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Elizabeth shares that good news
that our annual wreath sale fundraiser was a huge success.
Members enjoy a chance to sit
and chat before the
meeting begins.
Everyone enjoy the program and
the beautiful holiday decorations!
The beautiful, and delicious,
buffet at our annual holiday
brunch.
And more delicious food...
a table of desserts!
Michele, our President this year
and our hostess every year for
many years, welcomes us.
Michele created this beautiful holiday floral arrangement in a vintage vase to celebrate the opening of the Southborough History and Art Center on December 9, 2025.
Michele created this large wreath to celebrate the opening of the Southborough History and Arts Center. It's nature inspired design and materials are lovely.
Joyce created this pretty little
holiday tree for a planter at
the Southborough Town Hall.
Lisa Churchill of Blush Bouquets
in Ashland, MA created three soft flowing designs in her in her signature style and discussed
what inspired her to start her
own business.
This stunning design created
during Lisa Churchill's demonstration became
sought after raffle prize.
Lisa Churchill considers how best
to use this greenery in one of her demonstration designs.
At the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, members mingle and chat while waiting for others to arrive.
Mary and Jan grab some refreshments. We all enjoyed
coffee, tea, fresh fruit and muffins.
The Wayside Inn's Innkeeper and historical expert share information about the Inn's previous owners, including a wealthy Waltham businessman and industrialist
Henry Ford.
This lovely arrangement Lisa created as part of her demonstration went home with a raffle bidder.
Michele, our current President, created this beautiful arrangement
to grace our table of delicious refreshments!
Many thanks to Faris Farm Flowers in Westborough for for this pretty donation to our NGD raffle table!
Thank you to Artistry Floral Watercolors for their raffle donation of a gift box containing holiday notecards, notepaper, and a mini framed original watercolor.
Thanks to Debbie from Lady Slippers Vintage Treasures for a fun collection of collections of items to brighten your day.
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Thank you to Wegman's Supermarket for a generous gift card donated to our raffle.
Thank you to Lisa Ken Studio for the pretty holiday gift basket.
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Thank you to Roche Bros. Supermarkets for the generous gift card donated to our raffle.
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Many thanks to other neighboring businesses who helped make our NGD raffle a success, helping to support our local projects​.
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Michele, our President and the Inn's historical expert talk about past uses of the building, the design of the garden and even a list of the plants grown in the garden when it was first planted.
Members took the opportunity to tour the Inn's upstairs where, in addition to guest rooms, several rooms were set up "museum style" with period antiques.
This historic guest room had a simple bed, appropriate for the period and a table and chairs set
up for someone to enjoy
playing cards.
Members enjoyed touring the "English-Style" garden. It was the first chilly day of Fall but the sun was out and there were many flowers still blooming in the garden.
Cathy and Sue have a look around the garden and admire, lots of colorful zinnia's, dahlia's, daisies and other flowers. We were told the Inn also has an herb garden back near a pond on the property.
Members walked back to the far end of the garden where there is a sculpture of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote "Tales of a Wayside Inn". The book became so famous that the Inn was renamed
"Longfellow's Wayside Inn".
Michele, our new President for 2025-26, welcomed us all to our first meeting of the year. She caught us up on things happening over the summer, particularly the gardens and planters we maintain.
A great turnout of old and new members listen to Michele's fall update while admiring the beautiful restored barn at Chestnut Hill Farm, a Trustees of Reservation property.
A representative of The Trustees of Reservation told us about the restoration of the barn and the process of finding a qualified farmer to farm some of the property.
Elizabeth, our new Treasurer,
help a member picking up her
copy of our 2025-26 Yearbook
and paying her dues.
Debbie and Laurie look over the signup sheets and decide what events they want to attend and
what projects they'll help with.
Carol and Sue... and all of us
enjoyed a delicious brunch and
lots of catching up with friends before the program began.
The stunning view from the barn
out to the Chestnut Hill Farm...
on an absolutely beautiful day!
Buckets of flowers and boxes of glass jars wait to be combined into
Flowers for Friends. Several times each year members create pretty
little arrangements of fresh flowers for Southborough seniors.
Here are few of the dozens of small arrangements that are tagged and ready to go. Southborough Police help deliver the flowers to the
Senior Center, Senior Housing
and housebound seniors.
Cathy and Judy a few more little arrangements they just created to the box of others ready to share.
After each creating several little arrangements, friends take a break
to pose for a picture!
Susan, who always organizes our Flowers for Friends events, adds
a little extra water to arrangements ready to be delivered to local seniors.
Michele, one of our most knowledgeable gardeners, offers advice and suggestions to help a shopper choose the right perennials for her garden.
Every year shoppers come to our Spring Plant Sale looking for our beautiful geraniums! We had
white ones, red ones and ones in shade of pink in between!
Several customers consider which plants might look best in their gardens. Sue is standing by, ready
to make recommendations or
answer questions.
In the foreground are some big
beautiful flowering shrubs. Behind them are many tables of colorful annuals including large pots perfect alone as well as smaller pots perfect for combining in fancy planters
and window boxes.
This customer collected a wagon
load of colorful new plants to decorate his yard. Joyce is happy
to help make it quick and easy to check out and pay.
Three long tables just like this one were covered with perennials grown right here in member's gardens.
This should ensure that these
plants will be happy and healthy in Southborough gardens.
A shopper looks over some amazingly tall ferns that will add
lots of height and some interesting texture to her garden.
Southborough friends and
neighbors enjoy stopping to chat while shopping for perennials
dug from our member's gardens
and colorful annuals from
local growers.
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To help promote our annual
Spring Plant Sale, Sue placed this stunning Martha Washington geranium on display in the Southborough Library as an
example of the beautiful, healthy plants available at the sale.
