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  • Sundays, July 10 – October 9, 10:00 am (except September 4) – Seed to Table

    Join Seed to Table educator Hannah Traggis every Sunday at 10 a.m.at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, now through Columbus Day, to explore our food system and discover the joys of backyard gardening. Learn skills like seed saving, harvesting, and preparing and preserving fresh foods. Each week will be different and connected to the season and natural growing. Craft your own take-away each week. This is a drop-in program, no pre-registration required.

    Mass Hort Members: Free, Non-Members: $5 Please note: there will be no Seed to Table programming on September 4.

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  • Wednesdays, July 13 – July 27, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Color Gardens: Learn to Create Three Season Flower Gardens with Winter Appeal

    In this three-session Massachusetts Horticultural Society tutorial course to be held Wednesdays, July 13, 20 and 27 from 10 – 2 in the Parkman Room of the Education Building at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, Maria von Brincken, landscape designer, will teach you how to use color and plants to design gardens filled with color from flowers and foliage. You’ll learn how to create beautiful plant combinations that flower from spring to frost for sun and shade. Through hands-on practice sessions, participants make a landscape/garden color palette, and then learn the system to design plant combinations in color sequences through the seasons. Finally, take tutorial walks in the Bressingham Garden illustrate class lectures and exercises.

    Maria von Brincken, principle of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating her 21st year in professional practice. Maria specializes in custom beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens using native and ornamental plants.

    Trained as a fine artist, color theorist, and organic gardener Maria brings years of critical design thinking to her landscape solutions. Her design has been featured in Fine Gardening Magazine, Landscape Ideas You Can Use and others. A former contributing editor to Land Shapes Magazine, her writing has also been published in NELDHA’s Perspectives, APLD’s The Designer, and GardenDrum.org.

    Her lectures and workshops have been featured at the MHS, Boston  Flower Show, Radcliffe Seminars and the LI, Connecticut Master Gardener’s Conference, Perennial Plant Conference, ELA– just to name a few. Her lectures, classes, and workshops teach successful ways of thinking and techniques.  Learn more about Maria and her work at www.mariavonbrincken.com.

    Preregistration is required at www.masshort.org. Mass Hort members $240, nonmembers $265.

     

  • Wednesday, June 29, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – The Ergonomics of Gardening

    Plan a trip to Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, on Wednesday, June 29, and enjoy a free session in the Parkman Room of the Education Building at 10 am on The Ergonomics of Gardening. Meet Albert Samano for an introduction to stretches and exercises you can do to keep your body in peak gardening form. Samano has 10 years’ experience as a Master Trainer at the Wellesley Boston Sports Club. He will show you how you can garden with minimal strain on your body. Sign up at www.masshort.org.

  • Wednesdays, June 1 – June 15, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Hands-On Floral Design

    Bring a little bit of your garden indoors. In this three-session class Massachusetts Horticultural Society class to be held Wednesdays, June 1 – 15 from 7 – 9 at Elm Bank, learn how to arrange flowers that you may find in your garden and yard. Barbara Rietscha, owner of Stow Greenhouses in Stow MA, will bring seasonal flowers from her farm to the class and teach you how to condition and arrange them. In the first class, you will be creating an arrangement in a glass cylinder vase. The second class will teach you how to create a dining table centerpiece and for the third class bring your own vase to arrange in. Flowers for all sessions are provided as are vases for sessions 1 and 2. Bring your own flower cutters/scissors and a vase for session 3. Each evening you will go home with a beautiful arrangement of fresh, locally grown flowers.

    Stow Greenhouses is a cut flower farm and floral design studio specializing in fresh-from-the-garden arrangements for weddings and special life events. They sell retail at many area farmers’ markets and at the Boston Public Market. Stow Greenhouses brings the best of what is blooming from their garden to your vase.  Mass Hort members $150, nonmembers $200.  Register at www.masshort.org.

  • Tuesday, May 24, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Jazzing Up the Garden with Color, Contrast and Movement

    Savoring sizzling plant combinations in other peoples’ gardens, Karen Bussolini took a closer look at what made certain combinations work – or not. On Tuesday, May 24 from 1:30 – 3 at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, allow Bussolini, garden writer and consultant, to show you how to create a truly satisfying garden… more than just a bunch of nice plants. She will show you how to make them interact, to carry on a conversation, and to have dynamic contrasts. This Massachusetts Horticultural Society program is $12 for Mass Hort members, $20 for nonmembers. Register online at www.masshort.org/education-classes.  Photo by Karen Bussolini.

