Photo Gallery
Cathy and Mary enjoy some of
the comfortable seats while many of the members, and almost all attended, sat in the folding chairs.
Some of the Southborough Gardeners earliest active members along with two of today's active members.
Danielle, Judy and Susan encourage all members to be as active and involved as they continue to be.
One of three gorgeous Christmas tress that help to create the
festive mood for our annual
Holiday Brunch.
Michelle introduced a game where teams of members competed to correctly answer questions about the origin and history of the Southborough Gardeners.
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.
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!
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
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 !
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.
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.
Mary Jo Asher begins work on her first interpretation of our inspiration painting. See the completed arrangement on the left in the
row above.
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.
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.
Lorraine Walsh created this
freestyle arrangement of orchids
and mums with Colombian influences inspired by the bowl
she is using.
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.
This lovely arrangement with
pine cones and flowers in winter hues was Mary Jo Asher's first interpretation of the
inspiration painting.
Southborough Girl Scouts volunteered along with our club members to plant spring bulbs around the gardens at the Southborough Library.
Every month a member volunteers
to creates a fresh seasonal arrangement for the Southborough Library. Cathy Neidich designed this one for October.
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!
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.
Paula Schwartz, one of our
members enjoys creating an
Ikebana arrangement of her own.
Member Judy Quinlan, poses
with her completed Ikebana arrangement.
Several times each year we cut flowers and greens in our own
yards and get together for
"Flowers for Friends".
Sue, who organizes "Flowers for Friends", adds a logo card to
each arrangement and boxes
them for police officers
to deliver around town.
One of several boxes filled with
fresh flowers arranged in little
vases or jelly jars.
A few more boxes filled with arrangements that will soon be delivered to shut-ins or given
to seniors visiting the
Southborough Senior Center.
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!)
More little flower arrangements are packed up and waiting to surprise someone and, hopefully, brighten their day!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Debbie summarized the events
she and her Program Committee have planned for the coming year.
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.
Dozens of pretty little
arrangements created by
our volunteers are ready to go!
Members of the Southborough
Police Department help
us out by delivering
"Flowers for Friends" to
our shut-in neighbors
Cathy, Laurie and Amy
have a huge selection of
flowers and greens to choose
fromwhile designing their arrangements.
Sandra and Cathy enjoy putting
together several small
arrangements of flowers fresh
from members' yards.
Judy and Betty put finishing
touches on a table full of arrangements and add a little
tag with the Southborough Gardeners logo.
Many Southborough Gardeners members, led by Michele Landes, volunteer to plant, weed and
water the Library Garden.
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.
Late May, 2024
The Library iris couldn't be
more gorgeous!
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!
These huge colorful hanging annuals are a big favorites that attract customers to our
sale every year.
Plant Sale Committee members Sue Baust, Sue Pyne and Caroline Rossen share the only bench during a break from setting up.
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!
Our table of "part shade annuals" included many gorgeous and
unusual varieties of coleus.
Our table of showy Martha Washington geraniums, and a few other colorful annuals, attracted a
lot of attention from shoppers.
Perennials members dug
from their home gardens and donated to the sale are always in demand with shoppers.
Plants ordered from commercial growers and those donated by members from their own gardens
are safely tucked away overnight before the sale on Saturday.
Thank you to Sue Pyne, our Plant Sale Chairperson, and Shelley Dropkin, Sue's longtime second
in command!
Our always popular classic geraniums and Martha Washington geraniums are looking beautiful
and waiting for shoppers.
Our Friday morning "unload the truck team" takes a break for a
team photo.
Our gorgeous, and huge, flowering hanging baskets are a favorite with our customers... and our members.
Early bird shoppers look over all the choices and decide what they need for their gardens and yards.
Lots of perennials, for both sun
and shade were available, many donate by our members.
Sue Conti admires the plants and
the completed set-up just before
the sale opens and the customers flow in.
In May members Caroline Rossen and Marilyn Stivers hosted a workshop and taught us about
the Japanese Art of the Moss Ball.
Danielle O'Connell created this
pretty fern kokedama.
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Cathy Neidich chose a gorgeous
blue/green succulent to top her
kokedama moss ball.
Barb Kantorski found it wasn't
easy, and was pretty messy, to
make a ball of soil, add an orchid, cover it with moss and then wrap it all together with clear fishing line (which you can see bottom right).
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On April 19th eleven of our
members bundled up to
enjoy "Tulip Mania"!
Massachusetts Horticultural
Society's "Tulip Mania" took place
at their Elm Bank property
from April 17th through 28th.
"Tulip Mania" is Elm Bank's
official opening for spring.
Visit them on the Wellesley/
Natick/Dover line.
Susan Nock form Thistle Garden Design demonstrated spring container planting. She assembled three stunning creations.
As she worked, Susan shared
some tips such as filling the entire
container, no matter how large,
with potting soil and using
a shard of pottery to cover the
hole in the bottom of the pot.
Three lucky club members were delighted to win the gorgeous planters Susan created during
her presentation!
This floral "Birthday Cake"
celebrates the Sherborn Daffodil
Trail and was created by
Sherborn Garden Club member Nicole Wiemeyer.
Jane Davis, Diana Lindon,
Cathy Neidich and Veda Greene enjoyed the Sherborn Garden
Club's Flower Show celebrating
their 50th Anniversary.
This floral "Birthday Cake"
celebrates the Sherborn Library.
It was designed by Sherborn
Garden Club member
Nancy Schaad.
Isabelle Zee is a native of France
and grew up surrounded by flowers. She has lived and traveled around
the world and trained under a
world-renowned floral designer.
Isabelle Zee is a floral
designer and the owner of
Le Bouquets du Grillion
in Sudbury Massachusetts. She
will design a dream bouquet for
your special occasion.
A little collection of Santas
and a trio of lanterns make a
pretty display on a hall table.
Michele Landes, with assistance
from Jane Davis, created this interpretation of a Torso of a
Guardian of the Buddhist Faith, Kamakura Period, (1185- 1333) for "Flora in Winter 2024" at the Worcester Art Museum.
Julie Lapham's arrangment
interprets Scholar's Rock,
Chinese 20th Century
at the Worcester Art Museum's
"Flora in Winter 2024"
Isabelle shared some of her
favorite techniques while
creating this stunning
arrangement with roses,
orchids, tiny blooms and
interesting greens.
Michele Landes generously hosted our annual holiday brunch.
We all enjoyed the Christmas decorations all around her
beautiful home, including
this stunning tree.
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Again this year, the brunch buffet was gorgeous and delicious!
Another gorgeous Christmas tree
is framed by bay windows
featuring decorated wreaths.
This is one of several mantle pieces, decorated with pretty greens and wonderful holiday collections
Debbie Corrigan and Laurie
Macauda created this classic
and elegant tablescape.
Holiday china, silver and crystal
along with a special surprise
for New Year's Eve make a lovely table. All this is made even more festive with fresh greens and
pine cones.
Cathy Neidich and Paula Schwartz
invite you to pull up a comfy
floor cushion to enjoy
a hip dinner party!
Paula enters wearing her maxi
skirt, fringed suede vest and
peace sign necklace.
Cathy comes in sporting a colorful
tie dyed T-shirt she made for the occasion. Notice the vintage
buttons with messages
from the 60s.
Jan DeWolf created this
lovely winter/holiday arrangement
for the Southborough Library.
Another view of the arrangement to the left. You can make one of your own at our Winter Greens Workshop on December 19th.
You can recreate this beautiful centerpiece of red and white roses with winter greens and berries at our Winter Greens Workshop on December 19th.