Hopkinton Garden Club

The Hopkinton Garden Club continues its Online Speaker Series with the presentation “Container Gardening” with Jeffrey Doherty on Tuesday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. Container gardening is the practice of growing plants in containers such as pots, planters, window boxes and hanging baskets, instead of planting them in the ground. The plants may […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s April presentation will be “Say It with Flowers ... Springtime,” a video program hosted by floral designer Thelma Shoneman and featuring five floral designs of varying design types. Forced spring flowering branches are used in most designs, and a variety of techniques and leaf manipulations are demonstrated. Flower meanings add to […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club's Online Speaker Series presents “Welcome Yule!” with Betsy Williams on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. Participants will learn how to decorate their home for the sparkling month of December with fresh greens and fragrant herbs combined with fruits and […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Online Speaker Series presents “Gardens of the Scottish Highlands” with Jana Milbacher, the principal of Enchanted Gardens, a lecturer and garden writer. Participants will enjoy an armchair tour of 15 very different gardens in Scotland — from castle and historic estate properties in the Highlands to botanic gardens and intimate private […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Online Speaker Series presents “Garden Design for a Changing Climate” with Christine Darnell. The principal of Christine Darnell Gardens in Lyme, Connecticut, Darnell will share her specialty of plant combinations that are rich in form and texture and discuss ways to make smart choices in planting design with regard to water, […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Online Speaker Series presents “Healthy Lawns and Lawn Alternatives” with Gretel Anspach, a trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a lifetime master gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, and a recently retired systems engineer for Raytheon. The presentation will be held on Tuesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom. […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Speaker Series presents “Garden Design — A Deeper Dive” with Joanne Pearson, a professional photographer and former registered landscape architect. Pearson will discuss garden design, illustrated by showcase gardens in Europe and across the United States, and demonstrate how attendees can come up with a concept plan for their own yard. […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Speaker Series continues on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. with a presentation from Gretel Anspach on pruning basics. Attendees will learn about the science behind when, how and why to prune woody plants, and be able to determine which plants can be pruned by a home gardener and which require […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Speaker Series presents “The Garden Tourist's Hudson River Valley” with Jana Milbocker on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. on Zoom. Milbocker is the principal of Enchanted Gardens, a lecturer and a garden writer. She has a passion for landscape design and horticulture and has been gardening on her 2-acre property […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Speaker Series presents a double session on Tuesday, Feb. 21, on Zoom. From 7-7:30 p.m., Ed Harrow will discuss the battle against knotweed and other invasives in Hopkinton. From 7:30-8:30, Robert Gegear will present "A citizen scientist's guide to native pollination system conservation (and why it matters)." This event, supported in […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Speaker Series presents “Your Beautiful Earth-Friendly Garden” on Tuesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts (upstairs room) as well as on Zoom. In this introduction to sustainable gardening, Rebecca Warner, author of "The Sustainable-Enough Garden," explains how home gardeners can put our environmental principles into […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club’s Speaker Series presents “Avian Ecology” on Tuesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts (upstairs room) as well as on Zoom. Erik Sechler, the ecological programs coordinator at the Native Plant Trust in Framingham, will present on Massachusetts birds, including conservation trends and monitoring efforts as […]

Character re-enactor Jessa Piaia will present a dramatic portrayal of Isabella Stewart Gardner in “A Visit with Isabella Stewart Gardner: America’s First Patroness of the Arts” at the Hopkinton Public Library on Tuesday, April 2, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. This program is sponsored by the Hopkinton Garden Club as part of its 100th anniversary celebration and […]

The Hopkinton Garden Club will host a Horticulture Specialty Flower Show at the Hopkinton Senior Center on Friday, June 7, from 1-4 p.m., and Saturday, June 8, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit hopkintongardenclub.org.