Monday, April 9, 2018Brae Burn Country Club326 Fuller StreetWest Newton, Massachusetts 02465 Marta McDowell Marta teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden Consultant for private clients and public gardens Author: All the President’s Gardens Winner of a 2017 American Horticultural Society Book Award (Limited number of books will be available for […]
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Events of the Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America
Fall 2017 Membership Meeting and Luncheon
Dr. David Barnett President and CEO, Mount Auburn Cemetery Friday, October 27, 2017The Country Club191 Clyde StreetBrookline, Massachusetts Dr. David Barnett will be our featured speaker. Dr. Barnett was presented the Distinguished Service Medal from the Garden Club of America in May of 2016. In its press release announcing Dr. Bennett’s 2016 honor, the Garden […]
Spring 2017 Membership Meeting and Luncheon
Marion Pressley, FASLA Principal at Pressley Associates Landscape Architects, Boston Marion led us on a presentation of the history of the Muddy River Project and where it stands today. Marion’s portfolio of notable projects include award-winning park designs, historic landscape preservation planning projects, and the implementation of treatment work on a wide spectrum of landscapes […]
Spring 2017 Windermere Community Garden Dedication
April 22, 2017 The Boston Committee was very pleased to attend a groundbreaking for the Windermere Community Garden that is part of the revitalization on the Fairmont Indigo line corridor. The Boston Committee awarded the Trustees $25,000 as seed money that provided the impetus to raise the necessary funding. Pictured, top: Denise Trapani of the […]