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February Meeting: Garden Design Basics and Seed Swap

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Cheryl Salatino gave us a comprehensive presentation on the basics of garden design emphasizing the need to check the view both in and out of the area, color, texture, noise, uses and more. Plant selection follows good analysis, not the other way around. We also had our seed sharing event and members had a choice … Read more

Happy New Year

The Gardeners Exchange website has an updated look for 2017. The same content is here along with some new, member only features you’ll hear more about as we progress into the year. Most things should work like they always have with some additional improvements for users of smaller screen and touch screen devices. If you … Read more

August Meetings

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Our ”Special Event: Tour of the Edible Garden at Tower Hill” tentatively scheduled for Sunday, August 7, has been moved to Sunday, August 28. Our tour guide will be Joann Vieira, Director of Horticulture at THBG. And yes, this is a Sunday meeting – meet at the Center Town Hall in Shirley for carpooling at … Read more

First Meetings of 2016 Announced!

Our dedicated committees have been busy during our winter break. Our first three meetings of 2016 are planned and on the calendar! Here’s what is coming up in February, March and April: Low-Maintenance Gardening with Native Plants Epimediums: Jewels of the Shade Healthy Soils = Healthy People Get the details on the upcoming events list!

August 2015 Meeting

On Saturday, August 15th, we met for  our Annual Container Contest and a presentation on herbs by member Jen Mitton at the farm belonging to the Hillside School in Marlborough where Jen is the Farm Director and Educator.

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