Somerville Garden Club

SGC Members Travel Around the World

Four club members will show photos and talk about their visits to gardens and horticultural venues around the world and the United States.

Dorothy Gilman will show images of house plants she photographed in Tuscany, Italy. Dawn Burau will talk about images she took in Japan in March 2024 of gardens, temples, and plum trees in bloom. Danielle Morgan will present photos from a trip she took to India in 2023. Judy Eisenberg will show photos from SGC’s June 2024 field trip to Sakonnet Gardens in Little Compton, Rhode Island. Additional Sakonnet Gardens photos contributed by John Hallam, Evelyn Persoff, Kris Piatt, Jeffrey Quilter and Sarah Quilter.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. 7-9pm.

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.

If you are interested in attending virtually, but have not received the meeting link via email, or are not a SGC member, you can email info@somervillegardenclub.org for the link.

An Update on Somerville’s Urban Forestry Plan

Vanessa Boukili, the City of Somerville’s Senior Urban Forestry and Landscape Planner will talk to us about the latest updates to the City’s Urban Forest Management Plan. A lot has happened since the city launched its Urban Forestry Plan in 2021 and Vanessa will talk about what they’ve learned and how Somerville’s residents can support the trees. 

Dr. Vanessa Boukili is the City of Somerville’s Senior Urban Forestry and Landscape Planner. She holds a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut. Prior to joining the City’s staff Vanessa served as Research Director for Urban Forests at Earthwatch Institute, Boston.

Fabulous Garden Photographs

Marion Davis has been an avid photographer, since 2022. She runs the Somerville Garden Club’s Instagram feed, filling it with pictures she takes on her daily walks through the city. She will explain how we can capture beautiful images of our gardens using our cell phone’s camera settings.  No photography training needed.

Marion Davis is a writer, editor and communications strategist who works mainly on climate change and sustainable development issues, with clients around the world. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she has loved nature and gardening since she was a child and has been growing things for most of her life. Her current garden, in East Somerville, is packed with native plants and other flowers, shrubs and vines, and a profusion of bugs and birds. She recently joined the Somerville Urban Forestry Committee and also serves on the board of Walk Massachusetts.

All Somerville Garden Club meetings are free and open to the public. 7-9pm.

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.

If you are interested in attending virtually, but have not received the meeting link via email, or are not a SGC member, you can email info@somervillegardenclub.org for the link.