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Art in Bloom
April 10, 2025

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Neary and Trottier Middle School student artists, their families and Southborough neighbors all enjoyed seeing the kid's art and the floral interpretations inspired by the art and created by members of the Southborough Gardeners.

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Student artist Michael Provencal poses with Southborough Gardeners members Jan and Joyce who

created a lovely floral arrangement inspired by his painting.

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This poster explained the concept of Art in Bloom.  Art created by students at Southborough's Neary and Trottier middle schools has been interpreted in flowers by members of the Southborough Gardeners.

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Thank You to Everyone
who made this event a huge success:

Student artists and their teachers,

Librarians & Library Director,

Southborough Cultural Council,

Massachusetts Cultural Council and Southborough Gardeners members.

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Floral Designer

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Floral Designer

Michele Landes

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Artists

Ishaan Gupta, Tucker Connelly

and Devin Zhang

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Floral Designer

Jane Davis

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Artists

Emily Murphy and
Bryanna Chang

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Floral Designer

Mary Caldwell

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Artists

Kinsley Jesus, Clare Sullivan

and Lucia Earls

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Floral Designer

Karen Mutalik

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Artists

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Floral Designer

Michele Landes

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Artist

Jewel Hao

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Floral Designers

Betsy Crowley and Judy Quinlan

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Artists

Julian Benoit, Stella Guimaraes,
Lynx Mercadante, Mary Moorehead, Ava Capell, Anika Bhagwat and several classmates

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Floral Designer

Betty Meyer

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Artists

Amaya Shah, Elly Carlson, and

Kailin Tan

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Floral Designer

Michele Landes

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Artist

Ashley Paik

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Floral Designer

Caroline Rossen

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Artists

Parker Gray, Logan Joyal

and Jacob Kallukalam

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Floral Designers

Cathy Neidich and Carol vanBerkel

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Artist

Alexis Zetes

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Floral Designers

Anne-Marie Larche and

Marie Lescalleet

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Artist

Ruslana Matyeeva

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Floral Designer

Debbie Corrigan

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Artists

Chloe Monsato, Nolan Barry and Julia Guimaraes

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Floral Designer

Sandra Peters

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Artist

Myra Tyagi

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Floral Designer

Michele Landes

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Artist

Samantha Lee

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Floral Designer

Michele Landes

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Artist

Annabelle Brand

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Floral Designer

Louise Turner

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Artists

Alexandra Baltas and Anna Su

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Floral Designer

Susan Conti and Danielle O'Connell

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Artist

Michael Provencal

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Floral Designer

Jan DeWolf and Joyce Macknauskas

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Artists

Elizabeth Thomas

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Floral Designer

Marilyn Stivers

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Artists

Alexandra Baltas and Anna Su

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Floral Designer

Susan Conti and Danielle O'Connell

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Artist

Abhaya Visik

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Floral Designer

Diane Lindon

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Floral Designer

Michele Landes

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Jan and Caroline admire the flower choices at the Spring Bulb Workshop at The Potting Bar at Weston Nurseries.

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Veda, Mary, Susan and Carol

and other members admire their Spring Bulb creations.

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One of our members created this lovely planter and will get to enjoy it at home all Spring!

Cathy and Mary enjoy some of

the comfortable seats while many of the members, and almost all attended, sat in the folding chairs.

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Cathy and Mary enjoy some of

the comfortable seats while many of the members, and almost all attended, sat in the folding chairs.

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Some of the Southborough Gardeners earliest active members along with two of today's active members.

Some of the Southborough Gardeners earliest active members along with two of today's active members.

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Danielle, Judy and Susan encourage all members to be as active and involved as they continue to be.

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One of three gorgeous Christmas tress that help to create the

festive mood for our annual

Holiday Brunch.

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Michelle introduced a game where teams of members competed to correctly answer questions about the origin and history of the Southborough Gardeners.

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Michelle, a past Gardeners president and always a very active member, has graciously agreed to serve as president again in the coming year.  She encouraged everyone to take a turn in a leadership role.

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Red Bow with Jingle Bells

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14" mixed green wreath with a red and gold bow, pine cones and sleigh bells to add a jingle to your door!

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Red Plaid Bow with Berries

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14" balsam wreath with a festive red plaid bow, and a variety of greens, pine cones and berries.  Our perennial favorit

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Sliver Bells with Colorful Ornaments

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14" balsam wreath with cedar greens, colorful globe ornaments and a sliver glittery bow to add sparkle to your door!

All wreath styles are sold out for 2024.

Please visit again in November 2025 !

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This first arrangement created

by Lorraine Walsh features the contrasts of light and dark as

well as the angles and colors of

the trees in the inspiration painting.

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Mary Jo's freestyle arrangement

uses angled branches to represent the trees in the inspiration painting.  The Christmas pink roses and carnations bring the winter

holidays to mind.

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Mary Jo Asher begins work on her first interpretation of our inspiration painting.  See the completed arrangement on the left in the

row above.

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Lorraine Walsh and Mary Jo Asher of Artistry Floral demonstrate how the inspiration painting informs

their choices flowers and greens, containers, colors, textures and

their completed designs.

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This beautiful painting titled "Chestnut Oak and Mountain Laurel" created by member Phyllis Bezanson was chosen to be the inspiration for the demonstration arrangements designed at

November Guest Day. 