Nineteen Southborough Girl Scouts working on their Gardening Badge got help planting flowers from seeds. The girls, their Scout Leaders, and Susan, Elizabeth, Debbie and Marie, from the Southborough Gardeners had a fun afternoon planting!
One of our guides, a botanist with
The Native Plant Trust, the owners
of the Garden in the Woods,
filled us in on the history of the garden and answered all our
questions about the plants and
their habitats in the garden.
Beautiful trillium, like this pink one, are native to our area. Our guide reminded us that, if we run across
a plant like this while walking in
the woods, we are not allowed to
dig it up and move it.
This exotic looking plant with it's dark maroon flower is another
local variety of trillium. Don't be tempted to dig it up and plant it
in your yard, our guide said it probably won't do well there.
This very exotic looking plant with
bright yellow flowers is a lady slipper. It is native to woods in
New England.
These delightful little blue flowers
were growing in mounds along an upland trail. Our guide said the
best display of them in the area is
in the median strip on Rt. 495!
Our guide, and driver, for the morning stopped frequently to point out interesting or unusual plants and habitats from ponds, to swamps, to sunny dry uplands, to upland woodlands.
This pretty pond had all sorts of naive plants thriving in and around it, including the many water lilies.
There was also a variety of wildlife, including turtles we could see and frogs we could hear.
Yet another local native trillium, this one white with a bright yellow center, popped up here and there along our walk through the garden.
These gorgeous violets grew in brightly colored clumps in a sunny upland transitional area. A huge
tree had shaded the area for year and now that there is sun, a whole different collection of plants has move in.
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.
Student artist Michael Provencal poses with Southborough Gardeners members Jan and Joyce who
created a lovely floral arrangement inspired by his painting.
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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Artist
Alina Makani
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Floral Designer
Caroline Rossen
Artists
Ishaan Gupta, Tucker Connelly
and Devin Zhang
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Floral Designer
see floral arrangement >
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Floral Designer
Jane Davis
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Artist
Stephanie Provencal
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Floral Designer
Sandra Peters
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Artist
Ellery Miller
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Floral Designer
Nancy Mayo
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Artists
Stella Laurie, Aahna Asher,
Arnav Mittal and
Alexa Bhisitkul
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Floral Designer
Julie Lapham
Artists
Faith Rumao, Vainavi Maniar
and Fiorella Heister
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Floral Designer
see floral arrangement >
Artists
Faith Rumao, Vainavi Maniar
and Fiorella Heister
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Floral Designer
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Artists
Kinsley Jesus, Clare Sullivan
and Lucia Earls
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Floral Designer
Karen Mutalik
Artists
Anika Bhagwat, Ava Capell,
Quinn McDowell, Stella Laurie,
and Leah Young
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Floral Designer
Elaine Holmes
Artist
Nyra Patel
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Floral Designer
Laurie Macauda
Artists
Emily Murphy
and Bryanna Chang
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Floral Designers
Mary Caldwell
(arrangement below)
Artists
Emily Murphy and
Bryanna Chang
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Floral Designer
Mary Caldwell
Artists
Emily Murphy and
Bryanna Chang
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Floral Designer (Goofy)
Michele Landes >
Artists
Emily Murphy
and Bryanna Chang
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Floral Designers
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Artists
Emily Murphy and
Bryanna Chang
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Floral Designer (Minnie)
< Mary Caldwell
Artists
Noorain Banday, Violet Sabel, Aksharaa Sudarsan, and
Avery St. Andre
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Floral Designer
see photo to the right>
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Floral Designer
Michele Landes
Artists
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Floral Designer
Michele Landes
Artist
Jewel Hao
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Floral Designers
Betsy Crowley and Judy Quinlan
Artists
Lily Gerbofsky, Julian Benoit,
Cherie Tanobe, Stella Guimaraes, Vivienne Spezzano,
Lynx Mercadante, Maria Glaser, Mary Moorehead, Mila Nguyen,
Ava Capell, Quinn McDowell,
and Anika Bhagwat
Floral Designer
Betty Meyer
Artists
Amaya Shah, Elly Carlson, and
Kailin Tan
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Floral Designer
Michele Landes
Artist
Ashley Paik
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Floral Designer
Caroline Rossen
Artists
Parker Gray, Logan Joyal
and Jacob Kallukalam
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Floral Designers
Cathy Neidich and Carol vanBerkel
Artist
Alexis Zetes
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Floral Designers
Anne-Marie Larche and
Marie Lescalleet
Artist
Hannah Jamros
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Floral Designer
Michele Landes
Artist
Ruslana Matyeeva
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Floral Designer
Debbie Corrigan
Artists
Chloe Monsato, Nolan Barry and Julia Guimaraes
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Floral Designer
Sandra Peters
Artist
Myra Tyagi
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Floral Designer
Michele Landes
Artist
Samantha Lee
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Floral Designer
Michele Landes
Artist
Annabelle Brand
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Floral Designer
Louise Turner
Artists
Alexandra Baltas and Anna Su
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Floral Designer
Susan Conti and Danielle O'Connell
Artist
Michael Provencal
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Floral Designer
Jan DeWolf and Joyce Macknauskas
Artists
Elizabeth Thomas
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Floral Designer
Marilyn Stivers
Artists
Alexandra Baltas and Anna Su
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Floral Designer
Susan Conti and Danielle O'Connell
Artist
Abhaya Visik
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Floral Designer
Diane Lindon
Artist
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Floral Designer
Michele Landes
Jan and Caroline admire the flower choices at the Spring Bulb Workshop at The Potting Bar at Weston Nurseries.
Veda, Mary, Susan and Carol
and other members admire their Spring Bulb creations.
One of our members created this lovely planter and will get to enjoy it at home all Spring!