The Boulevard Gardening Club Executive Committee will meet at the home of President Monika Kapousouz on 7-1-2025 from 7:15- 8:30 pm at 657 Cobb Street, Athens, GA.

Boulevard Gardening Club members are invited to attend a special Mother’s Day event.

Saturday, May 10, 2025 from 10 am - noon at Athentic Brewing Company (108 Park Avenue).

For this event, we are requesting members to donate cut flowers from their gardens which later will be incorporated into the arrangements we will make. Flowers are to be dropped at Athentic Brewing Company between 9-9:30 am on the same day. WE will have bud vases available but if you have one you’d like to use or give away, you are welcome to bring it. We encourage recycled or thrifted vases and we will also have plenty to share. We’d also like to use this event as an opportunity to share the joy of flowers with our friends and neighbors. Each attending member is welcome to bring one guest: a child or adult who would like to make an arrangement for their mom or loved one. If you’d like to invite more than one person, please make sure another member gives you their one guest pass. The guest passes were emailed to members on 4/27/2025.

The Boulevard Gardening Club Executive Committee will meet on May 5, 2025 from 7:15-8:45 pm at the home of the new 2025-2026 President, Monika Kapousouz at 657 Cobb Street, Athens, GA, 30606.

Roving Garden Party tickets are now available to purchase on-line at via credit card or PayPal. Enjoy drinks and finger food while viewing five beautiful gardens on Sunday, March 23rd. There is an event ticket limit. The event sold out last year prior to the tour. Check in is from 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm and the tour goes from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Member tickets are $25 each and Non-Member tickets are $30 each.

The January 6, 2025 Executive Committee meeting will meet at the home of Maureen O’Brien located at 185 Matthews Avenue, Athens, GA 30606.

R&R Secret Flowers

919 Chase Street Athens, GA 30601

BGC Members are invited to attend a flower arranging & drying workshop hosted by R&R Secret Flowers. Thank you to our hosts R&R Secret Flowers!

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What?  Fall Gardening & Flower Arranging

When?  September 16, 2024 from 6-8 pm

Where?  R&R Secret Flowers, 919 North Chase Steet Athens, GA 30601

Rita of R&R Secret Flowers will discuss fall gardening, drying flowers and end with demonstrating flower arranging.  If interested, in the last hour you can create your own flower arrangement.  Bring a small vase, your clippers, flowers, and greenery.  There will also be beautiful bunches of flowers you can purchase for $10-12 dollars a bunch. 

Night Special:  Rita will offer us a 10% discount on everything in her store.

Parking is very limited at R&R.  Please park along Nantahala Avenue or in the old Heirloom parking lot. 

Please sign-up to attend the R&R Secret Flowers event: Secret Flowers RSVP Form

Please sign-up to bring food to the R&R Secret Flowers event: Secret Flowers Food Signup form

Keith Delaplane is a professor at the University of Georgia where he has responsibilities in research, graduate student advisement, and public outreach in pollinator management, social evolution, pathology, and conservation.

Bi-monthly

Monarch Butterflies and how plants impact pollination in on our gardens. Our presenter, Ania Majewska, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. Her passion and curiosity about nature led her to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Biology, a master’s in Wildlife Biology, and later a Ph.D. in Ecology. Her Ph.D. research focused on understanding how the decisions we make in gardens, in terms of plant selection and management, can benefit or harm insect pollinators. Additionally, she studied how non-native milkweeds impact monarch butterfly biology and the incidence of disease in monarchs. 

Bi-monthly

Please join us for a Holiday Celebration
at the home of June Ball
445 N. Pope Street
Athens, Georgia

Sunday, December 17 from 4:30-6:30 PM

Please click on the link below to RSVP & sign up to bring a dish : BYOB

* Please park in the Silver & Archibald parking lot next door to June’s house

Please join us for our October
Boulevard Gardening Club Meeting

Thursday, October 12, 2023
at the garden of
Juana Gnecco and Emuel Aldridge

410 King Ave : Athens, GA
7:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Speaker, Kaitlin Swiantek

UGA Master student Kaitlin Swiantek talk is titled

 New Flowers Just for Fancy? 

Do new fancy flowering cultivars do as good a job as species plants in supporting pollinators? Come talk to a UGA researcher who is investigating this issue.

Finger food snacks and desserts are welcome. The club will provide hot drinks, water, ice, and paper goods.

• • • • • Please park on Belvoir Heights or Mathews Ave • • • • •

This is an outdoor event. Rain cancels.

SAVE THE DATE!

Please join us for a Harvest Party
Thursday, September 14th at 6:00 PM
at the home of
Maureen O’Brien & George Wright
185 Matthews Ave, Athens, GA

Bring a dish to share and any gardening questions that other members may be able to answer. Our guest will be Gary Crider, a specialist in eradicating invasive plants.

RSVP 706-254-8685

Parking is limited so walking, carpooling, or biking is encouraged.

Now is the time of year to divide and share the joy of too many plants! Join us for a plant swap and gardening conversation. Bring plants, seeds, and extra garden equipment if you have them. We hope you’ll leave with some new additions for your garden.

We’ll be set up in the parking lot at 890 Boulevard Ave (accessible via Hiawassee Ave; rear of the church) for the swap.

You can drop off plants between 8:30-9:45 on the day of the swap or if you want to donate but can’t be there Saturday morning, you can drop plants, seeds, or equipment in the back of Mark Johnson’s pickup truck at 185 Hiawassee Ave on Thursday, April 20th or Friday, April 21st.

Questions? Send an email to boulevardgardeningclub@gmail.com or call Maureen O’Brien at 706-254-8685.

Would you like to help with the plant swap? Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/53s43stw