SOMERVILLE GARDEN CLUB - Meeting and Plant Sale

elramsay — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:53:10 GMT

Your local Garden Club has two events this week!

Wednesday – September 14th

Our Favorite Garden Tools and Tales

This roundtable-style meeting features Somerville Garden Club members telling their favorite garden stories and sharing their favorite gardening implements for a summer show-and-tell that is always enlightening and enjoyable. All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. 7-9pm. Meetings are usually held the second Wednesday of each month at the Tufts Administration Building, (TAB), 167 Holland Street, second floor, wheelchair accessible. Parking is available, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop.

Saturday, September 17th
Somerville Garden Club Fall Plant Sale!

9am-1pm - rain or shine!
Statue Park, right in the center of Davis Square.

There will be hundreds of locally grown plants for sale. Garden Club members supply the plants from their gardens and greenhouses. Get great plants for your dorm, home or yard and help support the Garden Club.

Choose from hundreds of plants donated by both Somerville Garden Club members and community friends of the Club. Visit the Connoisseur Table for that unique specimen or find a tried-and-true favorite.

* House plants

* Herbs

* Horticultural books, decorative containers, garden tools

* Sun & shade garden perennials

* Trees, shrubs, and groundcovers

This year we will also have field-grown hostas from Fox Hollow Farm in Huntington, NY.

Experienced gardeners will be available to answer questions and assist with plant selections. And the littlest gardeners will enjoy the Children’s Table.

Proceeds benefit the educational programs and public plantings of the all-volunteer, non-profit Somerville Garden Club. For additional information visit www.somervillegardenclub.org.

Somerville Garden Club May Meeting: Urban Gardening!

elramsay — Tue, 10 May 2016 13:53:06 GMT

This week's Garden Club lecture should be of interest to Somervillians with tiny yards...

Gretel Anspach, a Lifetime Master Gardener and frequent speaker, will give a talk about urban gardening on Wednesday, May 11.

Gretel Anspach, member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Board of Trustees, will give a talk about urban gardening. She will cover alternatives to the standard sources for light, water, and nutrients that plants need for people who don’t have much space, or perhaps no yards at all. Her talk will also touch on container gardening and hydroponics.

Gretel Anspach is a Lifetime Master Gardener, the education coordinator for the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association (MMGA), a Trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and a recently-retired systems engineer. She has served as the President and as the Certification Coordinator for the MMGA. She is a frequent speaker for the MMGA Speakers' Bureau and Mass Hort. Gretel helped to establish and maintain two food production gardens that have provided fresh produce to the Marlboro Food Pantry for the last six years.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public.
7pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Tufts Administration Building, (TAB), 167 Holland Street, second floor, wheelchair accessible.
Parking is available, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop.

Eleanor Ramsay

SOMERVILLE GARDEN CLUB - Meeting and Plant Sale

Somerville Garden Club May Meeting: Urban Gardening!