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2023-2024 AGC General Meeting Program
Please note: Coffee and refreshments will be served at 10:00am, unless noted otherwise in the particular meeting description, with the general meeting to follow.
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When:
Unless noted otherwise, AGC General Meetings are held:
The first Tuesday of the month at 10:00, October through May.
10:00am: coffee, light refreshments and fellowship
10:30am: Andover Garden Club business
Programs begin promptly at the conclusion of AGC business
12:00pm: Meeting Ends
Where:
Unless noted otherwise, AGC General meetings are at:
South Church Fellowship Hall, Central St., Andover, MA, unless otherwise noted. (Click MAP).
Entrance to Fellowship Hall is on the right side of the church, toward the rear of the building.
*Note - Meetings will be cancelled when Andover schools are closed or delayed due to inclement weather.
2023-2024 CLUB GENERAL MEETINGS
October 3, 2023
The Stuff of Dreams, Old Frog Pond Farm
Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, MA. Is a Certified organic orchards since 2006. Linda Hoffman’s active farm with pick your own raspberries, and apples. They host of annual outdoor sculpture garden exhibits and poetry event center. Linda’s growing philosophy can be summed up as Feed the Soil, Heal the Earth.
November 7, 2023
Evening Meeting: 6:30 PM
Lisa Oberholzer-Gee NYC Floral Designer with European and Asian Techniques
Lisa Oberholzer-Gee enjoys inspiring others to think beyond your everyday bouquet, expanding floral art using non traditional vessels, and adding mixed media elements. She will present a few arrangements to be auctioned off after the presentation, so plan to buy raffle tickets.
December 5, 2023
Seasonal Workshop
WREATHS FOR YOU AND FOR THE BIRDS. We will gather to create our own holiday wreath or arrangement. Join us for the fun of decorating with fellow club members. Please bring from home ornaments, ribbons, fruit, nuts and design pieces to add to the basic greens which the club will provide. If you have interesting greens to bring and wish to share that is always welcome too. Due to space limitations in the hall, it is requested that NO Guests be invited to this meeting. Signup at the November meeting, or directly with Judy Wright. Members will contribute $14 for each wreath to cover the basic cost of materials and additional floral items.
January 9, 2024
Indestructible Houseplants
Tovah Martin, an avid (verging on obsessed) gardener indoors and outside, Tovah Martin is the author of The Garden in Every Sense and Season which received GardenComm’s Gold Medal Media Award in 2019. That book follows several titles on houseplants including The Indestructible Houseplant, The Unexpected Houseplant, and The New Terrarium. She is an accredited Organic Land Care Professional through NOFA and an honorary member of the Garden Club of America. She speaks throughout the country and has lectured aboard the QE2 – during one of its roughest transatlantic crossings, somehow managing to stay vertical while speaking. She serves as a houseplant coach, helping clients make their homes greener places. THIS WILL BE A HYBRID ZOOM MEETING. Club members (and guests) may attend in the South Church meeting room; club members will also have the option of joining the event from home via Zoom. Zoom Meeting details to be announced.
February 6, 2024
Andover Pollinator Pathway
Our environmental committee will share a slideshow updating us on their progress over past 18 months of Andover Pollinator Pathway. The slides will include local APP gardens and ways AGC members can become involved.
March 5, 2024
GARDENTOPIA Designing Outdoor Spaces, Jan Johnsen
Trained in landscape architecture and horticulture, Jan has worked in Japan, Hawaii, and Kenya. She is an inspiring speaker and loves to show how you can use design and layout to create serene outdoor spaces. Jan taught at Columbia Univ. and teaches at the New York Botanical Garden where she was named “Instructor of the Year”. Her best-selling book, Gardentopia. THIS WILL BE A HYBRID ZOOM MEETING. Club members (and guests) may attend in the South Church meeting room; club members will also have the option of joining the event from home via Zoom. Zoom Meeting details to be announced.
April 2, 2024
Six Simple Steps to Successful Rose Gardening
Every gardener who wants to successfully grow roses will enjoy hearing Mike and Angelina Chute, co-owners of RoseSolutions, take the mystery out of rose gardening. Plenty of tips and personal anecdotes from over twenty years of rose gardening experience that demonstrate how easy it is to grow great roses.
Their books; Rose Gardening Season by Season: A Journal for Passionate Gardeners and Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening will be available.
May 7, 2024
Nests, Judith Sumner
Judith Sumner is a professor and botanist who specializes in ethnobotany, flowering plants, plant adaptations, and garden history. She is an award-winning author of The Natural History of Medicinal Plants (2000), and American Household Botany (2004) An inspiring speaker
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October 4, 2022
Healthy Lawns and Alternatives by Betty Sanders
This Lifetime Master Gardener and former GCFM president will teach us how to economically reduce and care for a lawn with minimal environmental impact. Lower maintenance alternatives to our lawns will be discussed.
Speaker Time: 11am
November 1, 2022
Helios Artful Design by Keelia Otten
Keelia runs a boutique floral design studio in Salem, MA. and will present six arrangements to be auctioned off after the presentation. Each of Keelia’s designs are uniquely inspired by seasonality, intricacies in color, and the movements of a landscape.
Speaker Time: 7pm
December 6, 2022
Holiday Swag Workshop
We will gather to create our own holiday swags. Join us for the fun of decorating with fellow club members. Please bring from home ornaments, ribbons, fruit, nuts and design pieces to add to the basic greens which the club will provide. If you have interesting greens to bring and wish to share that is always welcome too. Due to space limitations in the hall, it is requested that NO Guests be invited to this meeting.
Program Time: 11am
January 3, 2023
Winter Gardens by Jana Milbocker
Jana Milbocker is the principal of Enchanted Gardens, a lecturer and author. Her richly illustrated lecture provides inspiration and tips on designing your garden for winter interest, choosing the best trees, shrubs and perennials, and grouping them to create arresting vignettes.
Speaker Time: 11am
http://www.enchantedgardensdesign.com/
February 7, 2023
Falling Water Landscape by Paul McKay
This presentation provides a photographic tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and explores its seamless integration with the surrounding Bear Run landscape.
Speaker Time: 11am
March 7, 2023
Garden Design - A Deeper Dive by Joanne Pearson
This photographer and landscape architect will explore and dissect garden design and the hardscape and softscape elements that make a design shine.
Speaker Time: 7pm
Location: Memorial Hall Library
April 4, 2023
Hydrangeas and Hertiage Museum and Gardens by Mal Condone
The Curator of Hydrangeas at Sandwich’s Heritage Museums and Gardens will discuss Hydrangea care and introduce new cultivars for 2023.
Speaker Time: 11am
Location: South Church (Fall Back Library)
https://heritagemuseumsandgardens.org/gardens/garden-care/about-hydrangeas/
May 2, 2023
Regenerative Edible Landscapes by Ben Barkan
The founder of Home Harvest will discuss soil health, permaculture and edible garden design.
Speaker Time: 11am
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