Showcasing our Garden Delights live horticultural show
The club is back to in person meetings, following COVID protocols. Once again our members brought horticultural specimens to highlight the successes from their gardens during the past summer. This year’s show, “Showcasing our Garden Delights,” was held on September 15 at our first meeting of the 2021-22 season.
Gardeners reported prodigious blossoms on their hydrangeas, thanks to an abundance of rain this summer.
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 2021 fall horticultural show. …
Framingham Garden Club celebrates fall with outdoor plants and decor in first “Curating Curb Appeal” tour
Framingham Garden Club Members Present at Flora in Winter 2021
March 1 deadline for state garden club scholarship
2020 Green Sale as seen in the News
Framingham Garden Club’s first online holiday Green Sale is shaping up to be a great success. The Patch and Metrowest Daily News recently covered the sale . Our members have put countless hours into making this happen. Shown are club president Andi Saari and Membership Chair Joan Johnson.
The labor of love continues through December 3. Check back frequently as stock is added.
Native Shrub of the Month
Native to eastern North America, Physocarpus opulifolius (Common Ninebark) or one of its many cultivars is a beautiful, easy way to incorporate native shrubs into your landscaping. A versatile, deciduous flowering shrub, Ninebark is named for its exfoliating bark, which peels in strips to reveal several layers of reddish to light brown inner bark.
There are 8 species of ninebark and numerous cultivars. All feature arching branches and range in size from 3 to 8 feet tall and wide, depending on type. Physocarpus of any variety makes an excellent hedge plant and provides good erosion control.
Its leaves are of many different colors, commonly purple/burgundy and yellow, fit for every color scheme.…
Native Shrub of the Month
Our Native Shrub for April is Clethra anifolia, commonly called summersweet or sweet pepperbush. A wide variety of butterflies and songbirds are attracted to clethra for its nectar and seeds. Native to Eastern United States, it has lustrous green leaves in the spring, spiky white or pink fragrant flowers during the summer, golden yellow leaves in the fall, and interesting, delicate dried seed capsules in winter to provide exceptional four-season interest. Clethra is somewhat unique among flowering shrubs because of its ability to bloom in shady locations in late summer when few other shrubs are in bloom. A good flowering shrub for shade or woodland gardens, foundations or shrub borders, but also will grow in a sunny spot.…
Our Annual Spring Sale and Secret Garden Boutique – May 2021, date tbd
Annuals – Perennials – Native plants
Plus Mother’s Day Gifts and More at the Secret Garden Boutique!
Location: Cushing Maintenance Building, Framingham. Winter Street Entrance to Keefe Tech
Use Winter Street entrance and follow signs and arrows.(Map)…
Spatial Thrust Design Competition Soared
Taught by our master designers Minal Akkad and Ruth Evan in a pre-competition workshop, FGC members stretched their creativity in our Spatial Thrust Design competition. Spatial Thrust is a creative design with a dominate volume of empty space defined by two strong, straight, parallel placements of identical plant or man-made material. The thrust may be vertical, diagonal or horizontal. Many of us learned that our thrust elements were not strong enough and that this type of design calls for minimal use of flowers. …
FGC floral interpretations wow at Framingham’s first Artifacts in Bloom
Framingham’s first Artifacts in Bloom was a crowd-pleasing success. The special exhibition was a collaboration between the Framingham Garden Club and Framingham History Center in honor of FGC’s 85th birthday. Floral designers from FGC interpreted ten artifacts from the History Center’s most significant collections.
Among the stunning designs was Betty Mudway’s ingenious interpretation of the Memorial Tablet, a monument to the Framingham Soldiers who died in the Civil War. Shannon Fitzpatrick captured the essence of Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) Gordon,
For additional artifacts and their floral interpretations, see the gallery below…