Boston Flora

Tag: Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts

  • Wednesday, October 8 – Friday, October 10 – Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Flower Show School Course I

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will sponsor Flower Show School Course I: Growing, Staging, Exhibiting and Judging on October 8, 9 and 10 at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 11 Beaver Street, Milford, Massachusetts.  Subjects to be covered will be Design, with Garden Club of the Back Bay member Kaye Vosburgh, Flower Show Procedure Parts I and II, with Barbara May, and Horticulture, with Catherine Felton.  The full course with exam is $120, and lunch each day is $17.  To print the registration form go to http://gcfm.org/education/schoolsandregistration and click on “Flower School.”  For more information call Cathie Healy at 508-429-5055.

  • Mondays, October 6, November 3, and March 23, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Back to Basics: Designing Principles in Floral Design

    Mondays, October 6, November 3, and March 23, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Back to Basics: Designing Principles in Floral Design

    Join the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts for a series of interactive programs with distinguished Massachusetts designers, demonstrating how to create designs, on Mondays, October 6, November 3, and March 23, at The Espousal Center, 554 Lexington Street in Waltham.  The classes will be held from 10 – 12, and the total fee for all three sessions is a mere $30.  Make check payable to GCFM, Inc. and mail it to Diane Bullock, 456 Shore Road, Cape Neddick, ME 03902, along with your name, address, telephone number, email address, and Garden Club name.

    IMG_0251

  • Saturday, July 19 – Saturday, July 26 – Barnstable County Fair 35th Standard Flower Show

    The 35th Standard Flower Show at the Barnstable County Fair will take place Saturday, July 19 – Saturday, July 26, presented by the Southeastern District Garden Clubs. Fair Hours Monday – Thursday July 21 – July 24: 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM; Friday – Sunday July 25 – July 27: 12:00 Noon – 10:00 PM. The Fairgrounds are located at 1220 Nathan Ellis Highway, Route 151, East Falmouth, and paid and free parking are available. $12, $9 seniors, and for complete information visit www.capecodfairgrounds.com.

  • Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Organic Garden Project with Franklin Park Zoo

    Last fall, the Board of Directors of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts agreed to participate with the Franklin Park Zoo in a special and unique garden initiative named the Organic Garden Project (OGP). The garden will raise food for the animals to offset the annual food costs. The Garden Club Federation’s role is to provide volunteers.

    • In April, the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston established their rotating horticulture garden at the zoo to grow varieties of nutritious greens and other crops to feed the gorillas, anteaters, giraffes, zebras, birds and more. Now volunteers are needed from June through August 2014 to sow seeds, water and harvest the crops.

    • The zoo needs a maximum of three volunteers each day to support this 50’ x 60′ garden.

    • Volunteers may sign up for two hour shifts from 10 am – 12 noon on Mondays and Wednesdays beginning June 2nd through August 27th.

    Please sign up to volunteer to help.  Organize a group to volunteer every Monday and Wednesday for a month this summer. If you belong to a club with a youth gardeners’ group, encourage them to volunteer as a summer activity (volunteers must be 14 years or older).

    It is so easy to sign up.
    To volunteer, go to: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0B4AACA72BA5FF2-zoonew and enter the information requested. For more information, contact Ali Fioretti, Volunteer Coordinator for Zoo New England. She can be reached by email (afioretti@zoonewengland.com) or phone at 617-989-2017 or 617-259-4360.

    This is an exciting and amazing opportunity for our members to help Zoo New England… and the animals that will be fed by your efforts!

  • Wednesday, May 21, 10:00 am – Floral Fantasy with Marie-Francoise Deprez

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. Ruth A. Wallack Fund presents Floral Fantasy with Marie-Francoise Deprez, internationally acclaimed designer, on Wednesday, May 21, beginning at 10 am at Regis College Fine Arts Center in Weston, Massachusetts. Seating is limited.

    Marie has her 3rd degree DAFA from the French National Horticultural Society, is a floral art teacher and national judge.  She has a passion for photography and takes most of her pictures herself. She is the author of Jeux de Fleurs : Art Floral Bourg-en-Bresse and Passion Florale.

    Tickets are $20 – send a stamped, self-addressed envelope with a check made out to the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts to Helga Frazzette, Box 853, Eastham, MA 02642.  You may also call Helga for more information at 508-255-6664, or email frazz@comcast.net.

    http://images.amazon.com/images/I/41VW8GEDD7L.jpg

  • Thursday, March 27, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm – Civic Development Projects: What Worked, What Didn’t

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will present a civic development workshop on Thursday, March 27, from 9 – 12:30 at the Espousal Center, 554 Lexington Street, Waltham, entitled Civic Development Projects: What Worked, What Didn’t.  Learn how to work effectively with civic authorities to make everyone proud. Photo below of a Garden Club of the Back Bay civic project courtesy of Penny and Ed Cherubino of www.bostonzest.com. Cost is $15 per club OR bring one item for the Raffle Table.  Multiple club members may attend for just one club donation.  To register contact Louise Sironi at 781-826-8421, or email sironied@verizon.net.  

