place it in an arrangement for long lasting pleasure.

    October 13 brings a session entitled Autumn Arrangement.  Incorporating the bounty of color in New England, participants will create a beautiful arrangement utilizing the richly hued floral product available during the autumn season.

    The next workshop, Trans-seasonal Arrangement, takes place on October 27. This class is designed to help you make an arrangement that will be appropriate for Thanksgiving and can be transitioned into Christmas.  The arrangement will include both fresh and permanent materials.

    Each session costs $55 for Tower Hill members, $60 for non-members.  You may register on-line at www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Wednesday, October 7, 1 pm – 2:30 pm – Workshop: Flower Arranging

    If you are a member of the Museum of Fine Arts (and we hope all our Garden Club members will consider joining if not already a member), drop in to the Riley Seminar Room on Wednesday, October 7, between 1 pm and 2:30, and get fresh ideas on how to realize the fine art of floral arranging.  Members of the MFA’s acclaimed flower team (again, some of our own members are counted among these talented designers) will share tips and an abundance of creative ideas.  The event is free, open on a first-come, first-served basis.  Accompanying guests are admitted subject to the general admission privileges of your membership.  Please have your MFA membership card available for check-in.  For more information, log on to www.mfa.org.

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