Somerville Garden Club

‘Winter Decorating with Fresh Evergreens and Dried Flowers’ is the topic that Somerville Garden Club members Carol Dempkowski, Judy Eisenberg, and Melissa Fox will present. They will demonstrate how to make holly wreaths, fresh evergreen swags, and decorative arrangements using dried flowers, branches and seed pods.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings are usually held the second Wednesday of each month 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.

Botany for Gardeners

Judith Sumner, a botanist and frequent lecturer for botanical and horticultural organizations, and instructor at the college level, and at botanic gardens including the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University and Garden in the Woods, will be giving a talk called ‘Botany for Gardeners’. Her talk is aimed at gardeners who want to understand more about how plants grow. Judith will also cover fertilizers, symbiotic relationships in the soil, and specific adaptations in garden plants.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings are usually held the second Wednesday of each month 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.