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Lorraine Walsh created this

freestyle arrangement of orchids

and mums with Colombian influences inspired by the bowl

she is using.

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Lorraine explained that this arrangement is designed to be placed on a coffee table where those admiring it will look down on the orchids and mums.

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This lovely arrangement with

pine cones and flowers in winter hues was Mary Jo Asher's first interpretation of the

inspiration painting.

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Southborough Girl Scouts volunteered along with our club members to plant spring bulbs around the gardens at the Southborough Library.

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Every month a member volunteers

to creates a fresh seasonal arrangement for the Southborough Library.  Cathy Neidich designed this one for October.

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Nancy, Lucy, Sue, Paula, Cathy

and Veda (who took the photo)

were part of the team manning

the Gardeners booth at Southborough's annual

Hertiage Day!

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Thelma Shoneman, our October presenter, demonstrated Ikebana,

a Japanese style of flower  arranging.  Members then had

the opportunity to recreate one of the three arrangements

Thelma created.

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Paula Schwartz, one of our

members enjoys creating an

Ikebana arrangement of her own.

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Member Judy Quinlan, poses

with her completed Ikebana arrangement.

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Several times each year we cut flowers and greens in our own

yards and get together for

"Flowers for Friends".

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Sue, who organizes "Flowers for Friends", adds a logo card to

each arrangement and boxes

them for police officers

to deliver around town.

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One of several boxes filled with

fresh flowers arranged in little

vases or jelly jars.

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A few more boxes filled with arrangements that will soon be delivered to shut-ins or given

to seniors visiting the

Southborough Senior Center.

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Laurie, Judy and Cathy enjoy the "no-pressure" fun of quickly

making little arrangements and moving right along to make another.

(By coincidence, almost all of us showed up wearing navy and

white strips!)

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More little flower arrangements are packed up and waiting to surprise someone and, hopefully, brighten their day!

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Laurie, Mary, Jane, Veda, and

Cathy enjoy delicious refreshments and a relaxing visit at Marilyn's "Dragon-Lily Happening" in

one of her lovely wooded gardens.

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Marilyn explained that she created this stunning (and huge) table arrangement entirely from Queen Anne's lace, lilies, and other

wildflowers she ran across

in her travels.

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At Marilyn's last garden party she told us about this amazing stained glass dragon sculpture she was building.  It has been now been installed near the street where visitors can it enjoy it.  It is backlit and will look fabulous in the dark. 

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Jane Davis, our President for the

past two years, thanked her Board members and reviewed the meetings, workshops, outings

and community projects we

participated in during the past year.

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Debbie Corrigan, our incoming President, thanked Jane for two wonderful years.  Debbie summarized the events she and

her Program Committee have planned for the coming year.

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Debbie summarized the events

she and her Program Committee have planned for the coming year.

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Member cut a variety of

beautiful blooms and greens in

their yards and gathered in the community room at Colonial Gardens to design lots of small

arrangements to share.

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Dozens of pretty little

arrangements created by

our volunteers are ready to go!

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Members of the Southborough

Police Department help

us out by delivering
"Flowers for Friends" to

our shut-in neighbors

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Cathy, Laurie and Amy

have a huge selection of

flowers and greens to choose

fromwhile designing their arrangements.

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Sandra and Cathy enjoy putting

together several small

arrangements of flowers fresh

from members' yards.

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Judy and Betty put finishing

touches on a table full of arrangements and add a little

tag with the Southborough Gardeners logo.

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Many Southborough Gardeners members, led by Michele Landes, volunteer to plant, weed and

water the Library Garden.

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In the spring the irises are the

stars but in the foreground some

of the other perennials are

blooming and others will be

bloom throughout the summer.

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Late May, 2024

 

The Library iris couldn't be

more gorgeous!

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Shelley Dropkin, a long time and favorite member, is moving to join family in the Midwest so we wished her luck and happiness with some champagne and goodies!

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These huge colorful hanging annuals are a big favorites that attract customers to our

sale every year.

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Plant Sale Committee members Sue Baust, Sue Pyne and Caroline Rossen share the only bench during a break from setting up.

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The Plant Sale is an "all hands on deck" event for us.  Carol, Debbie, Sue, Sue, Shelley, Caroline, Salli, Laurie and Elizabeth are

obviously having a great time volunteering together!

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Our table of "part shade annuals" included many gorgeous and

unusual varieties of coleus.

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Our table of showy Martha Washington geraniums, and a few other colorful annuals, attracted a

lot of attention from shoppers.

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Perennials members dug

from their home gardens and donated to the sale are always in demand with shoppers.

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Plants ordered from commercial growers and those donated by members from their own gardens

are safely tucked away overnight before the sale on Saturday.

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Thank you to Sue Pyne, our Plant Sale Chairperson, and Shelley Dropkin, Sue's longtime second

in command!

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Our always popular classic geraniums and Martha Washington geraniums are looking beautiful

and waiting for shoppers.

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Our Friday morning "unload the truck team" takes a break for a

team photo.

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Our gorgeous, and huge, flowering hanging baskets are a favorite with our customers... and our members.

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Early bird shoppers look over all the choices and decide what they need for their gardens and yards.

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Lots of perennials, for both sun

and shade were available, many donate by our members.

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Sue Conti admires the plants and

the completed set-up just before

the sale opens and the customers flow in.

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