Meetings & Events

2024 - 2025 Calendar



UPCOMING MEETINGS: 

Unless otherwise noted, meetings are open to the public and are held at 7pm. For February and March, our meetings will take place at Marlborough Public Library, Grice Community Room, 35 W. Main Street, Marlborough, MA.  See below for more details.


Join us to learn about welcoming native plants and insects to your garden, choosing beautiful plants to attract beneficial insects and pollinators, the truth about native plants, the good citizens and the thugs, leaf-eating insects, why the right balance helps your garden, and garden maintenance tricks to make your yard hospitable to the right insects. Presenter: Rebecca Warner is a home gardener with extensive experience in sustainable ornamental gardening. Her book The Sustainable-Enough Garden is the story of her quest to make a beautiful environmentally friendly garden.

Learn to create your own small but productive cutting garden, so you can make and share beautiful flower arrangements all summer long. This program provides guidance on easy and reliable plants to grow (annuals and perennials), soil preparation, maintenance, harvesting, flower conditioning, end-of-season breakdown and more. This session also includes a demonstration of a spiral hand-tied bouquet, which will go home with one lucky attendee! Presenter: Mary Beth Hayes is an avid gardener and floral designer. She has studied with the Cass School of Floral Design, Mass Horticultural Society, and has exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum Flora in Winter, Boston Flower Show, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, and Stevens Coolidge Place.

8:30am – 10:30am  at Whitcomb Middle School, 25 Union Street, Marlborough

Have you always wanted to create lush container gardens that would be the envy of the neighborhood but didn’t know where to start? This talk will show you how to take your container gardens from “blah” to “aaah”.  We’ll start with the basics, including appropriate containers, soil mixes, and plant choices for different site conditions, then proceed to new and unusual plant material and uncommon, even “green”, container choices. Presenter: Award-winning container garden designer Deborah Trickett has worked in the gardening industry for over 30 years and is the owner of The Captured Garden. By combining unusual plant material and creative design ideas she creates gardens and containers that are truly one of a kind.

Club meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month between September and June (excluding January).  No meetings are held in July or August.  Except for the December and June dinners, which are for members only, all meetings are open to the public.  

Educational presentations usually run from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., followed by a business meeting.  Most programs are free, but any which require paid admission or a workshop materials fee will be advertised accordingly.  The meeting location for our February and March meetings is Marlborough Public Library, Grice Community Room, 35 W. Main Street, Marlborough. Any change in meeting location will be posted on our website, Facebook page, and all published press releases.