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Celebrated floral designer Jennifer Figge speaks to Boca Grande Garden Club

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BY LAMAR TOOLE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB On Wednesday, March 5, Jennifer Figge, floral designer and owner of Figge Floral Studio in the greater Boston area, shared her eclectic style of her art- and nature-inspired floral design with the Boca Grande Garden Club. She engaged the audience in lively conversation while creating two horizontal table arrangements […]

Renowned plant photographer Laurie Tennent speaks to Garden Club

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BY LAMAR TOOLE, BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB Members of the Boca Grande Garden Club gathered on Feb. 5 in the newly refurbished Community Center Auditorium, where they were treated to a colorful and unique plant and flower presentation by noted photographer and botanical artist Laurie Tennent. Inspired by her photographer dad and her painter mother, […]

Garden: Locally grown flowers give arrangements a TJ McGrath appeal

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BY LAMAR TOOLE New Jersey farmer-grown flowers were in bloom at the Lighthouse United Methodist Church on Wednesday, Jan. 8, offsetting a gray landscape outside. Inside, Boca Grande Garden Club members gathered for their January meeting and welcomed the club’s guest speaker, noted floral designer, TJ McGrath.   TJ, who hosts flower workshops at his […]

Fust Library “Secret Garden” mural completed

Written by Evan Dunbar on . Posted in Community, News.

Artist Larry Anderson has just finished the last part of a mural for the children’s section in the Johann Fust Library loggia area. In 2022, Anderson was hired by the Johann Fust Library Foundation to paint a mural in what they call Alice’s Secret Garden, inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 children’s novel: “The Secret […]

Garden Club final season meeting features talk by landscape restoration specialist Rick Joyce

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Arborist consults with Edison-Ford, Bahamas gov’t  SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB During the 2023-24 season, Boca Grande Garden Club members benefited from horticultural lectures by an impressive lineup of speakers.  Gardening experts from Maine, New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington, DC shared their expertise and personal stories based on colder climes than we experience […]

Classical garden surrounds shed approved by board 

Written by Garland Pollard on . Posted in Breaking News, News.

It was perhaps the briefest of Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board meetings. The Wednesday, March 13 meeting included just one item on the agenda, an accessory building for a garden by applicant Peggy Stanley. Stanley serves on the Board but recused herself from the meeting, to be an applicant herself. Members present included Barbary Wickwire, […]

Garden writer visits Boca Grande 

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BY THE BOCA GRANDE GARDEN CLUB On February 7, the Boca Grande Garden Club welcomed noted garden designer and author Page Dickey to speak on her latest book, Uprooted, A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again, which is part memoir and part garden design. The book is not just for gardeners, but for anyone who has […]

Briefly: Dockside oyster garden assistance

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For residents who have docks or waterfront, Lemon BayWatch Team of Lemon Bay Conservancy is pursuing their goal of improving the water quality of Lemon Bay through the use of vertical oyster gardens. The Lemon BayWatch “Oyster Ambassadors” will be on site at Waterways Paddlesports, 501 W. Dearborn Street, Englewood every Thursday through April, 25, […]