The Garden Club of Hingham

Garden Club Plant Sale
2026-05-31 08:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Hingham Common, 2 Middle Street, Hingham, 02043

The Mistletoe Market
2025-12-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Second Parish Church, 685 Main Street, Hingham, MA, 02043, United States
Create, make merry, and bid on gorgeous holiday décor items made by your fellow Garden Club members. Bring your friends and family to this interactive winter FUNraiser! Design and donate holiday arrangements for the silent auction or harvest and contribute holiday greenery bundles
from your garden.
Ways you might contribute:
• Find an inspired container and design a tabletop display or bulb centerpiece.
• Dream up and create a wreath or swag.
• Gather greenery cuttings, winter berries, dried seed pods, and flowers for the Holiday Boughs Booth.
This silent auction social is a fun way to jump start your holiday decorating, socialize, and appreciate our talented Club members!

Halloween Garden Therapy
2025-10-22 10:30 - 12:30 | Allerton House, 15 Condito Road, Hingham, 02043, United States
Members of the Garden Club will assist Allerton residents in making colorful Halloween arrangements. Setting up, collaborating with the residents, and cleaning up will take approximately 2 hours. All the supplies will be provided.

Centennial Garden Tour
2024-06-09
The Garden Tour will feature beautiful gardens that have been on tour before and some that will be shown for the first time. Tour patrons will visit different Hingham neighborhoods that showcase how Hingham has changed and yet stayed the same over the last 100 years as a residential suburb.

Spring Floral Design
2024-05-15 10:00 | Second Parish Church, 685 Main Street, Hingham, MA, 02043, United States
Sarah Boynton and Ellen Garrow
Back by popular demand, Garden Club members Sarah Boynton and Ellen Garrow will share their talent and inspiration as they lead us through a captivating demonstration of creative floral design for spring. As they work their magic creating a series of unique arrangements, everyone will learn about key mechanics, the latest and tried and true materials and tools, techniques for conditioning, and more.
Sarah is a passionate flower show competitor, specializing in botanical arts and traditional flower designs. She has earned top honors in flower shows both nationally and internationally.

Art in Bloom
2024-04-26 - 2024-04-28 | Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Celebrate the return of spring with Art in Bloom, the Museum of Fine Arts’ annual festival of fine art and flowers. Come and enjoy exquisite art from across the MFA’s collection paired with magnificent floral interpretations created by New England-area garden clubs. Professional designers delight with creative designs in Museum entrances and public spaces. Daily events include tours of flower arrangements throughout the galleries; demonstrations of floral arranging for your home; casual dining among masterpieces; and outdoor walking tours.

Get Acquainted with the art of Ikenobo Ikebana
2024-04-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Second Parish Church, 685 Main Street, Hingham, MA, 02043, United States
Mimi Santini-Ritt, Level 14 Professor of Ikebana
Welcome spring by learning about the Japanese art of flower arranging, Ikebana, with Mimi Santini-Ritt. Mimi will design between five and seven inspiring arrangements while sharing her in-depth knowledge of Ikenobo (the oldest school of Japanese flower arranging) and Ikebana.
Mimi Santini-Ritt has studied Ikenobo extensively in both the U.S. and in Japan for over 20 years. In February, 2020 she completed the Kyoyoka–a course of studies at the Ikenobo Central Training Institute in Kyoto and is currently enrolled in Kyoyoka-B. Mimi teaches, exhibits and demonstrates the art of Japanese flower arranging throughout the greater Boston area. She is a past president of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of Boston. When not practicing Ikenobo, Mimi can often be found at the Museum of Fine Arts, where she does volunteer work in Egyptian Storage and Conservation.

