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
2024 -2025
June 2025
May 2025
May 14th - Brewster Baptist Church
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.
So far this year ....
April 2025
April 9th - Brewster Baptist Church
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
March 12th
Orleans CHO - Center for Culture and History
February 2025
Field Trip, June 3, 2025 @ 10:00 AM
Wildflower Garden Tour with Janice Donovan
Thornton Burgess Green Briar Nature Center & Jam Kitchen
6 Discovery Hill Road
East Sandwich, MA 02537
508.888.6870
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June 11th Club Luncheon MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW
General Meeting
February 12th 12:30
Brewster Baptist Church
Les Lutz, “Rhododendrons of Heritage Museum and Gardens”.
Director of Horticulture and Management at Heritage Museums and Gardens.
Workshop before meeting is canceled
January 2025
General Meeting
January 8th 1- 2:30 ZOOM MEETING
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
General Meeting
November 13th 12:30
Brewster Baptist Church
Speaker: Janice Dill from
Green Briar Nature Center & a possible follow-up field trip
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
9 th General Meeting 12:30 Brewster Baptist ChurchSpeaker:
Donelle Donery from MA Master Gardeners Donelle spoke about putting your garden to sleep.
September 2024
11th
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.
LOOK WHAT WE ENJOYED THIS PAST YEAR !! 2023-2024
June 2024
June 12th
Our Annual Meeting, a wonderful luncheon at a beautiful location in Harwich, was hosted by one of our Club members.
May 2024
8th GENERAL MEETING GUEST DAY - FREE ADMISSION - DOORS OPEN NOON
PROGRAM 1:00 BREWSTER BAPTIST CHURCH
Program Title: "Spring is here" Bob Whitney AIFD
While creating different designs in front of the audience I will cover such topics as…. Care and handling and the chain of life of flowers, transportation of today products, useful products used to treat flowers, products available to help the designer, mechanics of a design, design styles, color, line, texture, balance.
Bob has worked in the floral industry for 45 years, in retail, wholesale and education. He has presented many demos to local garden clubs in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
A 37 year member of the American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD). He presented a program at the national symposium of AIFD in Atlanta (Tropical Techniques). Now in retirement he is teaching floral design classes at the Suffield senior center and the West Springfield creative arts center.
He has participated in the Festival of Flowers at the Springfield Museums for many years.
April 2024
10th GENERAL MEETING
Speaker Karen O’Brien, owner of “The Green Woman’s Garden”
www.greenwomansgarden.com in the town of Richmond, NH. Karen is a master gardener and affiliated with the Northeast Membership District Delegate for the Herb Society of America, past Botany and Horticulture Chair of HAS, and past Secretary of the International Herb Association. She is also a contributing author and editor to the several Herb of the Year books, produced by the IHA.
Karen will present “Infusing your life with herbs.” and introduce ways to use culinary herbs in your everyday life. Learn how to take simple culinary staples, such as butters, sugars, vinegars, and more and transform them into something special with the addition of fresh herbs, infusing your pantry with the scents and colors of summer. We will be able to sample an array of herb-kissed food products which will enliven your meals throughout the year and begin your own herbal adventure.
Workshop With Karen O’Brien we will create three herbal items for your pantry after her lecture.
Material fee $7.50 per person if interested – Members Only Details to follow.
March 2024
13th GENERAL MEETING
Pot Luck organized by the Hospitality Committee
Orleans Yacht Club Members and Guests
February 2024
7th BOARD MEETING
14th GENERAL MEETING
Speaker Bird scaping: Home Sweet Habitat
Joan Butler holds a bachelor’s degree in Geology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Certificate in Landscape Management from UMass Extension Green School. She is a Master Gardener, has worked as a horticulturist at Weston Nurseries, and is a past Chairman of the Massachusetts Landscape Design Council. She is also a member of the Garden Consultants Council and an accredited Flower Show Judge.
Joan presented a richly illustrated program that explored the importance of creating welcoming habitats for birds through thoughtful landscape choices, including native plants, vital for food and nesting sites. We learned about the benefits and joys of creating beautiful, layered gardens designed for avian – and human habitat.
January 2024
3 BOARD MEETING
10 GENERAL MEETING Zoom
Speaker: Sally Muspratt
A graduate of Radcliffe in the field of Landscape Design and owner of Sally Muspratt Landscape Design, Inc. smmgardens@gmail.com among many other accomplishments, led us on a tour of Le Quatre Vents, located in Charlevoix County, Quebec where she has the opportunity to visit often. Le Quatre Vents is considered one of the world’s most breathtaking gardens. Sally’s spoke of Frances H. Cabot, Founder of Nature Conservancy in 1989 and Horticulturalist who’s parent’s owned Le- Quatre Vents.
Sally’s presentation offered us beautiful views of this wonderful garden to help chase our winter blues away!
December 2023
6 BOARD MEETING
13 GENERAL MEETING
Workshop: SHARON DAVIS Flower Show Judge, former President of the Garden Club of Arizona and Nauset Garden Club as well as a multiple award-winning art in bloom designer led our group through the process of creating a holiday mantelpiece or centerpiece. She demonstrate the Color Blocking method of flower arrangement.
November 2023
October 2023
40th Anniversary of the Nauset Garden Club
The celebration started with an optional visit to the Cape Cod Museum of Art followed by a luncheon with special recognitions at the Encore Bistro & Bar Dennis, MA
September 2023
Workshop: Joan Karter, Nauset Garden Club Secretary & Sue Poskitt, Outreach Committee led a workshop on creating Thanksgiving Centerpieces
Speaker: Jeannie Dodson-Edgars, Master Gardeners Association of Cape Cod and Horticulturalist.
Presentation Title, “Containers are the answer, what is the question?”
Jeannie has lived in Oregon, Santa Fe New Mexico & Sandwich and has gardened in all types of soils. Jeannie shared her wins and losses and a demonstration on container gardening.
13th General Meeting
Speaker: Jack Ahern, a landscape architect and the author of the book Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands.
He is a retired professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst. He now lives on Cape Cod. He spoke about plant communities that define Cape Cod’s landscape character and that are well adapted to local soils and growing conditions. Jack is an international expert in landscape ecology and ecological design.
Art in Bloom
June 2023
Crosby Mansion
JUNE 2023
Ron Jolicour Photography
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.
