As a follow-up to Chris Kennedy’s ‘Gardening 101’ talk at our April meeting, please come to Kennedy’s Country Gardens on May 31st. Susan Anthony, Perennials Buyer, will lead a tour of the property and departments, make suggestions for plantings for gardens, borders and containers, and answer questions. If there is anything specific you would like [...]

(Following Lunch in Members Homes) Horticulture Competition: For most of us, life is jam-packed. In the 21st century it becomes even more important to take a break at the end of the work day, put aside our digital devices and reconnect with other people and the natural world. This talk explores how we can all [...]

Photography and Design Competition An entertaining talk filled with fun and glamorous ideas. Spice up your wardrobe! Bill Graham will transform a boring little black dress into several chic and stylish outfits for all occasions while creating exquisite and unique floral arrangements. Hostesses: Sandy Durant, Hedy Ablard, Debby Leggat, Stacey Weaver, Jennifer Willms

Evening Program: Atlantica Restaurant Public Invited A representative from Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group based in Washington, D. C, will speak about climate change and its effects on the ocean. The organization helps formulate ocean policy at the federal and state government levels based on peer reviewed science. Ocean Conservancy is one of the [...]

Design, Horticulture and Photography Competition Liz Waring, a certified professional photographer, will take us on a journey through the English countryside. Her slideshow will feature the gardens of Wisley, Great Dixter, Sissinghurst, Stourhead, Hever Castle and Polesden Lacy. Hostesses: Andrea Hillier, Bet Baker, Suzy Doherty, Susan Kearney, Sarah Pease

Hostesses: Anne Vanderweil, Carolyn Horn, Laura McAuliffe, Jane Russell, Carmen Schramm,

Hear about a day in the life of an MFA Senior Associate floral designer. Via an instructive PowerPoint presentation followed by a live floral design demonstration, learn how the MFA Associates and Senior Associates design extraordinarily creative arrangements for the museum on a weekly basis - with varying themes from springtime to holidays to playing [...]

Our very own Sarah Boynton, Anne Elwell Reardon and Ginger King will entertain us with a floral demonstration showing the evolution of flower arranging throughout history. Each designer will create an arrangement or bouquet which will correspond to a design style typical of historical periods of flower design to celebrate Cohasset’s 250th birthday Design, Botanical [...]

For more than 30 years, Monet cultivated his gardens at Giverny, which served as his artistic inspiration.  From water lilies to his Japanese Bridge, paintings from his garden become icons of Impressionism.  We’ll explore the development of Monet’s gardens and the changes taking place in the paintings he created throughout the decades.

Why are we so fascinated with stone walls? Kevin Gardner, author of “The Granite Kiss”, explains how and why New England came to acquire its thousands of miles of stone walls, the ways in which they and other dry stone structures were built, how their styles emerged and changed over time and their significance to [...]