Category Archives: Garden Club

MGC Talk on Attracting Songbirds, 10AM, 10/14 at UCC

Posted on October 1, 2026 | Comments Off on MGC Talk on Attracting Songbirds, 10AM, 10/14 at UCC

From Carol Mills, Publicity Medfield Garden Club –

Attracting Songbirds to your Yard

The Medfield Garden Club will present Lisey Good, former Editor in Chief of the Garden Club of America Magazine on October 14th, 10AM, at the United Church of Christ, 496 Main St., Medfield.  Among many accomplishments, Lisey founded WildCohasset.org to help native plants and the wildlife that depend on them for survival.  Lisey will give a presentation on how to attract, and best support local songbirds while bringing your gardens even more alive. Strategic plant choices in even the tiniest of gardens can greatly help hummingbirds, finches, orioles and more! Doors for non-members will open at 9:50AM. Admission at the door for non-members will be a $5 donation.  Members are free.

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Neal Sanders on Native Plants, 6:30 PM, 9/30 at PSB

Posted on September 24, 2026 | Comments Off on Neal Sanders on Native Plants, 6:30 PM, 9/30 at PSB

From Hilli Passas –

Reclaim Your Roots: How Native Plants Save Time and Money Discover how to identify and safely remove invasive plants, how to find native alternatives to invasives and how replacing lawns and annuals with native perennials can save you time and money. Wednesday, Sept 30th at 6:30pm Medfield Public Safety Building, 112 North Street, Medfield Presented by nationally sought-after speaker, author and Medfield resident, Neal Sanders. Questions? Contact info@sustainablemedfield.org

Medfield Gardner Neal Sanders Talks about Native Plants for Home Landscaping

Do you dream of a profusion of flowering perennials and shrubs in your yard? Sick of watering, raking, weeding?

Please come to Neal Sanders’ presentation “Reclaim Your Roots: How Native Plants Can Save you Money and Time”, Thursday September 30 at 6:30 at the Medfield Public Safety Building, 112 North St.

Local resident and nationally known author, Neal Sanders will present – with a great deal of humor and personal experience– the benefits of using native plants to establish your own show stopping landscape without the heartache.  Discover how to identify and safely remove invasive plants and introduce native perennials that replace water guzzling lawns and thirsty annuals.  He will also stress ‘going native’ is not an all-or-nothing deal – it’s okay to have lawn and non-natives: it’s all about the balance!  And the local neighbors, flora and fauna, will admire your efforts!

This presentation is brought to you by The Medfield Garden Club and SustainableMedfield.  More information can be found at https://tinyurl.com/muynefu6. Questions can be directed to Info@sustainableMedfield.org.

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MGC at Medfield Day

Posted on September 11, 2026 | Comments Off on MGC at Medfield Day

From Carol Mills, Publicity Medfield Garden Club –

Come Meet the Medfield Garden Club on Medfield Day

Visit our booth Medfield Day on the green behind the Unitarian Church. We are raffling off a floral arrangement valued at $70, and handing out free packets of native plant seeds! We are revealing our exciting roster of this years’ speakers,  all of which will be open to the Community. We are a fun group, stop by!

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Stop & Smell the Lilacs – MGC Program at UCC, 10AM, 9/9

Posted on September 7, 2026 | Comments Off on Stop & Smell the Lilacs – MGC Program at UCC, 10AM, 9/9

From Medfield Garden Club member Carol Mills –

Stop and Smell the Lilacs

Stop and Smell the Lilacs: The Medfield Garden Club is pleased to present Senior
Principal Master Gardener Christine Paxhia on Wednesday, September 9 to discuss the
history of lilacs, along with information about lilac growing, propagating, caring, and
more. This visual presentation is filled with photographs of Christine’s personal
collection and local lilacs in bloom. Sit back and enjoy the photographs, and imagine the
sweet fragrance of spring. Christine is the owner of Brush Hill Garden Guru and is
presently the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association Project Manager for the
historic Fletcher Steele Garden, both of which are in Milton.

The presentation will be at the United Church of Christ Medfield, 495 Main St., at
10:00AM. Doors for non-members will open at 9:50AM. Admissions at the door for non-
members will be a $5 donation. Members are free.

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Medfield Garden Club Shares Again

Posted on September 30, 2025 | Comments Off on Medfield Garden Club Shares Again

My thanks to the Medfield Garden Club – and most especially to Loreta Kerrigan, the floral designer – for the lovely floral display I won in their Medfield Day raffle. Thank you also to the Medfield Garden Club and its members for maintaining their many superb garden sites around town.

I added the Medfield Garden Club’s flyer below for those interested in joining.

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MGC’s new website

Posted on October 23, 2019 | Comments Off on MGC’s new website

Would you please let your blog readers know that the Medfield Garden has a new website? Here’s the announcement below from our presidents, Carroll Noel-Mozer and Molly Sliney.

