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)…
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. …
Framingham Garden Club Presents: “Say it with Flowers”
Award-winning floral designer Thelma Shoneman will create six inspired and expressive designs, explaining the symbolism and meaning of flowers and the messages they send. Her designs will be available as raffle prizes. Before the main event, enjoy light refreshments while you browse carefully curated gifts, baskets and other prizes, including a selection of wine donated by our members. Buy a balloon and find your lucky gift card!
Doors open at 6:15pm for refreshments and raffle shopping, 7:15pm for Thelma’s presentation, followed by raffling of her designs.
April 2021 – date tbd | Tickets $20
Boston Church of Christ, 214 Concord Street, Framingham, MA [Map]
Proceeds support scholarships & community projects.…
FGC was so proud to be represented by Minal Akkad, Nancy Martin, and Pat Towle at “Flora in Winter” at the Worcester Art Museum in February! These two designs are stunning!
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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…
Framingham Garden Club, Inc. Celebrates 85 Years of Community Service
Members of the Framingham Garden Club, Inc. celebrated eighty-five years of carrying out their mission of education, conservation and beautification as they relate to design, horticulture and gardening in our community on December 12, 2018.
Just days before the Framingham Garden Club celebration, members had staged their annual Greens Sale to raise scholarship funds. The sale is five days of intense work and community building. The members were eager to celebrate their hard work, not only of the past, but also of the present as they gathered outside Plymouth Church’s Parish Hall where the event was held.…
Back to Basics #3 – April 15 10:30 am at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 320 Post Road Weston, MA…
Start the month by removing old mulch and any evergreen branches from your perennial beds —but stay out of the beds so you don’t compact the soil. Hold off adding new mulch for a week to allow the soil to warm up. Remove now, by hand, any weeds that wintered over before they get stronger. 
When lawns have dried, remove any debris by raking lawns with a spring-tined rake. Avoid the temptation (and the ads) to apply fertilizer or grass seed. Fertilizing and seeding are best done in the fall when the grass is not competing with annual weeds. New England lawns do well without a spring fertilization, but a thin (1/4 inch) top-dressing with compost will do wonders for it by adding beneficial soil organisms.…
