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The Greenfield Garden Club
Bringing together gardeners in Franklin County, MA, and beyond. Please join us at our next event - Everyone is welcome!


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Visit the Gardens of Carol Pope
Date:
Tuesday, June 10th
Time: 4:30 pm wine and snacks begin, 5:30 pm garden tour
Location: The home of Carol Pope, 119 High St, Amherst, MA
RSVP: [email protected]
Carpool: recommended as street parking is limited. Contact the club.

Dress for the damp weather and wear sturdy shoes for the stone paths and steps. Only torrential rains will postpone. Her Kousa dogwoods are magnificent today (June 9).

​Bring a folding chair.

From Carol: “This is a garden begun by my late husband and me (both academics with no formal garden training) soon after we moved here in 1978, working and learning together for twenty years. I have been the primary garden designer from the beginning, and designer and gardener for another twenty years, now recently with some wonderful garden help. It is a landscape of many uncommon trees with strikingly beautiful bark and a wide variety of textures, flowers, berries, and great autumn color; many shrubs with more than one season of beauty; perennials flowering in three seasons; ground covers of unusual dramatic effect covering all beds during all seasons; and in winter offering a wide palette of interesting shapes, lovely bark, and many evergreen trees and shrubs. In addition, there are three bridges over a stone-lined swale, a hand-built screened gazebo and curved top arbor, a charming little pond, many benches and Japanese stone lanterns, large-stone walkways and stone walls, and a Japanese inspired fence surrounding all of the 1/2-acre garden.”
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Email the club with any questions: [email protected]
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A hearty welcome to all new GGC members in 2025!


REMINDER: a perk of membership is that every GGC member has access to all Garden Conservancy programming, and a free digital subscription to Better Homes and Gardens. Contact Laura at the club email to purchase tickets at the member rate. Follow them on Instagram and Facebook.
 
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CLUB MEMBERSHIP:

Have you remembered to renew your membership to the club for another year of activities and discounts? Memberships also make a thoughtful gift. The Greenfield Garden Club is always accepting new members. You do not have to live in Greenfield or be an avid gardener to join. Have you attended a meeting recently? Come and bring a friend to the next meeting! Memberships are $20 per person or $25 for a household. Please send your membership check to Club Treasurer Becky George, 91 Smith St #111, Greenfield, MA 01301. You will receive a membership card that you can present at select local businesses for a 10 percent discount. We look forward to seeing you at the next event!

Business partners offering members a discount:

Baystate Perennial Farm, Whately. 10% of regularly-priced plants
Chapley Gardens, Deerfield. 10% off regularly-priced plants and pond supplies
Floral Affairs, Greenfield. 10% off everything.
Greenfield Farmer's Cooperative, Greenfield. 10% off anything garden-related.
LaSalle Florist, Whately. 10% off regularly-priced plants.
Mill River Farm Market, Deerfield. 10% off plants in Spring and Fall.
O'Brien Nurserymen, Granby, CT. 10 % off plants.
Shelburne Farm and Garden, Shelburne. Ask at desk what is included.
Silver Garden Daylilies, Greenfield. 10% off daylilies.
Warm Colors Apiary, S. Deerfield. 10% off honey.
Wilder Hill Gardens, Conway. 10% off plants and consultations.
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​​As always, please email the club with any questions: [email protected] ​

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​2025 Schedule of Monthly Events  Including some events that
​may be of interest to members

Know of an event that should be on our calendar but isn't? Email the club!!​

(Club events are in black; events of interest are in green italics.)
 

January 11, 10-1 - Winter Farmer's Market at Greenfield Public Library

February 5th, 6:00pm - Untermyer Gardens 2025 Winter Lecture: Alhambra: A Moorish Paradise. Explore a Magical and Ethereal World. (In person in NYC on the 5th, but $25  for the recording after February 6th)

February 8 - March 16 "Pixels and Petals" at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill - P
ixels + Petals combines the vibrant world of retro video games with the delicate beauty of orchids in a one-of-a-kind experience. Thousands of living orchids in bloom will be artfully showcased throughout the Garden’s two subtropical conservatories. Rewind, flash back, and immerse yourself in pixelated charm as nostalgia and nature unite.  Special events during the show - check website for details.

February 8, 10-1 - Winter Farmer's Market at Greenfield Public Library


Feb 16 - 2 PM: The Berkshire Botanical Winter Lecture: Jacqueline van der Kloet will share bulb basics, color combinations, seasonal care for bulbs including naturalizing them to become independent, layering bulbs, growing bulbs on a larger scale, and integration for constant blooms in the garden. Lenox, MA (fee)

February 20-23, 2025: 42nd Annual CT Flower & Garden Show at CT Convention Center, Hartford, CT.

​February ?? - March ??: Berkshire Botanical Annual Bulb Show Daily 9-4. (free)

February 23, 12 - 3 pm. GGC Annual Meeting at The Barn at Kringle Candle, Bernardston. Speaker: Wisty Rorabacher.

