Landscape Design School
Members took part in the Landscape Design School on the weekend of October 25-26 in Randolph, MA.…
Nobscot Park Memorial Garden
The memorial garden at Nobscot Park is finished! The park was in full autumn glory as Framingham Garden Club president Nancy Martin dedicated the memorial garden on Thursday, October 25, 2018 in honor of the club’s 85th birthday.
To commemorate our deceased members, FGC created this personalized garden with a Japanese snowbell tree, custom carved granite bench and a granite “We Remember” marker. 
The beautiful Memorial Bench and “We Remember” marker are proud features of the memorial garden at Nobscot Park.
Framingham Garden Club was instrumental in creating Nobscot Park in the mid-1990s. Over 150 years ago, the site was the location of Framingham School House #8, then later Grange Hall and the Scout House, which burned to the ground in 1994.…
Carmel Terrace Senior Class – Fall 2018
Framingham Garden Club members Marilyn Hanley, Nancy Martin and Joan Johnson conducted a floral design workshop at Carmel Terrace on October 19, 2018, sharing the love of this beautiful and therapeutic art with our senior community.
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These Senior Classes are an important piece of the services Framingham Garden Club offers the community. Our members share the joy and enthusiasm of creative expression with our senior neighbors, who look forward to these workshops every year. The next senior workshop at Carmel Terrace will be on November 16, 2018 at 3 pm.
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FGC Members Win Top Honors at 2018 Tower Hill Fall Show
Three Framingham Garden Club members were awarded top honors at the prestigious 2018 Tower Hill show, “An American Icon: The Apple.” From horticulture exhibitions to daring floral designs, this show features the best from members of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts. In keeping with Tower Hill’s historic apple orchard, each design centers on the theme of apples.
Nancy Martin took top awards in Horticulture, winning the Grower’s Choice Award and Horticultural Excellence Award, in addition to a blue (first place) for her potted sedum collection. 
Ruth Evans won blue, the Designer’s Choice Award and the Design Excellence Award in the Design Division for her stunningly innovative low profile design.…
Central North And South District Tower Hill Flower Show
October 12-14 – Central North And South District Tower Hill Flower Show …
Grouped Mass Design Workshop
Some of the many benefits of membership in the Framingham Garden Club are the hands-on floral design workshops presented by the club’s master designers several times a year. In October 2018 we focused on “Grouped Mass Design.” Grouped Mass Design features groups, or clusters, of like flowers or other plant material placed next to groups of different like materials, all emanating from one point of emergence.
Here are two examples designed by FGC’s own experts, Minal Akkad, Ruth Evans and Marion Goodman.
Notice the clusters of plant material placed next to other clusters.
Design tip: place wet Oasis one inch above the top of the container. …
Reaping Our Rewards Horticultural Show
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. …
Fall Horticultural Show: Reaping our Rewards
Members attended Fall Horticultural Show “Reaping our Rewards” September 12, 2018. We brought our choice plants, flowers, and vegetables to exhibit with other club members. 
This is a change to learn from one another about our successes and failures and to share tips and solutions.…
Framingham students win garden-themed poetry contest
Two talented Framingham students, third grader Stella Cote and sixth grader Maureen O’Connell, recently won a statewide Youth Poetry Contest sponsored by the National Garden Club. O’Connell's poem Spring Returns was selected as the winner the New England Regional Poetry Competition in her age group. Her poem was one of 50 youth poets to be published in the National Garden Club’s annual publication "Down the Garden Path."
Read More FMG Member Wins Top Design Award
Congratulations to FGC’s own Minal Akkad for winning the Cindora Goldberg award. The Goldberg award is the top design award in the Commonwealth, given annually by The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts to the most outstanding floral design created by any member of a Massachusetts garden club. Cindora Goldberg was known for her ability to continually see and create in an innovative manner.
Creativity and innovation define Minal’s floral designs. From the three outstanding designs submitted for consideration, federation judges chose the design that was featured at the Museum of Fine Art’s “Art in Bloom” this year. For 40 years, Art in Bloom has paired art from the MFA’s collection with floral interpretations created by New England area garden club.…
Members Gardens – 2016
A selection of some of the Framingham Garden Club’s member gardens in 2016……
