Framingham

FGC earns blue ribbons at 2025 New England Flower Show

September 22, 2025
Shannon Fitzpatrick
awards, Competitions @ Local & State Levels, Exhibits, Framingham
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Congratulations to Shannon Fitzpatrick for her blue-ribbon Mono-Botanic Design at the New England Fall Flower Show at Elm Bank. A Mono-Botanic Design is one that incorporates three or more parts of a plant of one family of genus. Parts may be stems, blooms, foliage, buds, and/or roots. 

Betsy Szymczak also represented our FGC (and Natick GC), and  we congratulate her for eight Horticulture entries at MassHort that earned four blues, two reds, two yellow, with Begonia grandis for propagation. Shannon also entered the horticulture competition, earning four blues, five reds, one yellow and two honorable mentions.

 

Minal Akkad and Ruth Evans participated in the show as Design judges, while Betsy also judged Horticulture.…

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In Time for Mother’s Day and Spring Planting: FGC’s Plant Sale and Gift Boutique

April 22, 2022
Shannon Fitzpatrick
Club Events, Framingham, Front, member gardens, Plant Info, Plant Sale, Plants at Holiday Times, Summer gardening
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The Framingham Garden Club (FGC) plant sale is back after a two-year hiatus in its 30-year tradition of offering unique native and other locally grown plants to the MetroWest community, at competitive prices. Plus- shop for Mother's Day and other gifts at the Secret Garden boutoque.
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Artifacts in Bloom

March 4, 2019
Shannon Fitzpatrick
Art in Bloom Design Competition, Club Events, Exhibits, Framingham, Special Occasions
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The first week in April brings Framingham’s first “Artifacts in Bloom.” Explore history and design through floral interpretations of some of the History Center’s most significant pieces. Ten artifacts have been chosen from the Center’s collection to be interpreted by our designers.

This special exhibition celebrates Framingham Garden Club’s 85th Birthday in collaboration with the History Center of Framingham. Artifacts were selected from the Civil War, WWI, Women’s Suffrage and Victorian Era.

The exhibit will be held at the Framingham History Center, 3 Oak Street, Framingham, on April 5th, 1:00-5:00 pm and Saturday April 6th 10:00 am-4:00 pm. There will be an Opening Reception on Friday, April 5th from 5:00-7:00 pm.…

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Nobscot Park Memorial Garden

October 24, 2018
Shannon Fitzpatrick
Civic Activities, Club Events, Framingham
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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.…

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Framingham students win garden-themed poetry contest

July 20, 2018
Shannon Fitzpatrick
Competitions @ Local & State Levels, Education, Framingham, Uncategorized
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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."
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Town Library Learning Series 2017

November 24, 2017
Estelle Gooltz
Education, Framingham
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On November 3, The Framingham Public Library invited FGC members Nancy Martin and Marion Goodman to lead a lively flower arranging demonstration as part of the Library’s “Brown Bag Learning Series.”

One Friday a month, the FPL hosts wonderful lunchtime continuing education workshops and entertaining lectures that are open and free to the public. 

Framingham Garden Club members Martin and Goodman’s contribution to this ‘Brown Bag Brain Boost’ was filled with simple tips to make beautiful centerpieces using inexpensive flowers from the supermarket that will be the envy of your family and friends. 

Our participation in the Framingham Public Library’s event series is just one of the ways we love to give back to our friends and neighbors. …

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Nobscot Park Memorial Bench

November 22, 2017
Estelle Gooltz
Civic Activities, Club Events, Framingham
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Framingham Garden Club works to put our skills to use for our home town. Since taking over the design and care for the garden leading into Framingham’s Nobscot Park, we’ve been planning this second phase:

Workmen delivered our raw materials to the Park and helped to assemble this beautiful Memorial Bench that will be a proud feature of the personalized garden and the new town park we lovingly tend to.

The granite slabs are polished and carved to commemorate all of our former deceased members.

 

An official commemoration with news coverage is expected in November of 2017 

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