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  • Friday, September 1 – Submission Deadline, NEGC Photography Show “Rejoice in the Sun”

    Entries are now open for the NEW ENGLAND GARDEN CLUB PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW. Deadline is September 1, and finalists’ images will be displayed at the New England Garden Clubs, Inc. Regional Meeting on Tuesday – Wednesday, October 10 – 11, at the 1620 Hotel, 180 Water Street in Plymouth. The photo show schedule link is HERE.

    To enter the photo show, click on the jot form link which will take you to the registration form. The show will be jury judged. Each photographer maintains all rights to his/her images, and grants to NEGC, Inc. the right to use these images in conformance with the mission and purposes of the National Garden Clubs, Inc.

  • Thursday, April 13 – Saturday, April 15 – National Garden Clubs Gardening School, Course 1, Series 12, on Zoom

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts announces the upcoming National Garden Clubs Gardening School Course 1, Series 12, on Zoom April 13 – 15. Full course with exam is $110, full course, no exam, $100, full course for non-club members $125. Deadline for registration April 1. There will be lectures by Dr. Judith Sumner, Professor of Natural Sciences, Assumption College, Kathi Gariepy, Massachusetts Master Gardener, educator, garden writer, and lecturer, and Joann Vieira, former head of horticulture at Tower Hill Botanic Gardens and current head of horticulture for Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations. For more information and to register visit https://www.gcfm.org/gardening-study-school or email lindajean.smith@comcast.net Topics will include Basic Botany, Soils, Techniques for Growing Outdoor Flowers, and Plant Propagation.

  • Tuesday, April 12 – Thursday, April 14 – The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Flower Show School Course II: Growing, Staging, Exhibiting and Judging

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts will conduct a Flower Show School Course II: Growing, Staging, Exhibiting, and Judging, on April 12 – 14, featuring one of our own members, Kaye Vosburgh, along with Cathy Felton, as instructors. The event will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton at 11 Beaver Street in Milford, Massachusetts.

    Kaye Vosburgh has a B.S. in Biology and a Masters in the Art of Teaching. She is an NGC Master Judge and a Design and Procedure Instructor. Kaye has chaired several award winning Standard Flower Shows and won numerous awards in the New England Spring Flower Show. She is a member of 3 garden clubs, including the one she started with her Master Gardener co-workers. Kaye is a Sogetsu Ikebana Instructor of the highest rank, Riji. She has demonstrated throughout the Central Atlantic Region, at CFAA in Florida and in Ecuador. Kaye’s favorite activity is sharing creative moments with other designers and students.

    ​Cathy Felton has a B.S. in Zoology and has studied at the former Landscape Institute of Harvard University, but a love of horticulture led her into the garden club world which now includes lecturing and teaching. She is a Garden Club of America Horticulture Judge; American Daffodil Society Judge; and Chairman of the American Daffodil Society Judging School; and a Master American Hosta Society Judge. Cathy has served on the National Garden Clubs, Inc. (NGC), national board as Horticulture Chairman and Vice Chairman of Gardening Study Schools. She is also an NGC Master Flower Show Judge and Horticulture Instructor for flower show schools, and a member of both the Hamilton-Wenham Garden Club and the the North Shore Garden Club in MA.

    To register, contact Ruth Gorman at Ruth.Gorman3@gmail.com.

  • Thursday, November 4, 10:00 am – Flower Shows 101

    Thursday, November 4, 10:00 am – Flower Shows 101

    The Garden Club of the Back Bay will host its November meeting at The College Club of the Back Bay, 44 Commonwealth Avenue, at 10 am on November 4. Masks and proof of vaccination will be required. Kaye Vosburgh, longtime Garden Club of the Back Bay member and award-winning floral designer and teacher, will present an overview of flower shows – how to enter, skill levels, flower show schools, and where to learn more. Kaye is an Accredited Master Judge in the National Garden Clubs, Inc,, and the former District Director of Flower Show Schools. Kaye was named Designer of the Month for October 2021 by National Garden Clubs and you can see her designs on their Facebook page. Garden Club members will receive email notice of the program with instructions for advance registration, which is required due to capacity limitations for social distancing at the Club. Please rsvp by October 25 to Jackie Blombach by clicking here.  Please indicate whether you plan to stay for coffee after Kaye’s lecture. If you are not a member of The Garden Club of the Back Bay, and are interested in this program, please email info@bostonflora.com Coffee and tea will be served after the program to allow members who don’t feel comfortable socializing indoors to leave.

