Bulbs are nature’s little packages all ready to produce a beautiful flower for you. Find out about the history of common and not so common bulbs and how to bring spring and summer beauty to the garden for years to come.

Kathi Gariepy is a former special needs preschool and kindergarten teacher who has been gardening since she was a child. She is a Lifetime Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, volunteering more than 10,000 hours as a past Vice President of the MMGA, past chair of the Master Gardener Advisory Board, and past president of the Attleboro Garden Club. Kathi studied landscape design at Rhode Island School of Design, owns the garden design company Pleasant Vistas, and is a Landscape Design Consultant. Kathi teaches children and adults about the wonders of nature. She has worked as lead teacher for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and education coordinator for Mass Audubon. Kathi lives in an old farmhouse with perennial borders, herb gardens, a vegetable garden, grapes, blueberries, raspberries and some very old, still producing, apple trees. She is the recipient of the MMGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award (the Golden Trowel) and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Silver Medal.  She is currently the chair of the Attleboro Conservation Commission.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. 7-9pm.

Meetings are held the at the Tufts Administration Building, (TAB), 167 Holland Street, second floor, wheelchair accessible. Parking is available for a small fee, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop.

If you are interested in attending virtually, but have not received the meeting link via email, or are not a SGC member, you can email info@somervillegardenclub.org for the link.