Wollaston Garden Club - Education for all

Club Flower, Cornus florida
("Flowering Dogwood") Photograph ©2007 by Will Cook
(www.duke.edu/~cwcook)

education

something for everyone

The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts (GCFM)
offers wonderful lectures and workshops in horticulture and floral design at the Espousal Retreat Center in Waltham.
Details can be found in the Mayflower or on-line at our club web site and under the GCFM link. They come in series of threes and vary in cost. All workshop/lecture dates are listed in the garden club yearbook calendar.

The GCFM also offers a variety of more extensive courses based on the curriculums developed nationally by the National Garden Clubs, Inc. There are four schools sponsored each year in Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Master Gardener Training Course will be held this fall, beginning September 9th at the MA Horticulture Society’s headquarters at Elm Bank in Wellesley. Its mission is to promote horticultural knowledge through volunteerism; the course consists of 13 classroom and lab modules.

Go to www.massmastergardeners.org for more information and an application.

Environmental Studies School covers all aspects of environmental issues.

Schedule of Education Events - 2010 - 2011

Flower Show School
is a complete program for growing, showing and judging horticulture and design.Partial scholarships are available from the Wollaston Garden Club to qualifying club members of at least three years.
Details can be found on the WGC web site and from our Horticulture Chair, , at club meetings.

MA Master Gardener Training Course
begins September 9, 2010Gardening Study School presents basic garden information by specialists in the field.

Flower Show School
October 28 – 30, 2010 Landscape Design School is a comprehensive overview of landscape design and its history.

Garden Study School
April 7 – 9, 2011

Wollaston Garden Club, Post Office Box 147, Quincy MA 02170