Somerville Garden Club

Flower Arranging 

SGC member Tom Sopko will make three flower arrangements combining inexpensive grocery store flowers with garden material, demonstrating different design styles and different ways to hold the plant material in place. The arrangements will be given away at the end of the evening.

Tom Sopko has been arranging flowers for church services, weddings, the Boston Ballet, and other occasions for more than 35 years. He was a contributor to Judith Blacklock’s book Church Flowers (Flower Press, 2009).

Spiders: the Most Misunderstood Garden Protector

This talk is an opportunity to learn more about a very under-appreciated group of garden arthropods, spiders. Spiders are valuable apex predators in our gardens. This talk, shared from a spider expert In Indiana, includes pictures and descriptions of a wide variety of different spiders.

Bonnie Power has been a Massachusetts Master Gardener since 2016 (now a Lifetime MG) and member of the MMGA Speakers Bureau since 2018…and a serious outdoor/indoor gardener most of her life. Curious and research-oriented by nature, she has many horticultural interests and areas of expertise. Bonnie holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Zoology, which informs her perspective on the management of garden insects. She is a member of the MGA Soil pH Testing team and also volunteer guide at Garden in the Woods, a Native Plant Trust botanical garden in Framingham. She learned to grow vegetables as a child from her father, and flowers and houseplants from her mother. Early in her marriage her father-in-law provided her first lessons in organic gardening.  At home in Marlborough, Bonnie grows a variety of vegetables and ornamentals (with a bias for natives).

In-person meetings are held the at the Tufts Administration Building, (TAB), 167 Holland Street, second floor, wheelchair accessible. Parking is available for a small fee, and the building is a ten-minute walk from the Davis Square MBTA stop.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. 7-9pm. The SGC has been informed that the entry doors to the TAB will be locked at 8pm, effective immediately, including on our meeting days. Please arrange your arrival times accordingly.