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  • Saturday, April 1, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon Eastern – Time Saving Sustainable Maintenance Strategies for Lush Flower Gardens, Online

    This info-packed Massachusetts Horticultural Society online lecture on April 1 from 11 – 12 covers seasonal maintenance tasks, including jump-starting gardens in spring and putting them to bed in the fall, as well as routine tasks such as watering and weeding. Topics include pruning; fertilizers; mulch; plant divisions; planet-friendly pest and disease practices; critter management and more. Most appropriate for gardeners in Hardiness Zones 3 – 7. 

    Instructor: Kerry Ann Mendez is an award-winning garden educator, author and design consultant based in southern Maine.  In 2014 she received the Gold Medal award from Massachusetts Horticultural Society for “Exceptional teaching and writing that increases public enjoyment and appreciation of horticulture.” Her gardens have been featured in numerous magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Fine Gardening, Country Gardens, Garden Gate and Horticulture. Kerry Ann’s gardens have been featured in many gardening magazines, including Fine Gardening, Garden Gate, Country Gardens, Horticulture and Better Homes and Gardens. In 2016 Kerry Ann started producing international gardening Webinars that have been enjoyed by thousands. She provides on-site and virtual garden design services for hundreds in Hardiness Zones 3-7.  $13.95. Register at www.masshort.org

  • Tuesday, July 25, 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm – Bressingham Garden Symposium 2017

    Join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society on July 25 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of this beautiful garden at Elm Bank! They have arranged a day led by the experts, presenting on how you can create a unique four-season landscape that is truly inspirational. Garden designer and creator, Adrian Bloom, plantsman of the Bressingham and Foggy Bottom Gardens in England, will talk about the garden’s design intent and year-long appeal. The symposium will also feature Michael Dirr, America’s top expert on woody plants; Kerry Ann Mendez, garden design, speaker and author; and Mal Condon, hydrangea expert.

    And, you’ll want to stay for the 10th Anniversary celebration of the Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank- wine and hors d’ oeuvres in the garden.

    Plant Sale: 11:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Suzanne Thatcher, Russell’s Garden Center, offers you an opportunity to take home the plants that inspire you. A portion of the day’s proceeds will go to support Mass Hort and future projects in the Bressingham Garden.

    Day Symposium: 12 – 5 p.m. $99 per person (includes box lunch)

    Add Reception: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. $20 per person ($25 per person if not attending symposium)

    Full Symposium and Reception: $119

    Additional information, please call: 617-933-4973

    Proceeds raised from this event will support the Bressingham Garden and future projects. To register online visit www.masshort.org.

  • Thursday, December 12, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Succulent Dish Garden Workshop

    As part of its Festival of Trees Celebration Mass Hort is offering this hands-on workshop on Thursday, December 12, from 7 – 9 at Elm Bank, to create a succulent dish garden to give as a gift or to keep for your own home.

    Your succulent dish garden will be planted in a twelve inch Italian terra cotta container with South African succulents. Art Scarpa has been growing cacti and succulents since he was a boy and is an expert on their care. Art will provide you with all the information you need to care for your garden year round in a fun and informative presentation. Workshop fee includes plants, soil, container, top-dressing, and hand selected decorative stones. All tools will be provided.

    Art Scarpa, known for his expertise in growing succulents and for his love for unusual plants, is certified as a judge by the Cactus and Succulent Society of America and has competed and judged at numerous major shows, including Boston, Newport and Philadelphia and many regional cactus and succulent shows. Art is also a 2013 Mass Hort Gold Medal recipient.

    Workshop Fee: $45 Mass Hort members; $55 non-member.  Register online at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e8d45ipc97363cd1&llr=kzaorjcab.

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  • Wednesday, August 25, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Tree Care in Tough Times

    As the final talk in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Wednesdays in the Garden series, arborist Paul Fletcher will discuss caring for your trees in a time of drought, Asian longhorn beetles and winter moths (see damage below).  His advice should not be missed.  The event takes place Wednesday, August 25 at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, beginning at 6:30 pm.  Refreshments will be served.  $8 for Mass Hort members and $10 for non-members.  Please bring cash or a check.  For directions, log on to www.masshort.org.

  • Monday, March 22, 11:00 am – Going Green: Constructing an Environmentally Engineered Home and Landscape

    The Garden Club of the Back Bay’s March meeting will take place Monday, March 22, at 11:00 am in the 4th floor Seminar Room in Michael VanVolkenberg’s LuLu Wang Campus Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.  Marie Stella will present an illustrated lecture entitled “Going Green: Constructing an Environmentally Engineered Home and Landscape”, co-sponsored with The Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture, the Arnold Arboretum and the New England Wild Flower Society.

    The Renaissance ideal of the harmony of art and technology drives the design of systems for Marie’s new teaching site and landscape laboratory “Beaver Lodge.”  The objectives address environmental awareness, low energy consumption, the promotion of sustainability and innovative uses of plant material.  An ecological approach is outlined in the use of rain gardens, buffer zones, vegetated roof, and green architecture.  She will highlight the integrated process of building an energy efficient, sustainable house and seamlessly blending it into a responsibly managed landscape.  She questions how we can reduce energy consumption, conserve resources and intelligently choose healthy green materials.  Is the art and technology of our own Shangri-La within reach?

    Marie Stella, MA, MS, is a landscape historian and designer with Graduate Certificates in Landscape Design and Landscape Design History from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Her firm, Kirin Farm Design specializes in environmental landscapes and in initiatives to foster the preservation of open space. She lectures frequently and leads local and foreign Garden History Tours. Marie teaches in the graduate program at The Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and currently is an adjunct faculty instructor in landscape design at The New York Botanical Garden, and Tower Hill Botanical Garden. Her ongoing design projects include a 3/4 acre environmental New York City Park, “El Jardin del Paraiso,” a Teaching Herb Garden at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Wellesley, MA (see below), and a master plan study for the new regional headquarters of the American Red Cross, Worcester, MA. She is a Gold Medal winner at the New England Flower Show, and has exhibited at The Urban Center, New York City, and the National Conference of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.

    This lecture is free to Garden Club of the Back Bay members, $15 for members of the New England Wild Flower Society, the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture, and the Arnold Arboretum.  $18 general public admission.  For more information, log on to www.newfs.org.

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