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  • Tuesday, June 17 – Bees, Blossoms, and Botanicals: Garden to Glass

    GCA in the City, Boston, launches on June 17th with Bees, Blossoms and Botanicals: Garden to Glass. Join us at a secret historic garden in downtown Boston for a tour and some light botanical foraging, followed by a lecture by gardener and beekeeper Allison Waters. Waters will teach about beekeeping and the art of seasonal botanical mixology. This is one garden party you won’t want to miss! GCA in the City events are fun and interesting opportunities to make new friends and learn about the work of the Garden Club of America. They are open to young, non-members. For more information about the event and receive an invitation, email gcainthecity@gcamerica.org

  • Tuesday, July 16 – Wednesday, July 17, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Nautical Nantucket

    The Nantucket Garden Club will host a GCA Flower Show July 16 and 17 at the Siasconset Casino, 10 New Street in Siasconset, Nantucket. Arrangement classes include A Whale of a Tail, On the Horizon, The Captain’s Table, Shipwreck, and Nantucket Red, along with Photography and Horticulture Divisions. A pdf of the guidelines may be accessed HERE.

  • Wednesday, April 24, 6:30 pm – Plastics in the Marine Environment

    The Cohasset Garden Club is sponsoring a free public conservation meeting on Wednesday, April 24 beginning at 6:30 pm at the Lightkeeper’s Residence in Cohasset featuring Jessica Donahue, Research Associate, Sea Education Association. For 35 years, Sea Education Association (SEA) has been compiling the world’s largest dataset about plastics in the marine environment, including documenting the microplastics that float at the ocean’s surface. Learn about this global problem, why it matters, and the most promising approaches to tackle it.

  • Tuesday, September 21, 10:00 am – Guided Horticultural Tour of Zoo New England

    Tuesday, September 21, 10:00 am – Guided Horticultural Tour of Zoo New England

    The 2021/2022 Garden Club of the Back Bay program year kicks off with an outdoor field trip/walking tour of Zoo New England, 1 Franklin Park Road in Boston. Michelle Martinat, horticulturist at Zoo New England, will lead us on a tour of the gardens at the Zoo and discuss the planned changes to select areas, including the project to be funded by The Boston Committee of the GCA restoring an historic rock garden. Michelle oversees, develops and curates a living collection of plants to meet the needs of animal exhibits, display gardens and plant conservation priorities for Zoo New England.  She previously worked as a landscape designer, horticulture instructor, and conducted molecular toxicology research.This is currently planned as a members only event, due to our commitment to keep the tour group small, but if more people sign up than can be accommodated in one group, a second tour will be arranged. Masks are required while indoors. If you have not already responded, click HERE.

  • Thursday, October 22, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Uprooted With Page Dickey, Online

    Enjoy a virtual lecture and Q&A session on October 22 at 6:30 with author Page Dickey about her new book, Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again. Page Dickey knew the transitions she faced walking away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill after thirty-four years. What surprised her were the happy opportunities that came with starting over. Uprooted follows Dickey’s evolution from old to new, cultivated to wild, and from one type of gardener to another. It is a story for anyone who has had to begin anew—in gardening or in life. This virtual Author Talk is presented by Tower Hill Botanic Garden in collaboration with Berkshire Botanical Garden and Timber Press, an imprint of Workman Publishing. All books available for purchase through Tower Hill’s online Garden Shop. A link to the Zoom webinar will be sent after registration in the confirmation email. Author Talks will only be available live. They will not be recorded. $10 for sponsor members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org or at www.berkshirebotanical.org

    Page Dickey has been gardening passionately since her early twenties and writing about gardening, as well as designing gardens for others, for three decades. She has written eight books and edited another, most of which concentrate on aspects of garden design such as creating gardens that reflect their settings. Page was the editor of Outstanding American Gardens, celebrating 25 years of the Garden Conservancy with photographs by Marion Brenner. Her new book, Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again, describes leaving a beloved garden of thirty-four years, finding a home in the northwest corner of Connecticut and falling in love with its land. Page lectures around the country about plants and garden design and has written for House and Garden, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, Horticulture, Elle Décor, Garden Design and The New York Times. She serves on the boards of the Garden Conservancy; Stonecrop Garden in Cold Spring, NY; Hollister House Garden in Washington, CT and The Little Guild in Cornwall, CT and is a member of the Friends of Horticulture at Wave Hill. Page was recently elected an Honorary Member of The Garden Club of America.

