Somerville Garden Club

Attracting Butterflies and Hummingbirds, Growing Vegetables in Small Spaces, and Dealing with Climate Change.

Meteorologist and horticultural expert, David Epstein will be speak. David has been a horticulturalist and meteorologist for over 25 years. He writes for The Boston Globe, The Press Herald in Portland, Maine, and for WBUR. He is the founder of Growing Wisdom a business that produces educational and marketing videos for the green industry. David currently is a professor at Framingham State College, owner of a landscape design business, Bloomscapes Inc., and the author of Gardens of New England.

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, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop.

Growing Wisdom

Design with Vines!

There is nothing like a vine to add height, scale and drama to any gardening space. Cheryl Monroe, a self-taught gardener for 20 plus years, now a Master Gardener specializing in and garden design, will give a talk on designing with vines. She will cover creative uses for a variety of ornamental vines, both annual and perennial, and will discuss using vines as structural elements, ground covers, and as a second season of interest in shrub borders. Learn about about which vines to avoid, and how to follow the golden rule: “Right vine, right place.”

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, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop.

Clematis grows on a trellis