Meetings and Programs
Thursday, September 1, 2022 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center Retirement Gardening: please join us as our member Nancy Riggs teaches us how to adapt our gardens as we age.
Thursday, October 6, 2022 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center Putting the Garden to Bed: please join us as Suzanne Mahler shares fall gardening activities including cleaning and sharpening of tools, preparing new gardens, transplanting perennials, pruning, planting bulbs and tips for preparing gardens for winter weather.
*Friday, October 14, 2022 from 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M., 1157 Main St., Holden, MA Hendricks’ House Fall Clean-up: please bring rakes, pruning shears, and gloves to help prepare Hendricks’ House gardens for the winter. See you there!
Thursday, November 3, 2022 @ 6:00 P.M. at the Holden Senior Center ****Please note: this is an earlier time than usual****
Thanksgiving Potluck Supper and After-Dinner Lecture—-Spouses Welcome! Please join us for our Annual Potluck Supper, followed by our after-dinner lecture: Lou Greenstein will demonstrate how to construct an edible centerpiece (demonstration only).
Please bring a dish for 8:
A-F Desserts
G-L Salads
M-Z Casseroles
Thursday, December 1, 2022 @ 6:45 P.M. at the Holden Senior Center Holiday Centerpiece Craft: please join us as out longtime Holden Garden Club member, Robin VanLiew will guide each of us in this workshop about refilling our ceramic sleighs from last year with greens and decorations. ****Participants: please bring your own containers please pre-register by emailing Robin Cost is $5.00 for greens and decorations
****Please click on the link below to view our Floral Arranging Tips Document: Document:
Thursday, February 2, 2023 @ 6:45 P.M. at the Holden Senior Center Winter Sowing Native Plants: please join us as Nicole Conza of Ladyfern Farm teaches us about the importance of native plants to native birds and insects. Ms. Conza will also teach us how to make a mini- greenhouse by planting native seeds (provided) in a clear, plastic jug, which we will set outside until spring. Participants should start saving your clear, plastic one-gallon water/milk jugs NOW.
Thursday, March 2, 2023 @ 6:45 P.M. at
****CHANGE OF LOCATION The Holden Light Department 1 Main Street, Holden Gorgeous Gardens of New England: please join us as photographer, gardener and landscape designer Joanne Pearson presents a late-winter slideshow of New England gardens in all their summer glory. This special treat is sure to cheer us up and get us excited for spring!
Thursday, April 6, 2023 @ 6:45 P.M. at the Holden Senior Center We Are One With The Earth: please join us as author, lecturer and Holden Garden Club member Margaret Watson describes the contributions of gardeners Gregor Mendel, Eliza Pinckney and Rachel Carson, who understood our relationship with the natural world and who sought to preserve it in effort to avoid tragic events such as the potato famine in Ireland.
*Friday, April 14, 2023 from 2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M, 1157 Main St., Holden, MA Hendricks’ House Spring Clean-up: please bring rakes, pruning shears, and gloves to help prepare Hendricks’ House to shine for the spring and summer seasons. See you there!
*Friday, May 19, 2023 from 1:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M., Damon House, 1187 Main St., Holden, MA Perennial Plant Sale Prep: please bring your clean, labeled plants to the Damon House (across the street from the Gale Free Library). Help price plants & set up for the following day’s sale.
Note: Plants may also be dropped off Thursday or on Friday morning. Please tuck them against or under the steps of Damon House . Thank you. Members may refer to our Dividing & Potting Tips document for assistance in preparing your potted & labeled plant donations. Thank you.
Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 8:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M., Damon House, 1187 Main St., Holden, MA Perennial Plant Sale: our club’s only fundraiser & best community service. All members are urged to contribute 10 plants (or more) & to share their expertise with our faithful customers by working at the Perennial Plant Sale. See you there!
Note: members may refer to our Dividing & Potting Tips document for assistance in preparing your potted & labeled plant donations. Thank you.
NEW!!!!********Thursday June 22, 2023******** Times & Locations: To Be Announced Members’ Gardens Tour, Annual Luncheon Picnic & Annual Meeting: please join us for a NEW event at which we will combine our Members’ Gardens Tour with our Annual Luncheon Picnic & Annual Meeting.
First, three members (names and locations to be announced) will share their beautiful summer gardens with us. Following our Members’ Gardens Tour, we will enjoy our catered Annual Luncheon Picnic and we will hold our Annual Meeting at the last garden of the Tour. At our Annual Meeting, we will review the highlights of the past year and preview our next program cycle. New officers will be elected. ****Please bring a lawn chair for the Annual Luncheon Picnic and the Annual Meeting**** 
June or July, 2023 from 10:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
Members’ Gardens Tour: three members (names and locations to be announced), will share their beautiful summer gardens with us. Please bring a bag lunch and lawn chair for a meeting at the last garden of the tour. Beverages & dessert will be provided.