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Tag: Wednesday Evenings at Elm Bank

  • Wednesday, June 1, 7:00 pm – Gardening in Raised Beds with Sally Muspratt

    Sally Muspratt will be the featured speaker at Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Wednesday Evenings at Elm Bank in Wellesley, Massachusetts on Wednesday, June 1, beginning at 7 pm, in the Education Building.  One of Mass Hort’s most popular lecturers, Sally is a landscape designer with an eye for both the novel and the practical.  In this talk entitled Gardening in Raised Beds, she’ll show that raised beds – a standard practice for vegetable gardening – is also a great idea for annuals, perennials, and even shrubs.  Her programs are always lushly illustrated and you’ll leave with dozens of great ideas.  The cost to Mass Hort members is $10 per talk, or $50 for the series of ten.  The charge to non-members is $15 per talk.  Refreshments and beverages are served at all talks, and reservations are not required.

     

     

     

  • Wednesday, July 28, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Hostas

    On July 28, former New England Hosta Society President Mary Arnberg will bring a long time of love for hostas (and a lot of samples) to Elm Bank to discuss what makes hostas such a terrific plant for the home gardener, as part of MassHort’s Wednesday Evenings at Elm Bank series. There are more than 4,000 named varieties of hosta and Mary will present examples of hosta lovers’ favorites, as well as other varieties to appeal to gardeners with either sun or shade conditions.

    Sessions begin at 6:30 and go until 8 p.m. or until the last question has been answered. All sessions are held at Elm Bank, either in the Hunnewell carriage house or the Education Building. MassHort members pay $8 per session. The cost for non-members is $10. Refreshments are offered.  For more information log on to www.masshort.org.

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  • Wednesday, July 21, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Healthy Lawns, and Alternatives

    On July 21, Betty Sanders talks on ‘Healthy Lawns – and Alternatives’, as part of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s “Wednesday Evenings at Elm Bank” series.  Betty is a well-respected gardening lecturer to groups around the region and the author of the Leaflet’s monthly ‘Horticultural Hints’ column. She believes that homeowners are caught in a web of conflicting and frequently overstated claims about the virtues of ‘four-step’ processes and ‘organic lawns’. As a chemist and Master Gardener, she’s well positioned to sort out hype from truth. She’ll describe how homeowners can have healthy lawns with a minimum of chemicals, and how a smaller lawn can be a better lawn.

    Sessions begin at 6:30 and go until 8 p.m. or until the last question has been answered. All sessions are held at Elm Bank, either in the Hunnewell carriage house or the Education Building. MassHort members pay $8 per session. The cost for non-members is $10. Refreshments will be available.  For more information, log on to www.masshort.org.

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  • Wednesday, July 14, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Plant Shopping in the Summer and Fall

    MassHort’s ‘Wednesday Evenings at Elm Bank’ series of programs for the home gardener returns on July 14 with first-rate presentations by experts in the field.

    “We think of it as a garden club without borders,” says Gretel Anspach, MassHort trustee and chair of the Horticulture, Education and Outreach Committee that sponsors the event. “It’s all the best stuff you join a garden club for, without ever having to listen to someone read the minutes.”  (NOTE: The Garden Club of the Back Bay mails out the minutes, and our meetings are truly enjoyable without a lot of parliamentary fuss, but we know what Gretel means.)

    The series kicks off July 14 when Weston Nurseries’ Brian Karlsson-Barnes offers down-to-earth advice about plant shopping in the summer and fall. There are four more months of great gardening and planting weather. Prices come down and although plants always look best early in a season (especially herbaceous perennials), if well-maintained at a nursery or garden center, and planted right later in the season, the plants will look great the following year. Brian will detail what to look for at a nursery/garden center and how to tell a merely good plant from a terrific one.

    Sessions begin at 6:30 and go until 8 p.m. or until the last question has been answered. All sessions are held at Elm Bank, either in the Hunnewell carriage house or the Education Building.  MassHort members pay $8 per session. The cost for non-members is $10. Refreshments are offered.  For more information log on to www.masshort.org.

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