Boxford Village Garden Club

02/15/2026

This Friday morning, February 20, Joan Butler of Enchanted Gardens will give us a talk on Designing Shade Retreats. She will show us design tricks to create our own shady retreats, including tricks and strategies to light up shady corners, highlight unusual plants that thrive in low-light conditions, and illustrate the creative use of art objects, seating, and water features.

As always, the general public is welcome to sit in on any of our General Meetings. Find our calendar here, https://www.boxfordvillagegardenclub.org/calendar
Meetings begin at around 9:30 with coffee and light refreshments. Our speakers generally begin around 10:30.

Joan Butler is a horticulturist at Weston Nurseries and a Master Gardener. She is past chairman of the Massachusetts Landscape Design Council, a member of Garden Consultants Council, and an accredited Flower Show Judge. Check out her website here https://www.enchantedgardensdesign.com/

02/13/2026

01/18/2026

The Boxford Village Garden Club awards an annual (one-time) $2,000 scholarship to a Boxford, MA, high school senior who plans to pursue a college major aligned with the Club’s Mission Statement. For more information, please visit our website: https://www.boxfordvillagegardenclub.org/scholarship

Completed applications must be submitted by 4:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. The scholarship recipient will be announced by May 15, 2026.

01/18/2026

Lynn on her 100 years old birthday party. Also in the photo is Marge who began the Boxford Village Garden Club’s Great Group program. The Great Group is a 20 person selection of Boxford residents 75 years and older. Marge began the program in the early seventies. The program is run by members of the Boxford Village Garden Club headed by Suzy. The garden club volunteers plan a craft project for the seniors that is followed by refreshments.

01/16/2026

Susan Nock, proprietor of Thistle, was the presenter at the January 2026 Boxford Village Garden Club meeting. She presented guidelines for container gardening and shared the professional tricks used to develop her award-winning creations. She ended the talk by demonstrating the creation of two containers for indoors.

01/16/2026

At the Boxford Village Garden Club's January 2026 meeting, membership chair Susan Giallombardo introduced two new members.
Photo 1: New member Donna McArdle, mentor Susan Soucy, Susan Giallombardo
Photo 2: Mentor Alex Scott, new member Keya Guimaraes, Susan Giallombardo

01/16/2026

Stephanie deVos created this attractive floral arrangement for the Boxford Village Garden Club's January 2026 meeting. It was so well-designed that the presenter, Susan Nock of Thistle, more than once used it to illustrate design guidelines she and her team follow when creating container gardens for clients.

01/12/2026

This Friday morning, Susan Nock of Thistle Design will present a talk on Container Gardening. Susan will dive into the design rules she follows and the professional tricks she uses to create her award-winning container gardens. She’ll end the talk with a container garden demonstration. Bring your questions and quandaries!

As always, the general public is welcome to sit in on any of our General Meetings. Find our calendar here, https://www.boxfordvillagegardenclub.org/calendar
Meetings begin at around 9:30 with coffee and light refreshments. Our speakers generally begin around 10:30.

Susan Nock, https://www.susannockgardendesign.com/, is an award-winning container garden designer whose work has won Garden Gate Magazine’s 2024 Container Garden Challenge and the “best container gardener” award by the Massachusetts Landscape and Nursery Association in 2022. You can see her work featured in Garden Gate magazine, New England Home magazine, Wellesley Weston Magazine, Gardenista, and other publications. She also writes on garden-related topics and has been published by Fine Gardening Magazine. A frequent presenter on container gardening, Susan has been a featured speaker at the New England Flower Show and has presented and taught workshops to the Cape Cod Landscape Association, the Stevens-Coolidge House (Trustees of Reservations), and multiple garden clubs and horticulture organizations.

12/22/2025

On Friday, December 19th, the Boxford Village Garden Club hosted a monthly gathering at Four Mile Village for over a dozen residents. We had our annual Yankee Swap and refreshments were served.

12/17/2025

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