2023-2024 Past 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