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2024-2025 AGC General Meeting Program
Please note: Coffee and refreshments will be served at 10:00am, unless noted otherwise in the particular meeting description, with the general meeting to follow.
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When:
Unless noted otherwise, AGC General Meetings are held:
The first Tuesday of the month at 10:00, October through May.
10:00am: coffee, light refreshments and fellowship
10:30am: Andover Garden Club business
Programs begin promptly at the conclusion of AGC business
12:00pm: Meeting Ends
Where:
Unless noted otherwise, AGC General meetings are at:
South Church Fellowship Hall, Central St., Andover, MA, unless otherwise noted. (Click MAP).
Entrance to Fellowship Hall is on the right side of the church, toward the rear of the building.
*Note - Meetings will be cancelled when Andover schools are closed or delayed due to inclement weather.
2024-2025 CLUB GENERAL MEETINGS
October 1, 2024
Winter Crow Roost
Meeting starts at 10 am - South Church. Speaker starts at 11 am.
For years Lawrence has been the site of thousands of crows roosting every evening. Learn about this phenomenon from today’s speaker, Craig Gibson.
November 12, 2024
Growing plants for floral arranging
Meeting starts at 10 am at South Church. Speaker starts at 11 am.
Kaye Vosburgh will present tips for growing plants for the art of floral arranging. This will be a joint meeting with members of the Village Garden Club.
Note: This is the second Tuesday of the month.
December 3, 2024
Wreath Design Workshop
Meeting starts at 10 am at South Church.
Note: Today’s meeting will be for Andover Garden Club members only.
January 7, 2025
Drought tolerant plants
Meeting and speaker start at 10 am at South Church.
Jen Ketell of Radiant Leaf will be lecturing on selecting and growing drought tolerant plants for our changing New England climate. Today’s presentation will begin at 10 am.
February 4, 2025
Bread and Soup
Meeting starts at 11 am at South Church.
Topic: presenting our talented members’ beautiful gardens
March 4, 2025
Speaker: Russell Bowers of Boston Ikebana
Meeting starts at 10 am at South Church. Speaker starts at 11 am.
Topic to be announced
April 8, 2025
Speaker: Tracey Chalifour
Meeting starts at 7 pm at Memorial Hall.
Tracey Chalifour from the Merrimack River Watershed Council will be speaking at this month’s meeting. Important: This will be a 7 pm evening meeting, held at the Memorial Hall Library.
May 6, 2025
Annual Meeting
Meeting starts at 11 am at South Church.
The May meeting will feature Stacey Lee from Paeonia Design. After her presentation, the AGC will hold its annual meeting and install the new officers for the 2025-2026 season.
2024-2025 executive board MEETINGS
Executive Board Meetings will be held on the fourth Thursday of the month, except in November. Social time starts at 9:30 am, then the meeting will begin at 10:00 am, and should complete by 12 noon. Please notify the hostess if you will or will not be attending.
September 26, 2024
Stephanie Segall 10 Alonesos Way Andover 617-763-3888
October 24, 2024
Tina Girdwood 15 Tucker Rd Andover 978-475-5253
November 21, 2024
Heather Holman 40 Morningside Dr Lowell 978-500-0626
December, 2024
no meeting
January 23, 2025
Hostess To be announced
February 27, 2025
Judy Wright 10 Bellevue Rd Andover 978-337-7942
March 27, 2025
Betty Cunningham 53 Carmel Rd Andover 978-273-2804
April 24, 2025
Holli Marrs 3 Rutgers Rd Andover 978-390-1112
May 22, 2025
Karen Marshall 15 Jenkins Rd. Andover 978-852-9902
June 26, 2025
Leslie Frost 31 Lowell St Andover 978-475-8400
Please park on Iceland Rd
2023-2024 Past CLUB GENERAl MEETINGS
October 3, 2023
The Stuff of Dreams, Old Frog Pond Farm
Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, MA. Is a Certified organic orchards since 2006. Linda Hoffman’s active farm with pick your own raspberries, and apples. They host of annual outdoor sculpture garden exhibits and poetry event center. Linda’s growing philosophy can be summed up as Feed the Soil, Heal the Earth.
November 7, 2023
Evening Meeting: 6:30 PM
Lisa Oberholzer-Gee NYC Floral Designer with European and Asian Techniques
Lisa Oberholzer-Gee enjoys inspiring others to think beyond your everyday bouquet, expanding floral art using non traditional vessels, and adding mixed media elements. She will present a few arrangements to be auctioned off after the presentation, so plan to buy raffle tickets.
December 5, 2023
Seasonal Workshop
WREATHS FOR YOU AND FOR THE BIRDS. We will gather to create our own holiday wreath or arrangement. Join us for the fun of decorating with fellow club members. Please bring from home ornaments, ribbons, fruit, nuts and design pieces to add to the basic greens which the club will provide. If you have interesting greens to bring and wish to share that is always welcome too. Due to space limitations in the hall, it is requested that NO Guests be invited to this meeting. Signup at the November meeting, or directly with Judy Wright. Members will contribute $14 for each wreath to cover the basic cost of materials and additional floral items.
January 9, 2024
Indestructible Houseplants
Tovah Martin, an avid (verging on obsessed) gardener indoors and outside, Tovah Martin is the author of The Garden in Every Sense and Season which received GardenComm’s Gold Medal Media Award in 2019. That book follows several titles on houseplants including The Indestructible Houseplant, The Unexpected Houseplant, and The New Terrarium. She is an accredited Organic Land Care Professional through NOFA and an honorary member of the Garden Club of America. She speaks throughout the country and has lectured aboard the QE2 – during one of its roughest transatlantic crossings, somehow managing to stay vertical while speaking. She serves as a houseplant coach, helping clients make their homes greener places. THIS WILL BE A HYBRID ZOOM MEETING. Club members (and guests) may attend in the South Church meeting room; club members will also have the option of joining the event from home via Zoom. Zoom Meeting details to be announced.
February 6, 2024
Andover Pollinator Pathway
Our environmental committee will share a slideshow updating us on their progress over past 18 months of Andover Pollinator Pathway. The slides will include local APP gardens and ways AGC members can become involved.
March 5, 2024
GARDENTOPIA Designing Outdoor Spaces, Jan Johnsen
Trained in landscape architecture and horticulture, Jan has worked in Japan, Hawaii, and Kenya. She is an inspiring speaker and loves to show how you can use design and layout to create serene outdoor spaces. Jan taught at Columbia Univ. and teaches at the New York Botanical Garden where she was named “Instructor of the Year”. Her best-selling book, Gardentopia. THIS WILL BE A HYBRID ZOOM MEETING. Club members (and guests) may attend in the South Church meeting room; club members will also have the option of joining the event from home via Zoom. Zoom Meeting details to be announced.
April 2, 2024
Six Simple Steps to Successful Rose Gardening
Every gardener who wants to successfully grow roses will enjoy hearing Mike and Angelina Chute, co-owners of RoseSolutions, take the mystery out of rose gardening. Plenty of tips and personal anecdotes from over twenty years of rose gardening experience that demonstrate how easy it is to grow great roses.
Their books; Rose Gardening Season by Season: A Journal for Passionate Gardeners and Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening will be available.
May 7, 2024
Nests, Judith Sumner
Judith Sumner is a professor and botanist who specializes in ethnobotany, flowering plants, plant adaptations, and garden history. She is an award-winning author of The Natural History of Medicinal Plants (2000), and American Household Botany (2004) An inspiring speaker