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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.

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.

Thank you to Roche Bros. Supermarkets for the generous gift card donated to our raffle.

Many thanks to other neighboring businesses who helped make our NGD raffle a success, helping to support our local projects.

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.

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.

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

Floral Designer

Caroline Rossen

Artists

Ishaan Gupta, Tucker Connelly

and Devin Zhang

Floral Designer

see floral arrangement >

Floral Designer

Jane Davis

Artist

Stephanie Provencal

Floral Designer

Sandra Peters

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Artist

Ellery Miller

Floral Designer

Nancy Mayo

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Artists

Stella Laurie, Aahna Asher,

Arnav Mittal and

Alexa Bhisitkul

Floral Designer

Julie Lapham

Artists

Faith Rumao, Vainavi Maniar

and Fiorella Heister

Floral Designer

see floral arrangement >

Artists

Faith Rumao, Vainavi Maniar

and Fiorella Heister

Floral Designer

Artists

Kinsley Jesus, Clare Sullivan

and Lucia Earls

Floral Designer

Karen Mutalik

Artists

Anika Bhagwat, Ava Capell,

Quinn McDowell, Stella Laurie,

and Leah Young

Floral Designer

Elaine Holmes

Artist

Nyra Patel

Floral Designer

Laurie Macauda

Artists

Emily Murphy

and Bryanna Chang

Floral Designers

Mary Caldwell
(arrangement below)

Artists

Emily Murphy and
Bryanna Chang

Floral Designer

Mary Caldwell

Artists

Emily Murphy and
Bryanna Chang

Floral Designer (Goofy)

Michele Landes >

Artists

Emily Murphy

and Bryanna Chang

Floral Designers

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Artists

Emily Murphy and
Bryanna Chang

Floral Designer (Minnie)

< Mary Caldwell

Artists

Noorain Banday, Violet Sabel, Aksharaa Sudarsan, and

Avery St. Andre

Floral Designer

see photo to the right>

Floral Designer

Michele Landes

Artists

Floral Designer

Michele Landes

Artist

Jewel Hao

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

Floral Designer

Michele Landes

Artist

Ashley Paik

Floral Designer

Caroline Rossen

Artists

Parker Gray, Logan Joyal

and Jacob Kallukalam

Floral Designers

Cathy Neidich and Carol vanBerkel

Artist

Alexis Zetes

Floral Designers

Anne-Marie Larche and

Marie Lescalleet

Artist

Hannah Jamros

Floral Designer

Michele Landes

Artist

Ruslana Matyeeva

Floral Designer

Debbie Corrigan

Artists

Chloe Monsato, Nolan Barry and Julia Guimaraes

Floral Designer

Sandra Peters

Artist

Myra Tyagi

Floral Designer

Michele Landes

Artist

Samantha Lee

Floral Designer

Michele Landes

Artist

Annabelle Brand

Floral Designer

Louise Turner

Artists

Alexandra Baltas and Anna Su

Floral Designer

Susan Conti and Danielle O'Connell

Artist

Michael Provencal

Floral Designer

Jan DeWolf and Joyce Macknauskas

Artists

Elizabeth Thomas

Floral Designer

Marilyn Stivers

Artists

Alexandra Baltas and Anna Su

Floral Designer

Susan Conti and Danielle O'Connell

Artist

Abhaya Visik

Floral Designer

Diane Lindon

Artist

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!

Cathy and Mary enjoy some of

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

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

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

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

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.

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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!

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.