Somerville Garden Club

April 13, 2011
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Garden in the Woods Opens April 15

New England Wild Flower Society’s Garden in the Woods opens its 2011 season April 15.

The theme for the 2011 season is People, Plants, and Pollinators. New interpretive signage explains the importance and role of native plants in New England and develops the horticulture and conservation messages of using native plants in different New England habitats and gardens. The Idea Garden has undergone a face lift with expanded ideas and conservation messaging presented. The Invasive Plant Jail has been moved to this location, providing a stronger location for the message to visitors about the problems arising in New England from the spread of these invaders and what can be done about them. Also, in the Idea Garden, an expanded edible garden and herb garden give visitors a fascinating view of native edible plants and medicinal herbs.
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March 16, 2011
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Meeting – April 13, 7-9pm

A Working Garden

An Sokolovska, whose garden was in the 2010 Somerville Garden Club Garden Tour, will talk about how her garden works to provide water and flood control. She will also discuss water storage, cisterns, French drains, gutters and other water storage and control methods.

In years past An was employed by the US Corps of Engineers as a sociologist assessing the social impacts of many of their projects in
 New England.  This work involved planning for major civil works projects controlling water, such as dams and flooding, and it is to the engineers she worked with that she owes her understanding of 
urban land and flood control.  An also had her own small-scale 
residential design/construction business where she could incorporate 
her knowledge of flood control into her work in residential  
reconstruction.
 
 


An credits a childhood spent outdoors in nature with her love of 
gardening.   As a grown up she finds inspiration in visiting and 
observing gardens and interfaces her indoor construction designs with growing space whenever possible. She believes gardens can solve 
problems of air pollution, security, flood control and more, while
 conferring beauty and peacefulness to a community.

The title of An’s talk is “A Working Garden” – meaning a garden that has a job to do.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings are 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.