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Tag: Norwood Evening Garden Club

  • Wednesday, June 26, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm – FUNdamentals of Floral Design

    Come enjoy learning the basics of floral design at the Plymouth Library, Fehlow Meeting Room (1st floor), 132 South Street, Plymouth, on June 26 from 2:30 – 4:30. Demonstrations by experienced floral designers, who are National Garden Club (NGC) Flower Show Judges. $25 per person (members of Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts clubs, please). Send check with name, address, phone number and Garden Club to Nancy Costa at 130 Knott Avenue, Sandwich, MA 02563

    Questions? Contact Co-Chairs: Nancy Costa, Garden Club of Hyannis, Norwood Evening GC nancycosta71@gmail.com
    Judy Morgan, Wareham Garden Club judjon121@comcast.net

  • Friday, December 10, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – GCFM Holiday Designs for Your Home

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts presents Nancy Costa with Holiday Designs for Your Home on December 10 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 320 Boston Post Road in Weston. $10, which includes a lucky raffle ticket. Register at www.gcfm.org. Nancy will demonstrate two fabulous holiday designs you can do at home.

    Nancy Costa is a National Garden Club Flower Show Judge. She has exhibited at Art in Bloom at the MFA Boston, and Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich. She is a member of The Garden Club of Hyannis and the Norwood Evening Garden Club.

    Contact Margo Yie at margo_yie@verizon.net to confirm availability.

  • Tuesday, January 28, 6:45 pm – Ikebana Demonstration

    Ikebana is the art of Japanese flower arranging. The Norwood Evening Garden Club will host Joanne Caccavale, Ikebana instructor and President of Ikebana International Boston Chapter. The public is invited to attend for a small $5 donation. Refreshments will be served and a drawing for the finished arrangements will be held. The program begtins at 6:45 pm in the Carriage House behind the First Baptist Church, 71 Bond Street in Norwood.

    Caccavale will give a brief history of Ikebana and talk about the different schools, their concepts and styles. She will also demonstrate the basic styles of the Sogetsu School, within which she holds the rank of Komon, its second highest rank.

    Raised in Singapore, Caccavale was educated and trained as an attorney in the US but prefers teaching Ikebana to practicing law. She is a perennial exhibitor in the New England/Boston Flower and Garden Show and was an invited participant in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts ‘Art in Bloom’ event for many years.

  • Tuesday, February 27, 6:45 pm – Frederick Law Olmsted and The Massachusetts Legacy

    On Tuesday, February 27, the Norwood Evening Garden Club will host Alan S. Banks who will discuss Frederic Law Olmsted and The Massachusetts Legacy. The meeting will be held at 6:45 p.m. at the Carriage House behind the First Baptist Church, 71 Bond Street, Norwood. The public is invited to attend for a small donation ($5). Refreshments will be served.

    Founded over a century ago, the Frederick Law Olmsted firm was involved in over 1200 landscape architecture projects throughout Massachusetts, ranging from expansive 500-acre public parks to intimate private gardens. One of its greatest achievements is the six-mile “emerald necklace” of ponds, parks and parkways that winds its way through Boston. Olmsted historian Alan Banks brings this rich landscape legacy alive as he explores the ideas that shaped some of the most treasured lands in Massachusetts.

    Alan Banks is the Supervisory Park Ranger at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline. During the last 16 years, he has developed a variety of landscape walking tours, slide lectures and presentations about the Olmsteds and their work. His programs have been presented to clubs, civic groups, schools, and libraries across Massachusetts. He was a featured speaker at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum as part of their Viewing Olmsted exhibit and was highlighted in the Boston Globe for his walking tours of the Boston Park System. Banks also has served as an Olmsted consultant on various projects including working with Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art on their Art on the Emerald Necklace exhibit and Olmsted’s Landscape Art, a traveling photographic exhibit created in cooperation with the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. He also recently worked with National Geographic Magazine and was lauded for his insightful interpretation of Olmsted’s work in Boston. Legacy Magazine published his article Interpreting Cultural Landscapes: Turning the Inside Out. Working with the National Register of Historic Places he produced Boston’s Arnold Arboretum: A Place for Study and Recreation as part of their Teaching with Historic Places program. It is now available to teachers nationwide to use in their classrooms both in print and via the World Wide Web.

    A member of The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, New England Garden Clubs, and National Garden Clubs, Inc., members of the Norwood Evening Garden Club have been providing education and public beautification in Norwood and its surrounding communities since 1996. The Club, open to novice and expert gardeners, draws its members from Norwood, Walpole, Westwood, Dedham, Medfield, Randolph, and Stoughton. For information about the Norwood Evening Garden Club, contact Barbara at 781-762-1270 or visit www.NorwoodEveningGardenClub.com.

