September 18, 2024

Garden for the Senses

Kelly Orzel

Want to know how to turn a charming garden into a breathtaking garden? Simple. An extraordinary garden engages all of your senses. The smallest things can transport us back to another place and time. Learn how to create a beautiful and stimulating garden in your own backyard that will tickle all five of the senses.

Inspired by her love of green things, Kelly Orzel is a horticulturist, Master Gardener and freelance writer, photographer and speaker.  

October 16, 2024

History of the Warner House and Gardens

Stephanie Hewson

Stephanie Hewson is the site manager of the Warner House.  She’s a fan of history and historic house museums and has previously worked at the Moffat-Ladd House and Garden and the American Independence Museum.  

November 20, 2024

Dig into Dahlias

Jess Cinq-Mars

Omniflora Farm was established in 2017 to fill a growing need for seasonal, exceptional, and sustainable blooms and service for the local communities. Their formative years brought challenges and opportunities aplenty, and on the heels of a total farm move, they chose to distill their focus to dahlias. These unique, complex, and magnificent blooms are a stark reminder of both literal growth cycles as well as the incredible power of connections within us and between us. Peek into their world and discover why we fall in love with dahlias time and time again.

December 11, 2024

Holiday Luncheon 

11:30

Wentworth by the Sea Country Club

(Members only)

January 15, 2025

What’s New for 2025 Annuals

For anyone who is already thinking about their spring gardening, Linda Zukas will give a sneak peak to the new annuals that will be introduced this year.

Special Program 

Creating a Pollinator Friendly Yard

Saturday, February 8 10:00 - 11:00 

Pollinator Pathways NH will demonstrate how to attract pollinators to your yard. Pollinator Pathways NH is a community effort to restore habitat one yard at a time. This presentation will show us how we can provide a diversity of flowers, shrubs, and trees that bloom from early spring to late fall that will help support a diversity of pollinators. 

The Portsmouth Garden Club will also announce their new mini-grant program designed to support Seacoast gardeners who would like to make their yards more pollinator-friendly.  Come learn how easy it is for you to help the environment.

February 19, 2025

Pruning

Chris Barboza

Chris Barboza is the Owner/Operator of Northeast Nursery in Peabody, MA. He has extensive knowledge of gardening and specifically pruning. 

March 19, 2025

Secrets to a Successful Cutting Garden

Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown is a Maine master gardener and cut flower grower in York, Maine.  She also works as the resident gardener at the Cliff House, Maine and provides beginner garden classes in person and online.

April 16, 2025

Three Seasons of Outrageous Color from Perennials

Kerry Ann Mendez

In conjunction with the Great Island Garden Club

Discover spectacular perennials for sun and shade that will brighten your landscape from spring through fall. As one perennial stops blooming, it ‘passes the baton’ to the next ‘winner’. Helpful garden care tips and shortcuts to maximize color and reduce maintenance will also be covered.

Kerry Ann Mendez is an award-winning garden educator, author, design consultant, and proprietor of Perennially Yours based in southern Maine.

May 21, 2025

Art in Bloom

Members create floral arrangements to represent pieces of art and explain their inspiration, interpretation, and methodology  

June 18, 2025

Plant Swap and Potluck Picnic

 (Members only)

Dan Robarts, PhD, Horticulturalist  Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens,

September 16, 2020