Our monthly meetings generally include a speaker and a brief “Horticulture Hint” presentation, many with great handouts, which are available by clicking on the topic in the list below.

• Clematis: Tips for Success by  (Cheryl Monroe, Apr. 2018)
• Companion Planting for Our Gardens and Good Companion Planting for Vegetables and Herbs (Mary Salmon, Mar. 2017)
• Perennial Pairings A trio of complementary fall plants (Jeanne Nevard, Oct. 2016)
• Deadheading Roses (Joan O’Brien, Sept. 2016)
• Fall Gardening Tasks – Root-pruning and renewing shrubs; creating new garden beds (Joan O’Brien, Sept. 2015)
• Controlling Japanese Beetles (Joan O’Brien, Sept. 2014)
• Avoiding Ticks (Anne Krantz, May 2014)
• Growing Tomatoes (Christy Belvin, Apr. 2014)
• Seed Starting Basics (Sheila Steele, Mar. 2014)
• Fertilizing Houseplants (Joan O’Brien, Feb. 2014)
• Tidbits from 2014 Master Gardener Welcome Spring Symposium (Christy Belvin, Apr. 2013)
• Growing Hellebores (Susan Keirstead, 2013)

From time to time, other useful information is also made available to our members and posted here:

• Buddy Planting (courtesy of Norma Weinberg)
• Dahlias and Other Flowering Bulbs (courtesy of Karen Woodbury; presented at Perennials+)
• Horticulture Hint-Perennial Pairings (courtesy of Jeanne Nevard; prepared for the Pepperell Garden Club) – two shade, ground cover plants that display nice fall foliage together. One has a thick, velvety, aromatic leaf, the other an airy, delicate habit.
• Terrarium  Plants List and Care Sheet (courtesy of Art Scarpa)
• Grasses Hints and Tips (courtesy of Bill Holt, Willow Mist)
• Pumpkin Succulent Assembly and Care Instructions (Courtesy of Sue Alger and Deb Ferrelli)
• Water Garden Instructions  [Provided courtesy of Peter Sevier, who notes that although these instructions call for use of a low voltage pump because it was required at his wife’s nursing home where his water garden was installed, generally a standard voltage pump would be used.)