  • Wednesday, April 26, 10:00 am – The Emerald Necklace Parks: 130+ Years Later and Counting

    Wednesday, April 26, 10:00 am – The Emerald Necklace Parks: 130+ Years Later and Counting

    The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America will hold its Spring 2017 Lecture and Luncheon on Wednesday, April 26 beginning with coffee and registration at 10:00 am, welcome at 10:30 am, and lecture at 10:45 am, followed by lunch at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline.  The guest speaker is Marion Pressley, FASLA, of Pressley Associates Landscape Architects, who will speak on The Emerald Necklace Parks: 130+ Years Later and Counting.  Marion is a devoted professional who has contributed enormously to the designed landscape through her work in landscape architecture and the restoration of public parks and private historical properties throughout the eastern United States.  Her work has received national recognition in both historic preservation and contemporary design.  Marion’s work in preserving the Olmsted legacy is particularly noteworthy and includes master planning and the implementation of treatment design on the Emerald Necklace Park System.  Her presentation for the Boston Committee will enlighten us on the extraordinary Muddy River project.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive car pool notices.  Open only to members of Boston Committee Clubs.  Lecture and luncheon $60, lecture only $30.  Please make checks payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Karen Gregg, 92 Beacon St. Unit 41, Boston, MA 02108 prior to April 19. Please note your Club on the memo portion of your check.  Names will be held at the door.

  • Wednesday, October 16, 11:00 am – Boston Committee Annual Meeting Featuring Bill Cullina

    The Annual Meeting of The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America will take place Wednesday, October 16 beginning with coffee and registration at 10:30 am, and the meeting at 11 am at The Country Club in Brookline. We are fortunate to have as our keynote speaker Bill Cullina, Bill is the Executive Director at one of North America’s newest and most exciting public gardens, The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine. Bill’s topic is Sugar, Sex and Poison: Shocking Plant Secrets Caught on Camera: The world of pollen, poisons, pigments, pheromones, sugars and sex, and how they translate into sound into sound organic gardening practices.

    A well known author and recognized authority on North American native plants, Cullina lectures on a variety of subjects to garden and professional groups and writes for popular and technical journals. His books include Wildflowers, Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines, Understanding
    Orchids, Native Ferns, Mosses, and Grasses, and most recently, Understanding Perennials, published in 2009.  Members of The Boston Committee clubs will receive invitations by email.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive car pool notices in the mail. If you are not a member but wish to attend, please email info@bostoncommittee.org.

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  • Garden Club of the Back Bay Announces 2013 Grants

    At the Annual Meeting of The Garden Club of the Back Bay, members voted to approve the grant recommendations proposed by its Co-Presidents Jackie Blombach and Jolinda Taylor and by the Executive Committee of the Club.

    Our major focus in the coming year will be the completion of the Linden Project on Beacon Street.  Over 60 historic linden trees will be professionally pruned, at a cost of $35,000.  $5,000 of the total will be paid with a grant received from the City of Boston, with The Garden Club of the Back Bay contributing the balance.  In addition to our tree care project, we will give $5,000 to the Commonwealth Avenue Mall Committee for its tree, turf and soil project on the Charlesgate block of the Mall, and another $5,000 to the Friends of the Public Garden to continue the inoculation of elms against Dutch elm disease.

    Other organizations receiving Garden Club of the Back Bay grants this June are the Boston Nature Center of the Massachusetts Audubon Society – $2,000 to support scholarships for its summer camp for children aged 5 – 14, $2,000 to City Roots/Urban Ecology Institute for a project in partnership with Roslindale Wetlands and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s Urban Wilds Initiative, $2,500 to the Esplanade Association for the Eliot Garden Project, and $1,000 each to the Charles River Cleanup Boat and The Friends of Copley Square, and $500 to The Boston Committee of the GCA, in support of a grant made by the Blossom Fund to The Friends of Christopher Columbus Park for a landscape design plan to beautify a neglected circle adjacent to Christopher Columbus Park.