Growing Your Own Cutting Garden, Tips and Tricks for Growing and Dividing Dahlias
2024-03-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Second Parish Church, 685 Main Street, Hingham, MA, 02043, United States
Lisa Berkin, owner, Lisa Berkin Designs and Berkin Farms
Lisa, a longtime Garden Club of Hingham member, will show us the latest methods for successfully growing our own cutting gardens using organic practices and principles of succession planting. We will learn how these techniques help produce blooms all season and create an environment that attracts beneficial insects and a wider variety of birds. Lisa will also share tips and tricks for growing dahlias and storing, dividing, and maintaining tubers for year after year enjoyment.
Since 2004, Lisa Berkin Designs has spread the beauty of lush florals across Hingham and its surrounding areas through meticulously crafted container gardens and floral designs.
Lisa Berkin Designs has expanded into the sustainable, low-till regenerative flower farming space at Berkin Farms in Hingham, where beautiful specialty flowers and native Northeastern varieties are available three seasons per year.

Invasive Plant Management
2024-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Erik Sechler, Ecological Programs Coordinator, Native Plant Trust
Erik will give a presentation on invasive plant management, which will include early detection of invasive plants and invasive plant species most likely to move into New England within the next 10 years.
Prior to joining Native Plant Trust, Erik worked with the Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program as an ecological information specialist and county inventory ecologist, and with the New York Natural Heritage Program as an ecologist specializing in natural community ecology, avian habitat ecology and vegetation mapping. He has more than 10 years of experience working for a Natural Heritage Program and NatureServe as an ecologist and has also worked with Manomet and The Trustees of Reservations on Martha’s Vineyard.

Garden Therapy
2024-02-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Allerton House, 15 Condito Road, Hingham, 02043, United States
Garden Club Members will visit Allerton House and assist residents to make a festive Valentine’s Day arrangement. Please bring shears or scissors. Arranging and clean-up usually lasts 1-2 hours.

Christmas at Blithewold
2023-12-13 09:00 - 15:00 | Blithwold Mansion, 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, RI, United States
Please join us for a festive journey to Blithewold Mansion in Bristol, Rhode Island to celebrate the holidays! Enjoy Christmas tea and tour the beautifully decorated rooms and gardens of an historic home. This year’s theme is “All About Augustine”. (Please see website link for more detail). The cost of the trip includes tea and tour, $56 per person. Plan on being on site for about 3 hours. The travel time to Bristol from Hingham is about 1 hour 15 minutes. Carpools will depart Resurrection Church at 9:15 a.m. and the tour will begin at 11:00 a.m. followed by tea at 1:00 p.m.

Shade Gardening
2023-11-15 10:00 | Hingham Public Library, 66 Leavitt St, Hingham, 02043
With Sue DuBrava and Chuck Doughty, owners of Cochato Nurseries, horticulturists, and rare and unique plant enthusiasts
In the early 1990’s Chuck Doughty and Sue DuBrava purchased five acres of land to develop a nursery. Fast forward to today, Cochato Nurseries has been written up in many gardening magazines and books as a “must-see” destination. Their nursery offers beautiful display gardens with a wisteria covered pergola, a koi pond, waterfall and many very interesting and beautiful plant specimens—including a wide array of shade-loving plants.
Chuck and Sue will discuss the unique trees, shrubs and perennials they work with daily and describe how to create a beautiful garden of any size that is suited to shade.
Chuck recently retired from Northeastern University where he developed an Arboretum at the main campus in Boston. Chuck is also a member of the Horticultural Club of Boston, as well as the American Hosta Society, The New England Hosta Society, The Rock Garden Club and American Conifer Society. Being an avid photographer, he has traveled to the Rio Negro in the Amazon 9 times, Cuba twice, as well as to Iceland and Sicily.

GCFM Floral Design Workshop Color—Using it Well
2023-11-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Saint Susanna Church, 262 Needham Street, Dedham, MA, United States
What is the first thing that catches your eye in a floral arrangement? Color, of course! This workshop will explore different color schemes—analogous, complementary, and triadic–to illustrate how to combine colors to create harmonious combinations. Ruth Evans, flower show judge and winner of numerous flower show awards, will teach this class. The workshop includes instruction and floral materials to create your arrangement.
Cost: $55 until October 20; after that date the cost is $60, so please sign up early. Attendance is limited to 50.
To register please mail your check, made out to Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc., along with your name, garden club (if you are a member), and email address to Margo Yie, 6 Dancer Farm Drive, Dover, MA 02030

Field Trip
2022-10-05 | Bedrock Gardens, Lee, New Hampshire
