Somerville Garden Club

Garden as Ecosystem

Kristina Niovi Jones, Director of the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and a faculty member in Biological and Environmental Studies at the College, will present “Garden as Ecosystem”.

How can you create an ecosystem in your own garden, be it large or small? By combining plants into “guilds” – diverse assemblages of plants growing in healthy, self-sufficient ecosystems. Kristina Jones will explore the functions and interrelationships of organisms in natural plant communities and how they can be applied to our gardens.

Dr. Jones holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California.

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.

Bonsai Basics

Informed by his longtime interest in growing bonsai, SGC member Chris Little will focus on choosing and caring for tropical bonsai species that can be kept indoors year-round. Additionally, he will touch on pot and tray selection, drainage, and soil mix, as well as methods of wiring plants to shape. Chris’s theme of approachable bonsai will emphasis the idea that a person need not to be an expert to create excellent bonsai specimens.

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.