February 27 - March 2: Flora in Winter at Worcester Art Museum

February 28th - 7-9pm Smith Bulb Show Lecture. In person at Weinstein Auditorium.

March 1-16: Smith College Spring Bulb Show.

March 1-9 Philadelphia Flower Show. The 2025 theme is "Gardens of Tomorrow"

March 1-16: 53rd Annual Spring Flower Show at Mount Holyoke College

March 8, 10-1 
- Winter Farmer's Market at Greenfield Public Library

March 23, 3-5pm - an afternoon at the UMass Seed Library and Special Exhibits with Paulina Borrego.

March 22, 8:45-12 noon. Western MA Master Gardener Symposium. S Deerfield. Branching Out in Your Garden

March 29, 9-1; Western MA Master Gardeners Symposium. Westfield, MA. Let's Get Growing!

March 28-30, 2025
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Capital Region Flower & Garden Expo (formerly the Capital ​District Garden and Flower Show) Troy, NY.

April 5, 8-12:15; Western MA Master Gardener Symposium. Lenox, MA. Spring Into Gardening

April - May: 
Naumkeag annual Daffodil and Bulb Show (Dates for 2025 not announced yet)

April : 12th Annual 
Festival of Flowers, Springfield Museums. (2025 dates not announced yet)

April : 5-8 pm: Festival of Flowers After Hours. $25


April 27 - Baystate African Violet Society Exhibit and Sale at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill

April 17, 5:30pm - Tour and talk with Dan & Bonita Conlon of Warm Colors Apiary

April 29 - 8:00am - 12:30pm. Opening Day for the Greenfield Farmers Market at Court Square. 

May 5 - 9am -5pm. Berkshire Botanical Roy Boutard Day. Start of the 90th Season for Berkshire Botanical Gardens. Free admission

May 6 - Seven States Daffodil Society Show at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.

May 11-12, 9-5 - annual Mother's Day weekend plant sale at Wilder Hill Gardens in Conway, MA


May 12-13, 9:00am - 5:00 pm Berkshire Botanical 46th Annual Plant Sale 

May 12, 10-3 - Lilac Sunday at Arnold Arboretum. Lilac bloom from late April - mid/late May. They have 400 varieties of lilacs. (Picnicking on the grounds permitted today only.)


May 24th, 8:30am - 12:30pm - Extravaganza!
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May 18 - Mass Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society Show and Sale at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.

May 17, 9:00am - 12:30pm - 15th Bee Fest - 2nd Congregational Church, downtown Greenfield

May 17, 10:00am-2:00pm Spring Festival at Just Roots.


June 7 & 14 - The Garden Conservancy Open Garden Days in Franklin, Hampshire and Hamden Counties. Several GGC club members are on this year's calendar! More dates later in the summer.

June 10, 4:30/5:30 - garden tour of Carol Pope's incredible garden in Amherst, MA

June 14, 10 - 4 - The 31st Northampton Garden Tour. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 on the day of the tour.

June 21 - New England Rose Society Show and Sale at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.

July 5 & 6, 2024 - Westminster Cares 21st Anniversary Garden Tour featuring the Gardens of Gordon and Mary Hayward along with 3 other gardens.

July 26, 2024 - New England Daylily Society Show and Sale at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.

July 13 & 14, 2024 - 9 to 4 - Silver Gardens Daylily and Arts Festival. 23 Pickett Lane, Greenfield. Thousands of daylilies to choose from! (dates not confirmed yet for 2024)

July 20 - Sunday visit to Patten Hill Flower Farm in Shelburne, MA
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July 20-21, 2024 - New England Lily Society Show at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.
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July - NOFA Summer Conference 

July 27, 2024 - field trip to St Gaudens National Historic Site, lunch at Harpoon Brewery, visit Path of Life Sculpture Garden (rain date 7/28).

​August - Plan the Fair Booth meeting.  

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September 4-7, 2025 - 176th Franklin County Fair (set-up for the club's booth is 9/2 & 9/3). This year's theme: "A Blue Ribbon Affair"


September GGC event

September 21-22, 2024 - Gesneriad and Begonia Society's Show and Sale at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.
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September 28-29, 2024 - New England Dahlia Society Show and Sale at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.

September 28-29, 2024 - 26th Annual Garlic and Arts Festival in Orange, MA. 

October 5-6, 2024 - New England Carnivorous Plant Society Show and Sale at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.
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November 1-3, 2024 - Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts Show at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill.
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October - Annual Oktoberfest 

October 31 - November 2 - Cider Days! Celebrate all things apple with special events and tastings. 
 

November 28 - Happy Thanksgiving!
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December: Wreath-making

December: Annual Holiday Potluck with optional Yankee Swap


For more information on this month's or any other listed club-sponsored event, please contact the club at: [email protected]


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