  • Thursday, May 19, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Roses

    Thursday, May 19, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Roses

    David Cannistraro, past President of the New England Rose Society, will discuss a selection of rose types, and how to properly plant them, prune them through the growing season, and protect them in winter, on Thursday, May 19 at 7 pm in the Parkman Room of the Education Building at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. He’ll also review best methods to deadhead and fertilize, and include a comparison of natural and over-the-counter sprays.

    A fun program to make rose growing easy, this program will be hands-on with potted rose demonstrations. Mass Hort members $12, nonmembers $20 – register online at www.masshort.org.

    Also, current President of the NE Rose Society Teresa Mosher will be selling and signing her book, A Year in My Rose Garden.

  • Thursday, May 19, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – All About Roses

    David Cannistraro, past President of the New England Rose Society, will discuss a selection of rose types, and how to properly plant them, prune them, and protect them through the winter, at The Gardens at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley on Thursday, May 19 beginning at 7 pm. He’ll also review the best methods to deadhead and fertilize, and include a comparison of natural and over-the-counter sprays. A fun program to make rose growing easy, this program will be hands-on with potted rose demonstrations.

    Current Rose Society President Teresa Mosher, will also be on site, selling and signing her book, A Year In My Rose Garden.
    $12 Mass Hort members, $20 nonmembers. Register at 617-933-4973 or email kfolts@masshort.org.

  • Wednesday, May 11, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Botanical Art for Beginners

    On Wednesday, May 11, in the Putnam Building of Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, Ellen Duarte, member of the NE Society of Botanical Artists, will lead a six-hour introductory workshop meant for any skill level. Participants will be given an overview of botanical art, and be guided through the process of planning and beginning a botanical painting. Class time includes instruction, demonstration, and working time to cover botany, drawing, color theory, painting techniques, and observatory skill building. Paper and paints will be supplied, students will need to bring other materials and lunch (list will be mailed out to registrants). Mass Hort members $85, nonmembers $110. Preregistration required at www.masshort.org.

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  • Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 17 – June 9, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Introduction to Landscape Plants

    The Massachusetts Horticultural Society is now Partnering the Stockbridge School at UMass to offer classes at The Gardens at Elm Bank for UMass credit.

    Introduction to 50 common native and non-native ornamental species in landscape architecture, horticulture and urban forestry in New England. Plant identification from a horticultural perspective covering plant morphology and botany. Horticultural and environmental requirements of each plant will be discussed.

    Class will meet in Wellesley twice a week for four weeks.Tuesdays and Thursdays May 17 – June 9, 6:30 – 8:30 pm.

    Pre-registration required, register now at www.umassulearn.net. $450 for Mass Hort members, $660 for nonmembers. Photo from www.allianceforwaterefficiency.org.

  • Saturday, May 14, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm – Gardeners’ Fair at Elm Bank

    Join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at its annual Gardeners’ Fair on Saturday, May 14, this year featuring Allandale Farm, Boston’s oldest working farm, and the New England Unit of the Herb Society of America.  Special members’ hours 8:00 am – 9:00  am, and public hours 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.  Admission free for Mass Hort members with valid membership card, $5 per car for nonmembers.  Herb Garden tours will be available, and there will be family-oriented workshops such as Fairy Flowers at 10 am and Planting Herbs in a Tea Cup at noon.  The Wellesley Bank will play in the Crockett Garden at 1 pm.

    The Gardeners’ Fair and Plant Sale at Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Elm Bank Reservation includes a variety of vendors carrying everything you need to plan, dig, plant, and enjoy your home garden space. The heart of the Gardeners’ Fair is the plant societies. New Englanders take their gardens seriously and the most passionate gardeners – whether of the indoor or outdoor persuasion – join a plant society dedicated to the pleasure and pursuit of growing a particular genus. At plant society meetings, plants are swapped, exchanged and bartered. At the Gardeners’ Fair, they’re sold to discerning visitors who are looking for the great addition to their garden. With every plant society purchase comes a wealth of advice on care and propagation. There will be representatives from the American Begonia Society, American Rhododendron Society, Gesneriad Society and Hosta Society, among others. Many of the local chapters of specialist plant societies will continue to offer their own plant varieties including unusual and popular cultivars that Society Row has provided for more than 75 years.