Meetings and Programs 2025-2026
Welcome to the Meetings & Programs page of the Holden Garden Club website!
Each year, we plan a very informative and enjoyable assortment of lectures and activities with the goal of appealing to the wide variety of horticultural interests of our members. Please feel free to browse the details of this year’s collection below.
If you prefer, you may click on the link below to view a printable summary of our beautiful program booklet for this year’s upcoming activities:
2025-2026 Holden Garden Club Meetings and Programs Booklet
Thursday, September 4, 2025 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center Propagating Perennials: please join us for a lecture presented by Joan Butler, Master Gardener and Horticulturist at Weston Nurseries. Ms. Butler will share techniques for growing perennials from seed and from cuttings in the spring vs. fall seasons, and she will share other topics with us as well.
Thursday, October 2, 2025 @ ****6:45 P.M.,**** at the Holden Senior Center Invasive Plants: we are pleased to welcome Jennifer Forman Orth, Ph.D., Environmental Biologist with the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and the expert on invasive plants in our region. Dr. Orth will present a lecture during which she will help us to identify and to combat the invasive plants which are crowding-out our native species.
Thursday, October 23, 2025 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 P.M., at 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 6, 2025 @ 6:00 P.M. at the Holden Senior Center
****PLEASE NOTE: this is an earlier time than usual**** Harvest Potluck Supper And After Dinner Lecture– Spouses Welcome! Please join us for our Annual Potluck Supper, followed by our after-dinner lecture: Chuck Skillings, president of the Holden Historical Society, will treat us to a slideshow of episodes from Holden’s history.
Please bring a dish for 8:
A-H Casseroles
J-M Desserts
N-Z Salads
Thursday, December 4, 2025 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center Winter Container Gardens For The Holidays: we are pleased to welcome Deborah Nock, an award-winning garden designer who will present a slideshow about winter holiday designs. Ms. Nock will then demonstrate crafting a holiday container that will inspire us to design our own holiday centerpieces using paperwhites, birch, pine cones and many textures of greens.
Thursday, January 8, 2025 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center Rose Bowl Parade Decorating: our Holden Garden Club members Priscilla Chesna and Kathy McFarland will share their wonderful experience of traveling to Pasadena, California and helping to decorate four Tournament of Roses Parade floats with live flowers.
Thursday, February 5, 2026 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center England’s Painswick Rococco Gardens: please join us for Three Centuries of Revelry, Ruin and Restoration with Roger Bridgeman. Mr. Bridgeman will takes us on the journey of revelry, neglect and twentieth century restoration by its current owners, of this fabulous eclectic home and garden in England’s Cotswolds
Note: This meeting will be held via ZOOM if weather is inclement.
Thursday, March 5, 2026 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center Getting To Know You: we are pleased to reserve a special evening of sharing by our members of their outside-of-gardening interests. What else brings joy to you? About what other interests are you passionate? It’s an evening of show and tell!
Thursday, April 2, 2026 @ 6:45 P.M., at the Holden Senior Center Gardening Basics: please join us for a lecture presented by our guest speaker Gretel Anspach, Master Gardener and Trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Ms. Anspach will review some gardening basics for the benefit of our newer members.
Thursday, April 23, 2026 from 2:00 P.M to 4:00 P.M., at 1157 Main St., Holden, MA Hendricks’ House Spring Clean-up: please bring rakes, pruning shears, and gloves to help prepare Hendricks’ House gardens for the summer. See you there!
Friday, May 15, 2026 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 the Damon House or under the steps of the 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 16, 2026 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!
Thursday, June 4, 2026 from 10:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. Members’ Gardens Tour, Annual Luncheon and Annual Meeting:
The locations of this year’s Holden Garden Club Members’ Gardens Tour will be announced at a later date.
This year’s Tour of three member’s gardens will be followed by our open-air Annual Luncheon under tents and our Annual Meeting at noon which be held at: the location for these events will be announced at a later date.
At our Annual Meeting, we will review the highlights of the past year and preview our next program cycle. New officers will be elected.
Cost: $25.00 (to be collected at the final garden of the Tour or paid in advance to the Holden Garden Club Treasurer)
Thursday, August 13, 2026 @ 10:30 A.M., at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill Annual Guided Tour: please join us for a guided tour of these lovely gardens!
