Somerville Garden Club

Mary Person, a longtime SGC member with a lifelong fascination with plants and gardens, will give a presentation of highlights of a walking trip along the coast of Northern Ireland. The focus will be wildflowers she spotted along the way, but will include some other sights as well.  Mary Person was one of the founding members of the SGC in 1994. She began gardening in her family’s huge vegetable garden as a child, and has a lifelong fascination with plants and gardens.

If time permits following Mary’s talk, the SGC Program Committee will lead a Round Table Q&A to answer attendee’s garden questions.

This meeting will occur online. Club Members, please check your email for login information.

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Be on the look out! Now is the time to pull out the Black Swallow-wort (or pinch off the pods) where you can find it.
More information about this unwanted invasive plant.

Urban Gardening involves growing food and ornamentals in small spaces. Whether you have a huge yard without the time or desire to tend it all, or an apartment with no outdoor space, this talk presented by Gretel Anspach will give you tips and techniques to start and maintain a garden you can call your own.  In this survey Gretel will cover considering alternatives to the standard sources for light, water and nutrients that plants need, for people who don’t have much space, or perhaps no yards at all.  It touches on container gardening and hydroponics.  

Gretel Anspach is a Trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a Lifetime Master Gardener, education coordinator for the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association and a retired systems engineer for Raytheon. Gretel helped to establish and maintain two food production gardens that have provided fresh produce to the Marlboro Food Pantry for the last nine years.