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  • Saturday, October 12, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Invasive Plants: What Are They and What Can Be Done?

    The Ecological Landscaping Association will present a free educational event at Cold Spring Park, 1200 Beacon Street in Newton, on Saturday, October 12, from 10 – noon, with Bruce Wenning, a horticulturist at The Country Club, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, where he is responsible for garden management and design, invasive species management, and natural history of the grounds.  Invasive plant species damage the lands and waters that native plants and animals need to survive.  During visits to Cold Spring Park, Bruce discovered that several types of invasive plants are present and spreading along the trails.  Learn how to identify several types of invasive plants and learn what you can do in your own landscape to safely remove them.  Register by calling 617-436-5838, or email ela.info@comcast.net.

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  • Thursday, May 9, 10:30 am – Boston Committee of the GCA Spring Meeting and Luncheon

    The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America invites members of its constituent fourteen clubs to its Spring Meeting and Luncheon on Thursday, May 9, beginning with registration and coffee at 10:30 am at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline. The featured speaker will be John Tschirch, Director of Museum Affairs for the Preservation Society of Newport County, speaking on The Eden of America.

    John Tschirch is an architectural historian specializing the in the artistic and social evolution of historic houses and landscapes. He joined the Preservation Society of Newport County in 1986; in 2010, he became the director of the newly created Department of Museum Affairs, where he oversees curatorial, conservation and academic program functions. Mr. Tschirch has lectured widely on houses and gardens from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. He is the author of the Preservation Society publication Newport Landscapes (2004) and The Evolution of a Beaux Arts Landscape: The Breakers in Newport, RI for the Journal of the New England Garden History Society (Fall 1999) and serves as historic advisor for the Preservation Society’s 11 historic landscapes.

    Newport was referred to as the “Eden of America” by Jedediah Morse in the First Geography of the United States (1789). This illustrated lecture presents landscape paintings by leading American artists and rare photographic views that capture Newport’s distinguished gardens from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Avid patrons, talented gardeners, legendary garden parties and present-day efforts to preserve this remarkable landscape heritage will come alive as historian and raconteur John Tschirch evokes the history he sees— quite literally—thick on the ground.

    The cost of the lecture and luncheon is $60, lecture only $30. Please make your check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Karen Gregg, 238 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,  Massachusetts 02116 before Monday, May 6 and note on the memo portion of your check your Garden Club affiliation. All reservations will be held at the door. Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written invitations and a car pool notice in the mail.

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  • Thursday, November 15, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm – Park and Public Garden Design: Trends for the 21st Century

    The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America invites members and guests to its Fall Lecture and Luncheon on Thursday, November 15, at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline.  The guest speaker will be Don Rakow, who will speak on Park and Public Garden Design: Trends for the 21st Century.  Don Rakow is the E.N. Wilds Director of the Cornell Plantations, including botanical gardens, a 150 acre arboretum and over 4,300 acres of natural areas of Cornell University.  Don also serves as an associate professor in the Department of Horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.  His own research focuses on the history and management of public gardens, and their role in human culture.  Don is the lead author of the textbook Public Garden Management, and is also writing a book on the evolution of European botanical gardens.  $50 lecture and luncheon, $25 lecture only.  If you are a member of a garden club affiliated with The Boston Committee, and have not already responded to your written invitation, send a check made out to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail it to Karen Gregg, 238 Commonwealth Avenue, #5, Boston, MA 02116 by November 10.  All reservations will be held at the door.  If you are not a member but wish to attend, send your check as set forth above, and please note on your check that you have been referred by The Garden Club of the Back Bay.

  • Thursday, April 26, 10:30 am – Boston Committee Spring Meeting and Luncheon – Living on Earth

    The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America invites members of its constituent fourteen clubs to its Spring Meeting and Luncheon on Thursday, April 26, beginning with registration at 10:30 am at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline. The featured speaker will be Steve Curwood.

    In 1970, as a writer for the Boston Phoenix just out of Harvard University, Steve broke the story that Polaroid’s instant photo system was key to apartheid pass system in South Africa. Steve moved on to the Boston Globe as an investigative reporter and columnist and shared the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of the Boston Globe’s education team.  His production credits in public broadcasting include reporter and host for NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered, host of NPR’s World of Opera, producer for the PBS series The Advocates with Mike Dukakis, and creator, host and executive producer of Living on Earth, the prize-winning weekly environmental radio program heard for more than 20 years on public radio stations  and distributed by Public Radio International (PRI) since 2006.

