All GCFM 2019-2020 calendar year programs, workshops, horticultural mornings, flower show school, environmental workshops, Wallace lecture, gardening schools, landscape design workshops, landscape and judges council and the annual GCFM meeting on June 3, 2020 are cancelled.
GCFM will be trying to reschedule them and will update on their website accordingly.
UPDATE! NGC Field trip to Federation Garden Club wallack lecture on May 5, 2020 Cancelled
The Garden Club Federation of MA has cancelled the Wallack Lecture at Regis College that was to take place on May 5, 2020.
if you have signed up directly with the Nahant Garden Club Kim Edwards will forward your refund to you accordingly.
Update! GCFM (Garden Club Federation Of MA) all programs CANCELLED for the month of March 2020
The Garden Club Federation of MA has cancelled all programs and workshops for the rest of the month of March 2020 due to the developments of MA declaration of a State if Emergency and The Who declaration of a global pandemic.
For more information /updates please refer to their website https//www.gcfm.com
Update! NGC joint Field Trip with the Nahant Sr center- may4, 2020 CANCELLED to MFA Art In Bloom
The MFA has cancelled Art in Bloom for 2020 due to the Coronavirus and will back in 2021.
For more information visit
Update! NGC March 26, 2020 Meeting - Cancelled
The NGC meeting has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
NGC Tides Fund Raiser February 20, 2020
Thanks to all who came out to support our annual fundraiser at the Tides. Special thanks to Liz Hall for chairing this event and making all the raffle prizes look very fun!
Here's who donated and who won the evening's wonderful prizes.
1. Pamper Yourself Spa Basket by Barbara Ducharme - Won by Pam George
2. Warwick Cinema 2 pack by Warwick Cinema - Won by Braydon
3. Warwick Cinema 4 pack by Warwick Cinema - Won by Maria Flanagan
4. Garden Essentials Basket donated by NGC - Won by Margaret Blank 5. Arranging Essential Basket donated by NGC - Won by Lissa Stempek
6. Dunkin' Donuts Basket donated by Liz Hall - Won by Wendy Payne
7. Beauty Queen Basket donated by Mr. Jerry - Won by Marina Maddock
8. $50 Hardcover Gift Card donated by Peggy Curran with wine and wine glasses donated by Liz Hall - Maria Flanagan
9. Lucky Lottery Tickets donated by Joanne Bryanos - Won by Margie Parisi
10. Graphic Design on Canvas donated by Peg Curran - Won by Scott Holmes
11. 2 sets of Handmade Art Cards donated by Joanne Caputo-Carfagna (Jacy Designs) - Won by Suzanne Hamill and Edie Hunnewell 12. 2 sets of Shell Weaths made by Kim Edwards- Won by Lissa Stempek and Gretchen Brien
13. Beveled Glass Paperweight donated by Edie Hunnewell (made by Elliott Hunnewell) - Won by Mary Jane English 14. $100 Elements Gift Card donated by Olivia Brand - Won by Kim Edwards
15. Tickets to North Shore Music Theatre by NSMT - Won by Margie Parisi
16. Tulips donated by Nancy Whitman - Won by Mo Edison
Thanks again to all who came out and supported this event. We will let you know how much was raised when we receive check from the Tides. Many thanks to the Tides too!
The Nahant Garden Club
INVITATION to NGC from SWIM
Apr 14, 2020 Thursday 7 p.m.
Butterfly and Earth Day Talk
@ The Nahant Public Library, 340 Nahant St., Nahant
SWIM and the Nahant Public Library’s herbarium and nature program has put together a Butterfly Talk with Scott Santino, a Naturalist at the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary in Ipswich, MA. He has been leading programs for MASS Audubon since 1999, ked natural history tours locally, around New England and the East Coast, as well as to other national and international destinations for Mass Audubon. Topics about which he especially enjoys teaching include birds, butterflies, vernal pools, mammal tracking and the ecology of the Ipswich River.
Federation Lecture Flower Arranging - May 5, 2020 "EnchantedF(L)orest"
If you would like to attend please email NGC Program Chair Kim Edwards ASAP.
Send check to: Kim Edwards (address in NGC Membership Yearbook)
Make Check payable to: GCFM for $20.00
Reminder Donations NGC Tides Fund Raiser
Donation Extended to Feb 17, 2020
Federation - Flower Show School Course II - April 14-16, 2020
THE GARDEN CLUB FEDERATION OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC.
FLOWER SHOW SCHOOL COURSE II
Growing, Staging, Exhibiting and Judging
April 14-16, 2020
For Additional information and registration form click here.