2018 Calendar
Guests are welcome to join us at most meetings for a $10 guest fee.
Tuesday, February 13
6:30PM, Newburyport Senior/Community Center
Xeriscaping, Benjamin Crouch
Benjamin Crouch, an expert on the conservation of water through creative landscaping, will speak to us about the fundamentals of this important topic. Who doesn’t want to save time and money while creating a beautiful landscape with smart design? Learn how to think like
nature and conserve our natural resources!
Tuesday, March 13
6:30PM, Newburyport Senior/Community Center
Books in Bloom Preview Party
Gain inspiration for your own Books in Bloom submission. A nationally recognized flower arranger, member Carole Gura will share her tips, inspiration and vast knowledge as she creates one-of-a-kind masterpieces. She is one of our past Presidents, past member and flower show judge of the National Federation of Garden Clubs as well as 1994 Flower Arranger of the Year! She has extensive experience designing for the Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex and Sandwich Museums, Historical Society of Old Newbury, Boston Flower Show and, of course, our own Books in Bloom. Two of her beautiful creations will be raffled!
Saturday, April 7
6:30-9 PM, Newburyport Public Library
Books in Bloom
Gather friends and family to help support our annual fundraising event in collaboration with the Friends of the Newburyport Public Library. Together with local businesses, our members, and many talented designers, this springtime celebration is always a popular evening out. It promises to be filled with imaginative arrangements, interesting book choices, raffles, silent
auction items, music, delicious morsels and thirst quenchers – tickets are $25.
6:30-9 PM, Newburyport Public Library
Books in Bloom
Gather friends and family to help support our annual fundraising event in collaboration with the Friends of the Newburyport Public Library. Together with local businesses, our members, and many talented designers, this springtime celebration is always a popular evening out. It promises to be filled with imaginative arrangements, interesting book choices, raffles, silent
auction items, music, delicious morsels and thirst quenchers – tickets are $25.
Tuesday, April 17
6:30PM, Newburyport Senior/Community Center
Your House, Your Garden, Gordon Hayward
A combined meeting with the West Newbury, Newbury, and Newburyport Garden Clubs.
With over seventy articles published in Horticulture Magazine and eleven books written on garden design, Gordon travels from Vermont to appear before this unique gathering of inspired area gardeners. Come hear his ideas to help you create a coherent landscape plan that seamlessly links your house and garden or any other structures in your yard.
6:30PM, Newburyport Senior/Community Center
Your House, Your Garden, Gordon Hayward
A combined meeting with the West Newbury, Newbury, and Newburyport Garden Clubs.
With over seventy articles published in Horticulture Magazine and eleven books written on garden design, Gordon travels from Vermont to appear before this unique gathering of inspired area gardeners. Come hear his ideas to help you create a coherent landscape plan that seamlessly links your house and garden or any other structures in your yard.
Tuesday, May 8
6:30PM, Parker River National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center
Long Lasting Gardeners: An Ergonomic Approach, Susan Guest
Susan Guest is an avid gardener, movement educator and fitness coach. With some simple landscape modifications, ergonomic tools and easy exercise techniques, you can retain strength and stability, improve fitness, and avoid injuries while gardening. The Parker River Wildlife Refuge Visitor Services Manager, Matt Poole, welcomes us into their enjoyable refuge center – if you haven’t visited it yet, this is just another reason to attend.