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  • Saturday, May 9 – Three Plant Sales of Note

    Saturday, May 9 will be a good day to shop.  Beginning at 8:30 am and running until 11:00 am, the Marblehead Garden Club will present its 84th Annual Plant Sale at The Gerry 5 VFA, 210 Beacon Street in Marblehead.  From 8:30 – 2:30 you may also visit the Littleton Country Gardeners Plant Sale at the Common at the intersection of Rtes 110 and 119. Items include perennials, annuals, herbs, vegetables, Mother’s Day Gifts, Fairy Gardens, rock garden plants, moon garden plants, plants native to Massachusetts, cemetery arrangements, Ikebana supplies, attracting bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and gift certificates to a local farm stand, Larsen Farms, located on Russell Street in Littleton. All proceeds from the Plant Sale are used for year round plantings at 13 civic sites in Littleton, garden therapy projects for senior citizens, garden related workshops, annual third grade Arbor Day programs (each third grade student gets their own tree), Littleton High School Scholarships, and more. And finally, from 9 – 1, the Norwood Evening Garden Club will hold its Annual Plant Sale at Hawes Pool Park next to the Coakley Middle School. Washington Street in South Norwood.  Details of all three events may be found at http://gcfm.org/Calendar-News/Calendar/tabid/77/sortBy/cf7/currentpage/2/Default.aspx. Image of ‘Hardy Blues’ perennial geranium from www.vernonplants.com.

  • Tuesday, April 28, 6:45 pm – Eve Did Not Apply Roundup: Organic Practices for Home Gardeners

    Trish Wesley Umbrell, former Director of Education and Outreach at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, will speak at a Norwood Evening Garden Club meeting on Tuesday, April 28, beginning at 6:45 at the First Baptist Church Parish House, 71 Bond Street in Norwood.  Her talk is entitled Eve Did Not Apply Roundup: Organic Practices for Home Gardeners.  $5 donation requested, public is welcome.  For more information visit www.norwoodeveninggardenclub.org.  Image from www.strangehistory.net.

  • Tuesday, January 27, 6:45 pm – Water Features & Fountains

    The Norwood Evening Garden Club presents a Panel Discussion about Water Features and Fountains on Tuesday, January 27, beginning at 6:45 pm at the First Baptist Church Parish House, 71 Bond Street in Norwood.  $5 donation – public is encouraged to attend.  For more information contact Nancy Costa at 781-248-4038 or visit http://www.norwoodeveninggardenclub.org. Image from www.bonicklandscaping.com.

  • Tuesday, October 30, 6:45 pm – Soil Health: From the Bottom Up

    The Norwood Evening Garden Club will host Tom Akin, Conservation Agronomist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, tomorrow, October 30, at the Carriage House of the First Baptist Church, 71 Bond Street, Norwood.

    Mr. Akin will discuss the characteristics of healthy soil, its importance in gardening and how to improve your soil’s health. He will also cover how to interpret soil test results, how to optimize plant nutrition and plant health, organic matter in the soil and why you should sell your rototiller.  The public is invited to attend. A $5.00 donation is requested and includes refreshments. For more information call 781-769-3854.

    Tom Akin has been the Conservation Agronomist and Grazing Lands Coordinator with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Amherst, MA since 2003. He is passionate about the environment, soil health, composting and helping farmers and gardeners improve their soil’s health. Prior to working for NRCS, Tom was assistant superintendent and internship coordinator at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. He has also worked as an Extension educator with the University of Massachusetts and for the Peace Corps in the Central African Republic.

  • Tuesday, May 29, 6:45 pm – Containing Your Garden

    The Norwood Evening Garden Club will host master gardener, local designer and garden writer Donna Lane, on Tuesday, May 29, beginning at 6:45 pm at the Parish House behind First Baptist Church, 71 Bond Street in Norwood.. Ms. Lane, owner of Lane Interiors & Gardens in Norwood, and a member of the Norwood Evening Garden Club and numerous other horticultural organizations, will present a live demonstration on container gardening. If you attended her former lectures, you will not see the same program!

    Not only will Ms. Lane show how to assemble containers, but she will also show very different combinations of plants including vegetables, annuals, perennials and shrubs. She will discuss color, texture, mass, form and scale, trends in container gardening, the best soil and amendments for containers, and how to maintain your containers for a full season of beauty. All of her creations will be raffled at the end of the evening. The public is invited to attend. A $5 donation is requested. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call 781-769-3854.  Image from www.containergardening.about.com.

  • Saturday, March 31, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, and Sunday, April 1, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Norwood Evening Garden Club’s Art in Bloom

    Norwood High School art students will once again join the Norwood Evening Garden Club to present Art in Bloom 2012. This is the eighth annual event where club members create floral displays to interpret the work done by students in Drawing and Painting III and 2D Digital Design III classes.

    The historic George H. Morse House at 1285 Washington Street in South Norwood will host this year’s Art in Bloom on Saturday, March 31 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 1, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. The public is invited. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

     

    For information about the Norwood Evening Garden Club, contact Susan Pearson at 508-668-4039 or visit www.NorwoodEveningGardenClub.com. For more information about Art in Bloom, call Julie Stenson at 781-344-5650.