  • 2017 National Garden Clubs Vision of Beauty Calendar

    The National Garden Clubs has published its 2017 Vision of Beauty calendar. This flower arrangement and engagement calendar includes full page color designs, in one standard size of 5 1/2″ by 8 1/2″. Price for one calendar is $6.75, including shipping.  To order, visit http://www.shopgardenclub.org/shop/item.aspx?itemid=320

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  • National Garden Clubs Million Pollinator Garden Challenge

    Because of its renowned reputation, and the strength of its membership, National Garden Clubs has been invited to be an Inaugural Network Partner of the National Pollinator Garden Network, recently formed to help establish one million gardens to assist in restoring critical pollinator population recovery in the United States. Over the next two years, The Network will bring together the science and garden capabilities of industry with the outreach of nongovernmental organizations to empower a million private citizens and organizations to plant pollinator gardens nationwide.

    Federal agencies have been directed to take steps to protect and restore pollinator populations due to recent declines in the number and distribution of pollinating insects causing significant concern among ecologists and agricultural interests. These declines include our managed bee population used in agricultural, native bees, monarch butterflies (suffering a decline of more than 90% over the past two decades), and many others. In addition to being important to natural ecosystems across our country, pollinators are critical to one third of our food production. While there may be many reasons for pollinator decline, experts agree that the overall loss in the amount and distribution of habitat and food plants is a critical contributor.

    This is an unprecedented collaboration and members will be providing food and habitat for pollinators in our home gardens (can even be a container on a deck or a condo window planter), as well as through public garden projects, youth garden projects, nursing homes, botanical gardens, business areas, and government offices. Monetary awards will be available for member clubs, and the National Garden Clubs plan to coordinate grants to clubs that will plant pollinator gardens with our youth. It is SO important to teach our youth how to take care of our land, our wildlife, our food supply for the future. Who will teach them if we don’t?

    Register your pollinator habitat! Visit http://millionpollinatorgardens.org/ to buzz over to the Pollinator Partnership Website where you can create an account, register your pollinator site and see an interactive map of sites that have been registered. The registry is located at http://pollinator.org/mpgcmap/. It’s free and easy. Explore other pollinator friendly SHARE landscapes all over the globe. Be a part of the movement now.

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  • Monday, November 5, 12:00 noon – Creating Holiday Arrangements

    The Rockport Garden Club will present Mary Huntoon, a design instructor with the National Garden Clubs, Inc., on Monday, November 5 beginning at 12 noon at the Community House on Broadway in Rockport.  Mary will demonstrate holiday arrangements.  The event is free.  Read about the Rockport Garden Club at www.rockportgardenclub.org.

  • Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm – Environmental Studies School 2012

    The National Garden Clubs, Inc. and the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts announce the Environmental Studies School 2012, to be held October 27 – 28 at Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, in the Parkman Room.  The topic will be The Living Earth, Course I, Series IV.  The ESS mission is to teach environmental literacy, and to cherish, protect and conserve the living earth.  Environmental literacy is a learning process concerned with the interrelationship within and between the various components of the natural and human-made world producing growth in the individual and leading to responsible stewardship of the earth.  Instructors are professionals who hold a degree in environmental studies, or are actively participating in the teaching of environmental subjects.  They may hold academic rank at an accredited university, be a graduate student, or be employed by a recognized nature center, conservation organization, or state department of natural resources.

