Somerville Garden Club

MassHort is sponsoring a day of lectures on the history of horticulture and landscape design. Go to their website to see the full list of lecture topics. See below for details:

A Horticultural History Tour
Saturday, November 13 2010, 9:00am – 4:00pm

Hunnewell Carriage House
The Gardens at Elm Bank
900 Washington Street
Wellesley , MA

MassHort is proud to announce a day-long series of lectures focused on the history of horticulture and landscape design in New England and beyond.

The symposium will be hosted by John Furlong, FALA, emeritus director, Landscape Institute, Arnold Arboretum, faculty member Boston Architectural College , Distinguished Radcliffe Instructor, recipient, Gold Medal and emeritus trustee, Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

You may register online at www.masshort.org/horticultural-history-tour or call 617-933-4995 to register or for questions.

Favorite Garden Stories and Implements

This meeting is an opportunity for Somerville Garden Club members to share their own knowledge and enthusiasm as they tell about family garden traditions, describe a well-loved plant or project, or even read from a favorite gardening book. Gardeners may also bring a successful garden implement and explain it’s many uses, or reveal an unlikely tool that has made their life easier. The show-and-tell culminates in a prizes for the best garden story and best garden implement. And of course, the raffle that ends each monthly meeting is always part of the fun.

The SGC meets on the second Wednesday of every month from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Tufts Administration Building (TAB), 167 Holland St., second floor. The meetings are open to the public and are wheelchair accessible.