Welcome
Acton Garden Club Plant Sale 2024
Eighty-six years after its inception, the Acton Garden Club continues to follow the traditions and goals of its founding members and adhere to its original purpose: To promote a greater interest in gardening and to share experiences that shall be of mutual benefit.
NEWS AND EVENTS
The Acton Garden Club Annual Plant Sale has been canceled for 2021.
This year the Club is holding a members-only and friends of members plant sale. If you know an Acton Garden Club member, contact them about how to participate in this sale.
Acton Garden Club Participating in Art in Bloom at the MFA.
Maureen Christmas will be representing the Acton Garden Club in the 2021 Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Acton Garden Club’s entry will appear in the tour “Women Through Times: Grace and Power.” Contact the MFA for more information.
The Acton Garden Club shares its love of gardening and civic pride by maintaining three historic gardens in the Town. There are also seasonal plantings done each year that are provided and maintained throughout Acton by the Club.
The Acton Arboretum Herb Garden
The Acton Arboretum Herb Garden, located in the Acton Arboretum, is built in a stone foundation from a home built in the 1730’s. This particular garden was established on this location in 1989, and the design and plantings were largely executed by members of the Acton Garden Club to reflect a typical colonial dooryard garden.
Meeting House Hill – Wildflower Garden
Meeting House Hill – Wildflower Garden remains little known in our Town. Recaptured from an area that was once the school’s ash pile, the soil has been improved over many years with compost and with paths covered with mulch. The garden is separated into beds and each one has a different focus. The garden evolves from one season into the other.
Meeting House Hill – Daffodil Run
Meeting House Hill – Daffodil Run is located on the embankment along Main Street near Nagog Hill Road. Daffodil Run is the more visible garden on Meeting House Hill. This historically sited garden displays massive plantings of daffodils, forsythias and daylilies, with flowering shrubs in the upper garden area.
Four seasonal plantings are provided and maintained by the Club throughout Acton each year. These include the troughs in both Acton Center and West Acton, the containers in memory of Timothy Harrigan along Massachusetts Avenue in West Acton, the containers at the Citizen’s Library, the containers at the Acton Center Fire Station, and the containers at the Public Safety Facility.