    http://bostonzest.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54fc42bb888340192ac268361970d-500wi

  • Monday, March 3, 10:00 am – Vegetables for Your Garden

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will present a horticultural morning with Betty Saunders on Monday, March 3, beginning at 10 am at South Church, 41 Central Street in Andover.  Garden keeper of Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s bountiful vegetable garden at Elm Bank, Betty shows us how to grow delicious vegetables.  $5 payable at the door.  For more information contact Betsy Williams at 978-470-0911 or email betsy@betsywilliams.com.

    http://www.masshort.org//images/Leaflet/2012-07/vegetable_garden.jpg

  • Saturday, February 1, 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Winter Interlude

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will hold a fund raising event – Winter Interlude – on Saturday, February 1, from 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm at the Beechwood Hotel, 363 Plantation Street in Worcester.  The cocktail party will feature The Wonderful World of Floral Design.  Enjoy a delightful afternoon walking through a wonderland of floral designs as you feast on delicious hors d’oeuvre and drinks, while listening to live music in a beautiful ballroom highlighted by antique stained glass windows.  Donation $50, cash bar.  For tickets call Bonni Asbjornson at 978-692-8685, or email asbjornson@comcast.net.  For information call Joyce Bakshi at 978-470-0263, or email Joyce.bakshi@comcast.net. All designs and more will be raffled at 6 pm, and a portion of your donation may be tax deductible.

    http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3380/3577687400_8bf4745cc3_z.jpg

  • Saturday, December 7, 10:00 am – Holiday Wreath Workshop

    Saturday, December 7, 10:00 am – Holiday Wreath Workshop

    As part of Elm Bank’s Festival of Trees Celebration, Mass Hort is offering this hands-on workshop on Saturday, December 7, beginning at 10 am, to create beautiful wreaths and swags to take home for the holiday season. Marisa McCoy will lead participants in design, choice of materials, and wreath composition. Through her vast depth of experience and under her gentle guidance you will create a wreath that appeals to your own design and color sense and one which you will be proud to display for the world to see.

    Marisa is a Nationally Accredited Master Flower Show Judge, and the current President Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. Marisa is also a floral design instructor, garden club speaker, active member of the MFA Senior Associates, and a custom wedding and special occasion floral designer. All materials will be provided. $45 for Mass Hort members, $55 for nonmembers. To register or for more information: www.masshort.org. And if you’re too busy to attend, link here before midnight tonight to order a beautiful wreath from The Garden Club of the Back Bay, like the one pictured below, which you can pick up this coming week.

    http://o1.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/PATCH/format/jpg/quality/82/resize/267x295/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/patch/810d41cd5d3f75ccf95b8a8332bbfba2

  • Wednesday, October 23, 8:00 am – 2:30 pm – Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Fall Conference

    Please join President Marisa McCoy for the 2013 GCFMA Fall Conference on Wednesday, October 23 at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center, 1657 Worcester Road in Framingham.

    8:00 a.m. Registration, Coffee and Boutique Shopping

    9:00 a.m. Welcome, Announcements and Business Meeting

    9:30 a.m. The Federation…Who we are and what we do! Communications, our schools, our councils, our outreach and you!

    10:45 a.m. Awards and Presentations

    11:00 a.m. Boutique Shopping and Social Hour

    12:00 p.m. Luncheon

    1:00 p.m. Designs with On Thai, AIFD, owner of Surroundings Floral Studio in Schenectady, New York.  Mr. Thai has been a member of AIFD since 1990 and is has won numerous awards in local, regional and national competitions. He won Best of Show in the International Flower Show two years running, and took first place in Teleflora’s People’s Choice Award, and seven times Best of Show in the Northeast Floral Exposition. He has made many garden club demonstrations for the Federated Garden Clubs of the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts; and has been a lecturer/demonstrator for the Northeast Floral Expo held in Connecticut and for the Garden Club of Seattle, Washington. A few years back, Mr. Thai presented a floral design program in the United Kingdom before The Club in the Park, a prominent and innovative garden club in the north of England. While there, he instructed a class in the art of contemporary floral design. He has kept busy on such assignments as creating floral arrangements for the annual Whitney Ball during the racing season in Saratoga, N.Y. as well as the New York State Thoroughbred Gala at the Saratoga Golf and Polo club, the annual National Museum of Racing Ball and the Betters Ball at the Saratoga Track.

    2:15 p.m. Raffle and Registration Report

    2:30 p.m. Adjournment

    For Boutique space contact Lisa Bourgeois at lbourgeois@lowellgeneral.org. For overnight accommodations please call the Sheraton Framingham Hotel & Conference Center at 508 875 2541. Ask for the Garden Club rate of $149.00.  To register for the Fall Conference, visit http://www.gcfm.org/MeetingsandEvents/FallConference.aspx and click on to the Registration Form link.

    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bM-9blyUYjU/TXAxJaCU8oI/AAAAAAAABSw/A3M4fIhVfOE/s400/NYIB201116.jpg