    Environmental Study Schools are open to all, garden club members and non-members alike.  To become an Environmental Consultant accredited by NGC,Inc., you must complete all four courses and pass an exam following each course.  To register, please mail a completed registration form and your check payable to GCFM, Inc. to Mary Nokes, ESS School Registrar, 35 Woodpark Circle, Lexington, MA 02421.  A brochure and study guide will follow.  For more information contact Bonnie Rosenthall at brosenthall@yahoo.com.

    REGISTRATION FORM

    ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SCHOOL – OCTOBER 27 AND 28, 2012

    NAME:

    ADDRESS:

    TELEPHONE & EMAIL:

    GARDEN CLUB (IF APPLICABLE):

    GARDEN CLUB MEMBER FULL COURSE   ___ ($125)

    REFRESHER ___ ($100)

    ONE DAY ONLY ___ ($75)

    NON-MEMBER FULL COURSE ___ ($150)

    EXAM: ___ ($5)

    BOX LUNCH SATURDAY (CHOICES AVAILABLE) ___ ($15)

    BOX LUNCH SUNDAY (CHOICES AVAILABLE) ___ ($15)

    TOTAL ENCLOSED ___________

    NO REFUNDS OR CANCELLATIONS AFTER OCTOBER 15, 2012

     

  • Friday, May 25 – Saturday, May 26 – Relevance: National Plant Societies in the 21st Century

    Leadership from every major national plant society has been invited to a summit meeting in Shreveport on May 25-26. The meeting is hosted by the American Rose Society and is intended to gather leaders from similar plant organizations in order to share common challenges and solutions. The theme of the meeting is “Relevance: National Plant Societies in the 21st Century.”

    Both the American Camellia Society and the American Horticultural Society are taking major roles in the meeting through planning and participation. We expect members of the National Garden Clubs, American Orchid Society, American Dahlia Society, American Daylily (Hemerocallis) Society, and others to join us. ARS Executive Director Jeff Ware states, “I hope this meeting proves to be so valuable to our participants that it becomes an annual event hosted at the headquarters of various national groups on a rotating basis.”

    The event begins with a Get Acquainted Reception sponsored and hosted by the American Horticultural Society on Friday evening, May 25, at 7:00 p.m. at the Gardens of the American Rose Center. The Summit itself will take place on Saturday, May 26, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at Klima Rose Hall: The American Rose Society Education and Visitor Center. This meeting will provide opportunities for everyone to share ideas and best practices around 3 major topics: membership, volunteerism, technology and social media. Harry Rissetto, Chairman of the Board for the American Horticultural Society, will present the keynote address on Saturday, “Social Capital – Challenges for Plant and Flower Clubs and Societies.” A luncheon will be provided.

    There is no fee to attend the National Plant Society Summit. However we ask that you RSVP to Jeff Ware, execdirector@ars-hq.org. We hope to make this meeting financially accessible for all groups, both large and small. The event is held at Courtyard Marriott at the Shreveport Airport. Call the hotel directly at 318-686-0102 for reservations. Ask for the American Rose Society Center rate of $84.

  • Tuesday, March 6, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – A Visit with Isabella Stewart Gardner

    A few years ago, The Garden Club of the Back Bay welcomed acclaimed performer Jessa Piaia, who took attendees back to 1910 with her dramatic portrayal of Isabella Stewart Gardner, America’s first patroness of the arts, and lover of plant material.  For those who missed the meeting, you’ll have another chance on Tuesday, March 6, from 10 – noon at South Church, 41 Central Street in Andover.  The Andover Garden Club is sponsoring the program, and a $5 guest charge includes refreshments. Piaia studied performance at London’s Oval House Theatre and graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. An employee of Harvard University, she conducts most of her historical research at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe Institute, which specializes in the history of women in America.

    Founded in 1927, the Andover Garden Club is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that encourages the study and practice of horticulture, landscape design, and floral design; aids in the beautification of the town of Andover; and helps protect and conserve natural resources. A member of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc., and National Garden Clubs, Inc., the club provides both financial and hands-on support to a variety of municipal, educational, and environmental organizations throughout the region.  To reserve, please call 978-475-7119.