The Nauset Garden Club of Cape Cod, MA
Nauset Garden Club Members can access the full description of Club Activities on the MEMBER PAGE
Club Events and Activities
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Special Events
LOOK WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED
2025 -2026
Plans are already underway for fun and educational programs and workshops next year. Plans are always subject to change but as you can see in the following, our Programs Committee has been very busy!
October 8, 2025
Outdoor guide, Andrea Higgins is an educator and has led many walks for children and adults for a number of conservation commissions on Cape Cod. Andrea will introduce us to a unique way to experience the beauty of the outdoors. This guided mindful experience that she will share will gently invite you to notice all that is around you, engage your senses, and absorb the healing properties of your garden outdoor experiences. We may venture outdoors if whether allows.
November 12,2025
Joan Butler will visit with us once again. Joan holds a degree in Geology from UMass Amherst and is a Certified Landscape Manager. “Propagating Peennials Workshop” Will increase your perennial collection, replace mature plants, grow varieties that may not be offered for sale, and even produce new hybrids! Learn different propagation skills including growing from seed, cuttings and divisions of a wide range of perennials in the combination lecture and demonstration.
December 10, 2025
BOARD MEETING - GENERAL MEETING
Holiday Workshop – Making Holiday Arrangements
JANUARY 2026
14 BOARD MEETING - GENERAL MEETING Zoom
Landscaping for Wildlife/ Brooke Shellman Audubon Society, Discover
the benefits of planting native species both to your property and to birds
and other wildlife.
FEBRUARY 2026
11 BOARD MEETING - GENERAL MEETING
Pot et Fleur with Susan Dewey, award winning designer, Garden Club of
America Judge will create 3 arrangements that will be raffled off at the
meeting. Pot-et-Fleur is the art of combining houseplants with cut
flowers.
MARCH 2026
11 BOARD MEETING - GENERAL MEETING Potluck
APRIL 2026
9 BOARD MEETING - GENERAL MEETING
Orchids/ Master Gardener Yasmine McNellis. Great tips to help
your orchids thrive!
MAY 2026
8 BOARD MEETING - GENERAL MEETING
Garden Tourist for the Northeast/ Jana Milbocker, author and
Master Gardener who combines horticulture, design and travel tips
to inspire and delight!
JUNE 2026
13 BOARD MEETING/GENERAL Annual Luncheon – TBD
SEPTEMBER 10 GENERAL MEETING
Floral designer Delores Ahearn led a lesson on Petite Design. This is a demonstration only and we hope it sparks your interest in entering a flower show.
Look What We Did So Far This Year.....
Look What We Did Last Year 2024-2025
June 2025
Field Trip: Wildflower Garden Tour with
Janice Donovan
Thornton Burgess Green Briar Club Luncheon at Town Cove Tap Room
Nature Center & Jam Kitchen
And.....
May 2025
Program Title: "Everything Spring"
Karen Moore - Planning and Planting for the Summer Garden
A garden consultant’s perspective on helping people to plan perennial and vegetable gardens.
Karen will demonstrate with emphasis on Color, Texture and Form.
Karen has been working in industry for more than fifty years. She owned a flower shop in Chatham over 20 years, was a vendor at the Orleans Farmers Market selling her bread, flowers and veggies and works with her husband in their family landscaping business.
And.....
GARDEN FEST
A FUNDRAISER WITH LATHAM CENTER
More information and pictures coming soon
April 2025
Donna Garrabrant, Garden Club Federation of MA, SE District Director and Master Gardener
Subject - Pruning & Selections of Roses
March 2025
Potluck Supper for Family and Friends
Orleans CHO - Center for Culture and History
February 2025
Les Lutz, “Rhododendrons of Heritage Museum and Gardens”.
Director of Horticulture and Management at Heritage Museums and Gardens.
January 2025
Join Claudia Thomson, a well-renowned speaker and expert on native landscaping. Ms. Thomson is a Landscape Ecologist and Founder of Grow Native Massachusetts. Her presentation, “Secrets of Success for Native Plant Landscapes,” will take an in-depth look at how to garden successfully with native plants to create landscapes that have genuine ecological value. For more information on Claudia Thomson please visit www.claudiagthompson.com.
December 2024
November 2024
And.....
Speaker: Janice Dill from Green Briar Nature Center
The Green Briar Nature Center is a sanctuary of peace and beauty throughout the seasons. It is located on the shores of Smiling Pool and adjacent to the famous Briar Patch of Thornton Burgess’s stories. It is also the home to the Dr. Shirley G. Cross Wildflower Garden and the Green Meadow Forest and Live Menagerie, which has a number of small resident animals… it is a wonderful place to bring the family!
October 2024
Speaker: Donelle Donnery from MA Master Gardeners Donelle spoke about putting your garden to sleep.
September 2024
7 SISTERS FLORALS West Chatham.
Speaker: Janet Sherin designs and makes flower arrangements using florals that she grows along with some found and purchased materials have a garden She does arrangements for small weddings, events and dinner parties.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Art in Bloom
June 2023
Crosby Mansion
JUNE 2023
Ron Jolicour Photography
More Art in Bloom
Art in Bloom throughout the Years
DEFINITION
The phrase Art In Bloom is often used as the title of various exhibits held annually, usually in spring, in art museums. The exhibit is composed of traditional visual art pieces and corresponding flower arrangements done by local professional florists and garden club members.
The phrase was created by a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, volunteer, Lorraine M. Pitts who also helped found the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA. The original exhibit was held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1976, where it is held annually.
ORIGINS
NGC ART IN BLOOM
NGC has held SIX Art in Bloom events. Three events were held at the elegant Crosby Mansion and the others at The Church of the Holy Spirit and the Orleans Elementary School
JUNE 2018
MAY 2011
JUNE 2015
APRIL 2009
FEBRUARY 2011
With 2nd Grade Children at Orleans Elementary School
JUNE IN BLOOM
This year the Boston MFA could not celebrate Art in Bloom, their annual festival of fine art and flowers. In the creative spirit of this beloved spring tradition, please enjoy June in Bloom in this virtual space—discover floral masterpieces from across the MFA’s global collection and be inspired to create your own.
