Springfield Garden Club
Springfield, Massachusetts
"Rooted in the Past and Still Growing"
The Springfield Garden Club was organized in 1917,
federated in 1928 and celebrated its CENTENNIAL in 2017-2018
This is us....
The Springfield Garden Club strives to:
create interest in the art of gardening
stimulate the promotion of civic beauty through horticulture and conservation
encourage the appreciation of the visual art of designing with plant material
Our Affiliations
We are proud member of:
National Garden Clubs, Inc. www.gardenclub.org
New England Garden Clubs, Inc. https://newenglandgc.org/
Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. www.gcfm.org/districtclub
Tower Hill Botanic Garden www.towerhillbg.org
Happenings and Highlights
Special Zoom Program
Wednesday, 10/25/23
The Unexpected Houseplant
Presented by Tovah Martin
Tovah joined us via zoom from her beautiful hame in Connecticut. With her book of the same title as a starting point this horticulturist, photographer, author and lecturer encouraged us to "dust off our houseplants and update their image." She was gracious enough to stay with us after her presentation to answer all of our questions with her warm and witty style. You can follow her on Facebook at Plantswise by Tovah Martin.
October Meeting
Friday, 10/20/23
PROGRAM: Bringing Home the Beauty: Native Plants in Our Gardens
Director of The Native Plant Trust since March of 2019, Uli Lorimer joined us at Forest Park. He has advocated tirelessly for the use of native plants in public and private gardens. His staff of 25 and more than 700 volunteers work throughout New England to monitor and protect rare and endangered plants and collect and preserve native seeds to ensure plant diversity. With his Northeast Native Plant Primer as a starting point, he will showed us how we can bring the beauty of native plants into our own gardens.
See our Events Page for More Information
September Meeting
Thursday, 9/21/23
PROGRAM: Rain Gardens, Why They Are Important and How To Make One That Works.
Rachel Lindsay explained why rain gardens are an effective, nature-based “Green Infrastructure” solution to prevent larger environmental problems caused by run off from our streets, roofs, driveways, and patios. Rachel is Head of Landscape Design at the Regenerative Design Group. If you'd like to learn more, please visit their website.
This GCFM award-winning video of member photos of beloved trees was created in celebration of the
150th anniversary of Arbor Day
Created by Bob Pellin,
member Springfield Garden Club
Scholar's Art Project
2021 Scholarship recipient Aaron Richmond-Crosset shares with us his creative art project and what it may represent.
See more photos and Aaron's detailed description on our Scholarship page (click here)
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