Every year Framingham Garden Club hosts an autumn horticultural show to highlight the successes from our gardens during the past summer. This year’s show, “Reaping Our Rewards,” was held on September 12, 2018 at our first meeting of the 2018-19 season.
Gardeners reported a challenging growing season, with extreme heat, humidity and rain. Blue macrophylla hydrangeas in particular suffered from severely cold temperatures this past winter that froze and killed the old wood. Since old fashioned hydrangea macrophylla blooms only on old wood, the hydrangeas simply did not bloom. Other hydrangea varieties, however, produced prodigious blossoms. 
The show features cut specimens of annuals, perennials, roses, bulbs/tubers, foliage,edibles, and herbs.
These are some of the items on display from the 2018 fall horticultural show.
