Upcoming Events

2025-2026

September 9, 2025 10:00 AM

Mount Auburn Cemetery Walking Tour   Mount Auburn Cemetery, founded in 1831, is a place of inspiration, beauty, and comfort. It is also a place to commune with nature, explore the landscape, and visit the graves of notable people. The 90-minute guided tour will include history, art, architecture, as well as horticulture.

October 14, 2025 10:00 AM

Arnold Arboretum Walking Tour The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is a living museum.” This guided walking tour will explore a fraction of the 281 acres containing one of the world’s most comprehensive and best documented collections of temperate woody plants, with particular focus on the floras of North America and eastern Asia.

November 18, 2025 10:00 AM

Gardening with Fungi 

Mycology expert Jana Harris of Essex Forays will explore fungi and their vital roles in garden ecosystems.  Learn how to support beneficial mushrooms and mycelium, foster relationships with native plants, and enhance soil health.  Jana will cover common New England garden fungi, offer practical tips for promoting fungal diversity and discuss edible mushroom cultivation.  

Joint meeting with Chestnut Hill Garden Club 

Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill

December 9, 2025 10:00 AM

Social and Craft Projects

Decoupage pots, Pressed flower art. At same location or another if enough Interest Wreath Making Workshop with Jessica Pohl from A Natural Arrangement.

Pay out of Pocket $70 pp minimum 8 people. 

January 13, 2026.  10:00 AM

Zoom talk on Edible Native Plant Species

Focusing on species members might like to plant in their own yard. Russ Cohen is the area’s leading wild edibles expert, and has led weekend and seasonal walks throughout Massachusetts and New England for 45 years.

February 10 10:00 AM

TBD Zoom

March 10 Tuesday 10:00 AM

TBD In Person talk 

April 14, 2026  10:00 AM

“The Fascinating Story of Where Our Vegetables Came  From”   

Bonnie Power- Massachusetts Master Gardener holds a Bachelors and Master’s Degree in Zoology.  Bonne will tell the story of 15 common vegetables and 2 fruits, where they grew first and what they probably looked like originally. Bonnie is an organic gardener and grows a variety of vegetables and ornamentals with a bias for natives.

Latvian Lutheran Church, Brookline

May 12, 2026   11:00 AM   Annual Meeting

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Past Events

2024-2025

Tour of the Garden at Elm Bank. The Mass Horticultural Society Garden at Elm Bank features both traditional and modern gardening styles. 

Franklin Park Zoo, a cherished institution to learn about new horticultural and sustainable environmental practices at the zoo. Joshua Meyer, the head of Horticulture at Zoo New England, will speak to us as we tour.

Muddy River Executive Director Matt Eddy will provide a history of the work and the vision for what might come next.

The Garden Club of Brookline is hosting the Plant Mobile at each of the public library branches.

A Zoom lecture by Ila Cox, in collaboration with the Junior League of Boston Garden Club. 

A Zoom lecture by a science historian on 18th and 19th century naturalists.

Jana Milbocker will take us on a virtual tour of 15 quite different gardens in Scotland - castles and historic estate properties to botanic gardens and intimate private Edens.

A speaker from the Charles River Conservancy will take us through the history, biodiversity and stewardship of the Charles River and its parks.   

2023-2024

Morning Stroll through the Boston Public Garden

Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary Tour

Lecture on PFAS from a Gardener’s Perspective presented by Heidi Pickard

Community event with donations to the Brookline Public Library for the purchase of garden-related books and a talk by Amanda Hirst, Director of Libraries for the Town of Brookline

Lecture on Lawns and Lawn Alternatives by Gretel Anspach, a Trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Lifetime Master Gardener, and a recently-retired systems engineer for Raytheon

Virtual tour of Gorgeous Gardens of New England presented by Joanne Pearson, a former landscape architect turned professional photographer

Author Marta MacDowell on her recent book Gardening Can Be Murder

A lecture on Gardening with Dahlias presented by Betsy Szymczak

2022-2023

Walk through of the Fenway including the Kelliher Rose Garden and the Community gardens

 Allandale Farm Tour and talk

“Gardening in a Changing Climate” with Michele Schukel (Natural Selections)

Community Event with donations to the Brookline Food Bank and a talk by Arielle Chernin (Operations Manager of the Food Bank)

Virtual Tour of Florida Gardens with Jana Milbocker (garden designer and owner of Enchanted Garden)

Virtual Tour of the Floral World of Japan with Lisa Oberholzer-Gee

Lecture on the history and operations of Little Leaf Farms in Devens MA with Chris Sellew (Sales Manager)

Lecture on the urban canopy of Boston with David Meschoulan (Co-founder and Director of Speak for the Trees)Past Events 2022

2021-2022

Alexandra Vecchio, Brookline’s Director of Parks & Open Space

“The Birth of the American Home Gardening Movement” with Jane Roy Brown

Program on the New Garden Society led by Erin Spinosa

Terrarium gardening workshop led by Kris Bowden and Emilie Kendall

Lecture by Deborah Chud on Piet Oudolf

Lecture on Roses with Mike and Angie Chute of Rose Solutions

Demonstration - Inviting Spring with Early Spring Containers with the Junior League Garden Club

Lecture on the Urban Farming Institute by Executive Director Patrica Spence

2020-2021

“Tree Architecture And Adaptive Growth” by Peter Del Tredici (Senior Research Scientist Emeritus, Arnold Arboretum) 

“Inviting a little wilderness into your Garden” by Uli Lorimer (Director of Horticulture, Native Plant Trust)

Artists Gardens by Jana Millbocker (Garden designer and owner of Enchanted Garden)

Edible Landscapes/Heirloom Gardens by John Forti (Executive Director of Bedrock Gardens)

“Lars Anderson Gilded Age” by Stephen Moskey (Author)

Ladies of the Club by Allyson Hayward

2019-2020

Art in Bloom Museum of Fine Arts Tour

“American’s Romance with the English Garden” by Tom Mickey

“Climate Change “C-Change”” Conversation with Chestnut Hill Garden Club

Holiday Wreath and Greens Arrangement Workshop by Sarah Mitchell

Fall Gardening Tips by Hannah Trajish

Brookline Park Projects and Reservoir Preview by Erin Gallentine

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Tour by Allan Banks

2018-2019

Farm Tour at Allandale Farm in Chestnut Hill

Tour of Dana Greenhouse at the Arnold Arboretum

Hudson Valley Seed Company Lecture by Ken Greene Lecture

“Sustaining the Monarch Butterfly” Lecture by Katie Banks Hone

Tour of Tower Hill Gardens in Boylston, MA

Ikebana Workshop

New England Food System-Andy Kendall Lecture

Other Past Events…

Fisher Hill Reservoir Park Tour

Arctic Flower Travelogue Lecture

“Caterpillars as Horticulturalists” by The Caterpillar Lab

“The History of the Tulip” Lecture by Ila Cox

Container Gardening Workshop by the Captured Garden

Tour and History of the Frederick Law Olmsted Historic Site