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  • Thursday, October 25 & Friday, October 26, 8:45 am – 3:30 pm – Landscape Design School

    The popular Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Landscape Design School (LDS) will be held at St. Brigid’s Keilty Hall, 2001 Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington on October 25 and 26, 2018. Landscape Design School (LDS) is a series of four courses presented by distinguished lecturers on landscape design, methods, history, theory and analysis. LDS is open to the public. While the courses do not confer professional status, it is an enriching experience and can serve as an entrée to the subject.

    The speakers this year include Historian Lucinda Brockway; Darrah Cole, Senior Horticulturist and Designer on the Rose Kennedy Greenway; Christie Dustman, APLD; Heather Heimarck, ASLA, of HighMark Land Design; landscape architect and designer Laura Eisener; Designer Yvonne Watson, and Andrew Whittaker, Green Abundance by Design.

    To find out more and obtain a registration slip visit https://sites.google.com/site/ldcmass/lds-course-1—oct-30-to-nov-1-2014. Registration deadline is October 15. $110 for NGC Garden Club Members, $125 for nonmembers.

  • Saturday, April 30, 9:30 am – 1:00 pm – City Garden Ideas: Expert Advice and Practical Tips to Beautify Small Urban Spaces

    Need information and inspiration to garden in your city space? Come learn how to plant for success at First Church, Boston, 66 Marlborough Street, on Saturday, April 30. Light refreshments will be served at 9:30, with presentations beginning at 10 am. Learn about basic gardening tools and supplies. See a window box and container garden created before your eyes. Listen to experts share their gardening knowledge and planting secrets. Ask questions and get answers to your garden challenges.

    Featured Presenters are Ellen Abdow, Owner, Perennial Gardens, Steve Baxter, Grounds Superintendent, 1000 Southern Artery Senior Housing, Quincy, Heather Heimarck, Director, Landscape Institute, Boston Architectural College, Frank Re, Owner, ReCreations – Gardens Brought to Life, and Tom Smarr, former Superintendent of Horticulture, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.

    The fee to participate is $25, and you may register at http://citygardenideas.eventbrite.com. For more information, contact Garden Club of the Back Bay member Janine Mudge at  Janine@citygardenideas.com or call 617-921-4540.