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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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Grouped Mass Design Workshop

October 10, 2018

Shannon Fitzpatrick

Club Events, Design Workshops, Education, Fall Season, Garden Tips

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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. …