Somerville Garden Club

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

Gardening to Attract Native Bees.

Nick Dorian, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Crone Lab at Tufts University, is an ecologist interested in bee biology and conservation; plant-pollinator interactions; and modeling the population dynamics and movement of insects. He will give a presentation on attracting native bees to your garden. Nick also has a passion for gardening and has planted pollinator gardens in Somerville and Medford in part to support urban bees and to raise awareness about their importance. The Somerville Garden Club is aware of the importance of attracting bees and maintains a pollinator garden along the bike path at Highland Road.

Pollinator Garden

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.