    The cost of the lecture and luncheon is $50, lecture only $25. Please make your check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Jensie Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467 before April 19, 2012, and note on the memo portion of your check your Garden Club affiliation. All reservations will be held at the door. Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written invitations and a car pool notice in the mail.

  • Thursday, November 17, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm – The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America Fall Lecture and Luncheon

    The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America invites its member clubs to the Fall Lecture and Luncheon on Thursday, November 17, featuring Carol R. Johnson, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Carol R. Johnson Associates.  Carol will speak on A Life In The Landscape.  Boston-based landscape architect Carol R. Johnson has spent the last four decades transforming urban spaces, campuses, industrial sites, and neglected waterfronts into vital, celebrated parks and public spaces.  In her lecture she will talk about her life, career, design philosophy, and what it means to be a pioneering woman in the field of landscape architecture.  At the Thursday, November 17 meeting, The Boston Committee will also present the 2011 Boston Bowl to Arabella Dane, past President of the American Horticulture Society and the World Association of Flower Arrangers, as well as a Master Judge for National Garden Clubs and the author of several books on horticulture and butterflies.  The Beautification Award will be presented to Boston University in special recognition of its work planting, paving, and enhancing the Commonwealth Avenue landscape.  Registration will begin at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street, at 10:30 pm, with lecture and luncheon to follow.  $50 for lecture and luncheon, $25 lecture only, with checks made payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mailed to Mrs. William U. Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.  If you are not a member of a Boston Committee club, contact info@bostonflora.com for more information.

  • Thursday, April 14, 10:30 am – Boston Committee Spring Meeting & Luncheon: The Artful Garden

    The Boston Committee of The Garden Club of America invites members of its constituent fourteen clubs to its Spring Meeting and Luncheon on Thursday, April 14, beginning with registration at 10:30 am at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street in Brookline.  The featured speaker will be Sheila Brady, a partner at the renowned landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden and Associates, pioneers of the New American style.  Ms. Brady will talk about the new book The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design by James van Sweden and Tom Christopher.  Whether it’s a ten-foot-square city terrace or a ten-acre expanse, the same principles of design apply.  Ms. Brady will discuss the connection between the path in a garden and the horizon of an iconic painting, the syncopation of jazz and the free form of nature, the intrigue of a good novel, and the mystery of a thoughtfully sculpted landscape.  Copies of the book will be available at the meeting by pre-order, at a cost of $35, with proceeds benefiting The Blossom Fund.  The cost of the lecture and luncheon is $50, lecture only $25.  Please make your check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Diane Cullen, 52 Willow Street, Dover, MA 02030 before April 8, 2011, and note on the memo portion of your check your Garden Club affiliation.  All reservations will be held at the door.  Garden Club of the Back Bay members will receive written invitations and a car pool notice in the mail.

  • Thursday, November 18, 11:00 am – Annual Meeting and Fall Luncheon of The Boston Committee of the GCA

    The Annual Meeting and Fall Luncheon of The Boston Committee of the GCA will take place Thursday, November 18 at The Country Club, 191 Clyde Street, Brookline. Registration will begin at 10:30 am, with the meeting and lecture beginning at 11:00 am, followed by luncheon in the dining room.

    This year’s guest speaker is Dominique Browning. For over a decade, Dominique Browning brought gardening expertise to readers around the country as editor-in-chief of House & Garden magazine. But one Monday morning in 2007, the magazine folded and she was told to pack up her office. She also packed up the house where she had raised two children and had lovingly tended her own garden. After losing the job that defined her and the garden that inspired her, Browning started to cultivate a new garden, beginning a journey of self-discovery and reinvention. Join Browning, author of Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas, and Found Happiness, as she shares how the spirit of a new garden helped her to love the unexpected, unanticipated life.  The book will be available for purchase for $23 by pre-order only, with proceeds benefiting The Blossom Fund.  Lecture and Luncheon: $45, Lecture only: $20.  To register, make checks payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Mrs. William U. Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 no later than November 12.  Reservations will be held at the door.  Please indicate the name of your Garden Club on your check.