Somerville Garden Club

“Everyone loves their garden in the spring, but what if you started spending more time out there every season?” Jen Kettell, a local gardening educator, landscaper and designer, will give a presentation on winter pruning. Late winter is a great time to get out there and shape up your garden. Jen is a certified arborist and horticulturist. For more than a decade, she worked as a staff horticulturist at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum. She now shares her passion for horticulture providing training to both homeowners and green industry professionals through her consulting firm, Radiant Leaf.

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.

Echinacea in the Fall Rain, Photo by Jen Kettell

Part II of Gardens from Around the World.

Garden Club members love to travel. And when we travel, we like to visit parks, gardens, farms — anywhere where things are grown. November’s meeting will feature more intriguing gardens as club members share their travels and research with slide presentations of gardens they have visited. Rosemary Broome-Bingham will share famous gardens she visited in Ireland this summer, and Mary Kocol will talk about world renowned gardens she visited in France.

There will also be our usual plant roundtable and raffle. 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.

Help Tackle that Swallow-wort! The monarch butterflies will thank you!

Black Swallow-wort Pod Patrol