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  • Saturday, October 7 – Sunday, November 5 – 2017 Junior League of Boston Designer Showhouse

    JL Boston is thrilled to announce the 2017 Designer Show House will take place at the 1853 William Flagg Homer House in Belmont, MA just steps away from picturesque downtown Belmont. The house, located at 661 Pleasant Street, is currently owned and preserved by the Belmont Woman’s Club, and was previously owned by William Flagg Homer and his wife Adeline Wellington, uncle and aunt of American landscape painter, Winslow Homer. The house, an architectural combination of both the Bracketed Italianate and French Mansard style, is set on a hill, with sweeping views of the Boston Skyline, and more than twenty soon to be renovated spaces.

    We have a number of exciting dates and events to share: October 7, 2017 – Opening Day: The Designer Show House will be open to the public from Saturday, October 7th through Sunday, November 5th, with special events during this time. Learn all about it at https://www.jlboston.org/2017-designer-show-house/
    Tickets are $30 for JL members, $40 for nonmembers. Hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 – 8, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 – 5. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

  • Tuesday, May 17, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Garden Day at Show House

    Expert horticulturalists will present throughout the day On Tuesday, May 17 under a lovely white tent. Tea and treats will be available for purchase. Your $35 ticket includes one time entrance to Decorators’ Show House 2016 at the 1854 Greek Revival Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton and access to all Garden Day presentations. Boston Junior League Members with a Season Pass for Show House 2016 are invited to join all Garden Day festivities. Purchase tickets online at www.jlboston.org.

    10:00 am – Container & Small Space Gardening
    Edward MacLean, MCLP
    www.pottedup.com

    POTTED UP is an “intimate” landscape design firm. From design to installation, they work closely with their clients to create beautiful garden spaces that reflect their sense of style, enhance their enjoyment of the landscape and offer years of joy. POTTED UP was founded by Landscape Designer Ed MacLean, MCLP. Nearly a decade ago, Ed faced the challenges associated with transforming his own roof deck into an urban oasis. Ed quickly realized the limited resources available to the urban gardener and the challenges that faced them and created POTTED UP to meet those needs. Ed holds a certificate in Landscape Design from The Landscape Institute Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and is a Massachusetts Certified Landscape Professional.

    11:30 am – Flower Arranging
    Lucinda Y. Larson, Floral Designer
    Business (617)696-9765 Cell (617)921-2775

    Lucinda started her floral design and arranging career in 2000 after twenty years in senior financial management. She is a Senior Associate at the MFA and belongs to the Junior League and Milton Garden clubs. She does flower arranging demonstrations as well as events, weddings and funeral flowers for people who are connected to her business by word of mouth. Her arrangements have graced Green Sales, Annual Forbes House tour, galas, openings, Show Houses and St. Michael’s Flower Guild.

    1:00 pm – Bonsai Gardening
    Glen Lord, Horticulturist and Bonsai Expert

    Glen Lord is an avid bonsai artist with over 15 years in the art form. He spent seven years teaching and making bonsai at Bonsai West, the oldest bonsai nursery in the Northeast. He is also the bonsai specialist for the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection that is housed at The Arnold Arboretum. Bonsai is the ancient Japanese method of growing and caring for a tree whose growth is restricted by the size of the shallow pot in which it is planted and by the pruning of its branches and roots. In this presentation Glen Lord, who consults for the Arnold Arboretum’s bonsai (Japanese) and penjing (Chinese) collection of dwarf potted plants, will speak first about the history of bonsai. He will then demonstrate the methods employed in creating and caring for a bonsai.

    2:00 pm – Landscape Design & Planting
    Christine Paxhia, Brush Hill Garden Guru
    www.brushhillgardenguru.com

    Christine Paxhia is a life long gardener who turned her passion into a garden design and coaching business. After 30 years in corporate America, she became a Principal Master Gardener. She spends much of her time designing garden beds, and redesigning landscapes that have become old and overgrown. Her specialties are shade gardens, sun gardens and planters.
    On Garden Day, she will talk you through a few basic principals of designing and planting a garden bed for the shade and for the sun. She will discuss how to determine the site, preparing the site, soil and plant selection.
    Christine will do a planter demonstration with seasonal plants.

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  • Saturday, May 7 – Sunday, June 5 – Junior League of Boston’s 45th Annual Show House

    Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Show House, the Junior League of Boston will host the 2016 Decorators’ Show House at the 1854 Nathaniel Allen House in Newton, Massachusetts. This premier design event will be held May 7, 2016 through June 5, 2016 and will feature the creative talents of the Boston area’s finest designers.

    Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the Nathaniel Allen House was the site of the earliest co-educational school in the country and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Owned by the Newton Cultural Alliance (NCA) since 2012, the property will support small and medium sized performances and cultural events. The proceeds from Show House will support the mission of the JL Boston, and the NCA will be the benefactors of the designers’ wonderful work. For general inquiries or questions, please contact the 2016 JL Boston Show House Chairs, Pamela Berutti and Susan Moussalli, at showhouse@jlboston.org. Tickets are now on sale at https://www.jlboston.org/system/ticket_list/?fundraiser_id=8

  • Tuesday, October 16 – Sunday, November 18 – The Junior League of Boston 2012 Showhouse

    The Junior League of Boston 2012 Show House will open Tuesday, October 16 at The Potter Estate on the grounds of the Jackson-Walnut Park Schools, 71 Walnut Park in Newton, and will run through Sunday, November 18.  Times of operation are Tuesday and Wednesday 10 – 4, Thursday and Friday 10 – 8, Saturday and Sunday 10 – 5, closed Mondays and on Halloween.  Tickets are $30 until October 12, $35 thereafter and at the door, and may be purchased on line at www.jlboston.org, or through a Junior League member.  Directions and parking information are also available on line.  Proceeds benefit the mission of The Junior League of Boston.

  • Monday, January 25, 10:00 am – Eat Your View: Native Edible Plants for Your Gardens

    Expand your palate as well as your concept of food’s place in the garden with native edibles planted in blended garden displays.  In this illustrated lecture New England Wild Flower Society’s Botanic Garden Director Scott LaFleur takes us behind the design and installation of the Garden in the Wood’s new edible plant garden – designed to help change the way we look at the food production system here in the U.S., where most of our daily foods are non-native and produced in mass quantity using fertilizers and pesticides.  Using all native plants, Scott weaves together design approaches, horticultural techniques, and culinary uses that you can translate to your own home.  Scott discusses the concept of a blended landscape, using ornamental plants and edible plants in a design that blurs the lines between a beautiful and a functional garden.  Blended landscapes truly allow you to Eat Your View.  The program will take place at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden on Monday, January 25, beginning at 10:00 a.m., and is co-sponsored with the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and the Junior League of Boston Garden Club.  WCFH, Arnold Arboretum, and NEWFS  members $15, non-members $18.  The course number is HOR 10 060, and you may register at www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or by emailing horticulture@wellesley.edu.

    Persimmons by Henna Lion.