The Lenox Garden Club presents a GCA Flower Show at Ventfort Hall, Museum of the Gilded Age, 104 Walker Street in Lenox. The show will be open to the public from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Thursday and Friday, September 15 and 16. For more information, contact Mary Ellen O’Brien at maryellenobrien@hotmail.com, or check the Lenox Garden Club’s website, www.lenoxgardenclub.net.
The Village Garden Club of Dennis will present the Josiah Dennis Manse Flower Show on Tuesday, August 23, from 10 – 4, at the Josiah Dennis Manse, 77 Nobscusset Road in Dennis. Visitors will enjoy an assortment of floral arrangements and horticulture displays, provided by members of the garden club. Admission is free, but donations will be gratefully accepted to benefit the club’s community initiatives.
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc, and the Southeastern District present “Handwork” a standard flower show at the Barnstable County Fair, Fair hours: July 16 -24 , 12:00 noon – 10:00 pm. Cost: Fair Admission ($10 adult, $8 Seniors and Military, Children under 12 free). The Barnstable County Fair has been an annual summer tradition on Cape Cod for 164 years. The Fair is a place where families can spend the day together and share experiences they can only experience at the Barnstable County Fair.There are animal shows, 4-H demonstrations, petting zoos, horticulture displays, rides, games, live music, arts & crafts, food and commercial vendors with various arts and crafts for sale.  For a complete schedule or entry information contact Hila Lyman, Design Division Entries Chairman, at 508-548-0841, or email her at hilajeanne@comcast.net. For more information on the Fair, log on to www.barnstablecountyfair.org.
The North Shore Garden Club, a member of The Garden Club of America, presents C’est la Vie!, a Garden Club of America Flower Show, on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at Willowdale Estate, Bradley Palmer State Park, 24 Asbury Street in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from 1 pm – 5 pm. The show is open free of charge to the public. Founded in Manchester, Massachusetts in 1915, the North Shore Garden Club’s priorities are education, service and protecting the beauty of Essex County’s natural resources. For more information, log on to www.nsgcma.org.
Art in Bloom at the Fitchburg Art Museum will take place Friday, April 15 (12 noon – 4 pm) and Saturday and Sunday, April 16 and 17 (11 am – 5 pm). Log on to www.fitchburgartmuseum.org, or call 978-345-4207 for more information. Fitchburg Art Museum is North Worcester County’s oldest and most treasured cultural institution, founded in 1925 through a bequest of artist and educator, Eleanor Norcross. Fourteen galleries house a diverse collection of American and European paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics and decorative arts as well as Greek, Roman, Asian and pre-Columbian antiquities. In addition, the Museum organizes temporary exhibitions of works from other museums, private collections, and emerging and established contemporary artists.
Through the art of floral design, Garden Club Federation members of Central North and Central South Districts will trace New England’s literary and cultural traditions in a standard flower show at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, beginning Friday, October 22 through Sunday, October 24, from 10 – 5. The horticulture division will highlight the best plant specimens from our New England landscape. For more information, log on to www.towerhillbg.org.
The 2010 Newport Flower Show will take place at Rosecliff from Friday, June 25 through Sunday, June 27. Tickets may be purchased at www.newportmansions.org. The Opening Night Cocktail Party will take place from 6 – 9 pm on Friday, although the show itself opens at 10:30 am that morning, closing at 5 pm to ready itself for the benefit gala. Hours on Saturday and Sunday are 9 am – 5 pm. Bartlett Tree Experts are the Presenting Sponsor. All proceeds from the Newport Flower Show are dedicated to the ongoing restoration and maintenance of The Preservation Society of Newport County’s 88 acres of gardens and landscapes.
The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. and the Southeastern District presents “A Garden Tour”, a standard flower show at the Barnstable County Fair, Fair hours: 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm every day. Entries are open to all members of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. and any members of National Garden Clubs, Inc. New entry days are Saturday, July 17 and Wednesday, July 21. An exhibitors’ meeting will take place Friday, June 11, at 9:30 am. For more information on entering, contact Flower Show Chairman Robin Murphy at 508-295-9076, or email heroncreekdesign@msn.com. For a complete schedule or entry information contact Hila Lyman, Design Division Entries Chairman, at 508-548-0841, or email her at hilajeanne@comcast.net.
The Barnstable County Fair has been an annual summer tradition on Cape Cod for 164 years. The Fair is a place where families can spend the day together and share experiences they can only experience at the Barnstable County Fair.
There are animal shows, 4-H demonstrations, petting zoos, horticulture displays, rides, games, live music, arts & crafts, food and commercial vendors with various arts and crafts for sale.
For more information on the fair, log on to www.barnstablecountyfair.org.
In connection with the previously reported Nantucket Daffodil Festival, the Nantucket Garden Club, Inc. (member of The Garden Club of America), in conjunction with The American Daffodil Society, Inc., will host the 36th Annual Daffodil Flower Show on Saturday, April 24, from 2 – 5, and on Sunday, April 25, from 10 – 4:30. The title of this year’s event is Island Lights, and the show organizers encourage entries in horticulture, arrangement and photography. All entrants are encouraged to use www.daffodilusa.org for assistance in identifying specimens. For more information, contact Sally Nash at 508-228-4912, or email sally@Polpis.com, or Mary Malavase at 508-221-2093, email mmalavase@comcast.net. No admission charge.
The Brockton Garden Club presents The Garden Show and a Standard Flower Show emphasizing the 4 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover, on Sunday, April 11 at The Shaws Center, 1 Lexington Ave., Brockton, Massachusetts. For hours and complete schedule and information, contact Peg Kearney at 508-942-7535, or email brocktongc@verizon.net.