Thursday, May 17, 2018
8:45AM
Field Trip to Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge
This National Historic Landmark is one of the most beautiful and remarkable landscapes in America. Founded by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1831, it has been maintained with the highest regard for horticultural excellence. With its impressive collection of over 5,000
trees and thousands of shrubs and herbaceous plants included in the lush landscapes, it will be worth the trip! Our tour leader will customize our Horticultural Highlights tour based on seasonal interest. MEMBERS ONLY
8:45AM
Field Trip to Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge
This National Historic Landmark is one of the most beautiful and remarkable landscapes in America. Founded by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1831, it has been maintained with the highest regard for horticultural excellence. With its impressive collection of over 5,000
trees and thousands of shrubs and herbaceous plants included in the lush landscapes, it will be worth the trip! Our tour leader will customize our Horticultural Highlights tour based on seasonal interest. MEMBERS ONLY
Tuesday, June 12
5PM
Members Garden Tour
We will be visiting three of our own member’s gardens. At our last stop we will enjoy refreshments which attending members will provide. MEMBERS ONLY
5PM
Members Garden Tour
We will be visiting three of our own member’s gardens. At our last stop we will enjoy refreshments which attending members will provide. MEMBERS ONLY
Thursday, August 16
9:45 AM
Field Trip to ifarm LLC in Boxford, MA
ifarm’s mission is to help connect our community to the natural world. This Federal era farmstead has been restored to include a 19 acre permaculture farm. Permaculture and organic gardening will be discussed as well as a tour given of their hoop house, gardens, medicinal herb drying/processing facilities and barn. Solar powered, it is framed by the natural beauty of Towne Pond and the 1,000 acre Boxford State Forest.
MEMBERS ONLY
9:45 AM
Field Trip to ifarm LLC in Boxford, MA
ifarm’s mission is to help connect our community to the natural world. This Federal era farmstead has been restored to include a 19 acre permaculture farm. Permaculture and organic gardening will be discussed as well as a tour given of their hoop house, gardens, medicinal herb drying/processing facilities and barn. Solar powered, it is framed by the natural beauty of Towne Pond and the 1,000 acre Boxford State Forest.
MEMBERS ONLY
Tuesday, September 11
6:00 PM
Harvest Dinner
Members will gather together for a potluck dinner and an enjoyable evening with friends. Please bring a food item to share.
MEMBERS ONLY
6:00 PM
Harvest Dinner
Members will gather together for a potluck dinner and an enjoyable evening with friends. Please bring a food item to share.
MEMBERS ONLY
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Tuesday, October 9
6:30PM, Location TBA ANNUAL MEETING Confessions of a Seed Snatcher, Marie Patrice Marie Patrice is an enthusiastic gardener and nature lover who will present a humorous and insightful journey of discovery into the world of seed saving – from seed biology and politics to seed quirkiness and adaptability. She promises to share her entertaining stories of finding seeds in most unusual places! |
Tuesday, November 13
6:30PM, Location TBA
Winter Boxes and Other Containers, Deborah Trickett
Winter approaches but this doesn’t mean your window boxes or containers need to spend the next four months filled with skeletons of long-dead plants. Deborah Trickett, of The Captured Garden, is all about keeping container gardens appealing in all seasons. She will share creative
ideas to carry them through the holidays and right into spring.
6:30PM, Location TBA
Winter Boxes and Other Containers, Deborah Trickett
Winter approaches but this doesn’t mean your window boxes or containers need to spend the next four months filled with skeletons of long-dead plants. Deborah Trickett, of The Captured Garden, is all about keeping container gardens appealing in all seasons. She will share creative
ideas to carry them through the holidays and right into spring.
Tuesday, December 11, 2016
6:30PM, Location TBA
Gardening Is Murder!, Neal Sanders
Mystery author Neal Sanders presents “a husbands point of view” of gardening. It is filled with humor and insight from someone who gardens less from an abiding love of horticulture than for love of a spouse. Good advice is dispensed and bad debunked! Neal and his wife, Betty, have had their property showcased in the Garden Conservancy’s “Open Days” program and also featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several mystery novels – including “The Garden Club Gang."
6:30PM, Location TBA
Gardening Is Murder!, Neal Sanders
Mystery author Neal Sanders presents “a husbands point of view” of gardening. It is filled with humor and insight from someone who gardens less from an abiding love of horticulture than for love of a spouse. Good advice is dispensed and bad debunked! Neal and his wife, Betty, have had their property showcased in the Garden Conservancy’s “Open Days” program and also featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several mystery novels – including “The Garden Club Gang."
