The Lenox Garden Club presents a GCA Flower Show at Ventfort Hall, Museum of the Gilded Age, 104 Walker Street in Lenox. The show will be open to the public from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Thursday and Friday, September 15 and 16. For more information, contact Mary Ellen O’Brien at maryellenobrien@hotmail.com, or check the Lenox Garden Club’s website, www.lenoxgardenclub.net.
From the Boston Society of Architects Lecture Series: December 16, 6:00 pm at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, Rabb Lecture Hall, hear Patti Moreno speak on Urban Sustainable Living. Through websites, videos, workshops and unlimited energy, this Roxbury mother, businesswoman and self-proclaimed “Garden Girl†shares her passion for urban garden ing and her message of urban sustainable living. Patti has created a true urban farm in the middle of Roxbury with extensive gardens and several kinds of livestock. Her website, www.gardengirltv.com, has been recommended on this site previously. Hear Patti in person – admission free.
Celebrate the coming of fall on Saturday, October 10, from 10 – 3, at the Native Earth Teaching Farm Popcorn Festival. Lots to taste, explore and experience – and lots of popcorn for all. There will by wool dyeing of the farm’s hand spun wool with flowers, goat walking, taste testings, a quest, and hands-on demos. Sponsored in part by the Martha’s Vineyard Cultural Council, all are welcome to this free event, taking place at the Native Earth Teaching Farm, 94 North Road, Chilmark. For more information, call 508-645-3304, email contact-us@mvol.com, or check the website, www.nativeearthteachingfarm.org.
This autumn, the Charles River Conservancy will be planting bulbs along the banks of the Charles in Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown. For the next month, every dollar you give will purchase one bulb that will help to brighten our Parklands next spring.
If you’re unable to donate funds for the bulbs, help plant them! Volunteer events will take place throughout October and November until the ground freezes.
You can donate securely via their website, www.TheCharles.org. Please specify BULB PLANTING in the “Comments†box. If you prefer, you can also mail a donation to: Charles River Conservancy, 4 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
For questions, or to volunteer for a bulb planting event, please contact the Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator John Broderick at jrb@thecharles.org or 617.300.8173.
Kate Pokorny is a talented young artist living in New York who is, coincidentally, the daughter of Garden Club of the Back Bay Past President Margaret Pokorny. Kate’s latest project can be followed on her new website, www.yurtalert.com. In her own words:
“As a longtime felter I didn’t have the space to make the soapy mess required for the process after I moved to New York City in 2006. I experimented with needle felting and came upon crochet, which, to me, seemed like something you could make anything out of. This was further reinforced when I watched Margaret Wertheim’s TED Talk and saw how crochet can be used to represent hyperbolic space and coral reefs. I became very interested in oversized knit and crochet work by artists like Kwangho Lee, Claudy Jongstra, and Christien Meindertsma.
I started crocheting a lot, and was making many small domes when I realized that the same form could be made much larger into a crocheted yurt. Historically, Mongolian nomads made felt for their yurts via a labor intensive process that still required an internal structure at the end of the day. My project is to take that design a step further and make a locally-sourced (local to New Hampshire), self-supporting crocheted yurt out of hand-felted cording approximately 1.5 – 2 inches thick.”
You can follow the process on line, leave comments and suggestions, and we can all place bets on when Amy Adams will buy the film rights.
Learn about planting and growing kitchen gardens from the Pilgrims to the present, and find out what past generations relied on to nourish and cure them. We will talk about heirloom varieties, their culture, and how to plant and harvest herbs and vegetables for the rest of the season. Admission is $35, and reservations are required. The event will take place at the Lyman Estate Greenhouses in Waltham, Massachusetts, and is run by Historic New England. For further information, contact Susanna Crampton, 185 Lyman Street, Waltham, MA 02452, 781-891-4882, scrampton@historicnewengland.org. You can get directions to the Lyman Estate on Historic New England’s website, www.HistoricNewEngland.org.
The Hancock New Hampshire Woman’s Club will sponsor a Historic Home and Summer Garden Tour on Saturday July 18, 2009. Six distinctive homes and 5 additional gardens will be showcased. View 200 year-old homes and an adaptation of a mid 1800’s New England connected farmhouse. Luscious gardens on the tour vary from formal to off-the-grid. Birders will be interested in visiting the gardens of renowned birders, Don & Lillian Stokes. Don & Lillian will be available to discuss birds and their spectacular gardens.Tickets are $20 each or two for $30 if purchased in advance. $25 at the door. Tickets may be purchased on the Club’s website, www.hancockwomansclub.com. You may also call 603-525-4970, or 603-547-7391.
A garden tour with artistic flair! Stroll through nine gorgeous gardens (six are seaside gardens) and watch as well-known artists render the beautiful scenes in various media. The paintings will be for sale. The gardens are located in and around the charming coastal town of Blue Hill, Maine.
Tickets ($20) available day of tour or advance tickets can be ordered by email:Â juanitablu@yahoo.com.