    Finally, $1,000 has been set aside to honor the victims of the Marathon bombing through a donation to a healing garden at one of the area’s hospitals or rehabilitation centers. In the next few weeks members of the Club will visit potential grantees and assess where the donation will have the most impact.  We will report back when a decision is made.

    Thanks go to all our supporters, those of you who buy a ticket to our Twilight Garden Party on June 4, or a holiday wreath in December, for without your generosity, these worthy expenditures of $56,000 could not be made.

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  • The Garden Club of America 1913 – 2013: 100 Years of a Growing Legacy

    Renowned historian and preservationist William Seale has authored a book to capture the extraordinary 100-year history of the Garden Club of America. Entitled The Garden Club of America 1913 – 2013: 100 Years of a Growing Legacy, the book is more than just a collection of memories.  It is a stirring account of the contributions GCA has made to the political, historical and cultural fabric of our nation. In 1904, Elizabeth Price Martin founded the Garden Club of Philadelphia. In 1913, twelve garden clubs in the eastern and central United States signed an agreement to form the Garden Guild. The Garden Guild would later become the Garden Club of America (GCA), now celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2013. GCA is a volunteer nonprofit organization comprised of 200 member clubs and approximately 18,000 members throughout the country.

    Comprised of all women, GCA has emerged as a national leader in the fields of horticulture, conservation, and civic improvement. As an example, in 1930, GCA was a key force in preserving the redwood forests of California, helping to create national awareness for the need to preserve these forests, along with contributing funds to purchase land on which they stood. The Garden Club of America Grove and the virgin forest tract of Canoe Creek contain some of the finest specimens of the redwood forests.

    The Garden Club of America is a centennial celebration of strong women who nurtured the country, helped spread the good word of gardening, and continue to plant seeds of awareness.You may order the book online at http://www.gcamerica.org/images/FCKUploads/file/Centennial%202013/GCAHistoryBookOrderForm19Aug2012.pdf.  It is also available from Amazon in both a hardcopy and Kindle edition.

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  • Thursday, May 9, 10:30 am – Boston Committee of the GCA Spring Meeting and Luncheon

    The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America invites members of its constituent fourteen clubs to its Spring Meeting and Luncheon on Thursday, May 9, beginning with registration and coffee at 10:30 am at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline. The featured speaker will be John Tschirch, Director of Museum Affairs for the Preservation Society of Newport County, speaking on The Eden of America.

    John Tschirch is an architectural historian specializing the in the artistic and social evolution of historic houses and landscapes. He joined the Preservation Society of Newport County in 1986; in 2010, he became the director of the newly created Department of Museum Affairs, where he oversees curatorial, conservation and academic program functions. Mr. Tschirch has lectured widely on houses and gardens from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. He is the author of the Preservation Society publication Newport Landscapes (2004) and The Evolution of a Beaux Arts Landscape: The Breakers in Newport, RI for the Journal of the New England Garden History Society (Fall 1999) and serves as historic advisor for the Preservation Society’s 11 historic landscapes.

    Newport was referred to as the “Eden of America” by Jedediah Morse in the First Geography of the United States (1789). This illustrated lecture presents landscape paintings by leading American artists and rare photographic views that capture Newport’s distinguished gardens from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Avid patrons, talented gardeners, legendary garden parties and present-day efforts to preserve this remarkable landscape heritage will come alive as historian and raconteur John Tschirch evokes the history he sees— quite literally—thick on the ground.

    The cost of the lecture and luncheon is $60, lecture only $30. Please make your check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Karen Gregg, 238 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,  Massachusetts 02116 before Monday, May 6 and note on the memo portion of your check your Garden Club affiliation. All reservations will be held at the door. Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written invitations and a car pool notice in the mail.

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