MGC bleeding hearts

 

The Medfield Garden Club is proud to announce the launch of our new website The site, designed by Medfield resident, Diane Borelli, features our club’s history, our annual events and public programming and our four-season civic beautification work welcoming residents and visitors alike as they travel on Medfield’s highways and byways. We are delighted to have the opportunity to share our club’s story with the community on the Medfield Garden Club website. Please visit https://medfieldgardenclub.org/. Enjoy!

 

Carroll Noel-Mozer and Molly Sliney

Co-Presidents, Medfield Garden Club

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Pinky Meader Memorial Garden

Posted on September 9, 2019 | Comments Off on Pinky Meader Memorial Garden

From the new Medfield Garden Club presidents, Molly Sliney and Carroll Noel-Mozer, by courtesy of Michele Feinsilver –

Pinky Meader Memorial Garden Dedicated

On Friday, September 6, the Medfield Garden Club dedicated a new civic planting in Medfield, the Pinky Meader Memorial Garden, affectionately known as Pinky’s Garden. Members of the garden club and Pinky’s family gathered behind the Unitarian Church in Medfield overlooking Meetinghouse Pond and the Dwight Derby House to dedicate the granite-inscribed bench and the new garden to a dear friend, gardening colleague, mentor and long-time Medfield volunteer who passed away and left a deep legacy of horticultural knowledge and civic beautification to the Town of Medfield and members of the Medfield Garden Club.

We invite the community to visit our lovely new site on the Unitarian Church lawn at 26 North Street and to enjoy some repose in one of the most beautiful settings in Medfield.

 

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MGC’s nice thanks

Posted on June 4, 2019 | Comments Off on MGC’s nice thanks

The Board of Selectmen awarded the Medfield Garden Club $2500 towards its work maintaining garden sites around the town, such as the planters in front of the Town House, Meting House Pond, at the Medfield Memorial Library, and at numerous traffic islands.  Just imagine the cost to the town if Medfield instead maintained those sites via DPW employees, like Wellesley for one does.

For extra credit, what flower is depicted on the Medfield Garden Club logo below:

MGC

June 4, 2019

 

Dear Selectmen Marcucci, Murby and Peterson

 

On behalf of the Medfield Garden Club, we would like to thank you for your approval of our request for funding in the amount of $2500 for ongoing maintenance and renovation of our TASC civic beautification sites. Your heartfelt and public praise for our volunteer efforts and your financial support are important incentives for our thirty-three TASC volunteers in twenty-three community sites as we work to create a four-season garden welcome to all who come to Medfield.

 

Thank you so very much from all of us in the Medfield Garden Club.

 

Yours in bloom,

 

Michele Feinsilver Hoye

President, Medfield Garden Club

 

Carroll Noel-Mozer

Incoming President, Medfield Garden Club

 

Molly Sliney

Incoming President, Medfield Garden Club

 

Nancy Tella

TASC Chair, Medfield Garden Club

 

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Garden Club letter to DPW

Posted on October 4, 2018 | Comments Off on Garden Club letter to DPW

MGC

Maurice Goulet

Director of Public Works

Town of Medfield

459 Main Street

Medfield MA 02052

 

Dear Mr. Goulet:

The Medfield Garden Club would like to thank you and the Department of Public Works for all you do in helping us achieve one of the primary missions of our club: the beautification of Medfield’s highways and byways through civic plantings. The DPW crews, under the resourceful and skilled supervision of Bobbie Kennedy, have been instrumental in creating islands and planters, edged, loamed and mulched, into which we put flowers and shrubs, but it’s the structural work that your crews do for us that makes our individual gardens lovely.    Your partnership with our club is much appreciated and the importance of that partnership is evident when residents and visitors alike remark on the beauty of Medfield, its trees, shrubs and flowers, all of which make Medfield, Medfield.

Thank you for the work you do in our TASC sites and thank you for your continued and long-time support of the Medfield Garden Club. We couldn’t do it without you!

Sincerely,

Michele Feinsilver Hoye

President, Medfield Garden Club

 

 

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Medfield Garden Club Holiday Home Sale

Posted on November 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Medfield Garden Club Holiday Home Sale

MGC-Holiday Home Sale 2017

Hello friends and neighbors.

 

The Medfield Garden Club would like to invite you to the 2017 Holiday Home Sale, “Deck the Halls,” on Saturday, December 2 at the Unitarian Church, 26 North Street in Medfield from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The Holiday Home Sale is our biggest fundraiser and this year we’ve created a new fashion forward look for any home decor, inside or out. We’ll still have traditional tabletop and boxwood favorites, but we invite you to experience our beautiful custom wreaths, our welcoming porch and entryway designs and our imaginative arrangements in unusual containers and materials sure to please any decorating taste. 

 

Included in this email is a poster to share. Please tell everyone you know about our sale and please bring family and friends to our event. We want this “new” holiday sale to be a success so the Medfield Garden Club can continue to support its mission of conservation, community beautification and education. 

 

The Medfield Garden Club has an eight-five year history in Medfield. Community support has been the cornerstone of our viability as a non-profit and we thank you for that generous support.

 

In appreciation from the Medfield Garden Club and wishing you the best this holiday season,

 

Michele Feinsilver Hoye

President, Medfield Garden Club

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