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