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Events
Annual Events
Christmas Boutique | House Tour
| Spring Luncheon
Garden Tour
| Annual Dinner | Other Activities
Christmas Boutique
Salem Garden Club’s annual Christmas Boutique is held the first Saturday and Sunday in December. The Boutique features fresh wreaths, centerpieces, swags, kissing balls, boxwood trees, and a variety of holiday decorations and ornaments. Each item is handmade by the 100 members of the club. The Boutique is a unique event and just the thing to find that something special to trim your own home for the Holidays. The money raised at this event is reinvested into the community through the Salem Garden Club’s civic endeavors.
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House Tour
Salem Garden Club members decorate one of the tour houses on the Christmas in Salem House Tour. We garnish the selected home in accordance with the house’s style and time period. Decorations are handmade by the Garden club members. They consist of fresh greeneries, floral arrangements, tree trimmings, and window dressings that emphasis the elegance and grace of the Historic Salem home.
Spring Luncheon
The Salem Garden Club opened its 2007-2008 programs with a FALL FANTASY luncheon held at the Danversport Yacht Club. The location was perfect, the fare delicious, and our guest speaker Bill Graham, always outstanding. He created gorgeous floral arrangements and complemented them with his latest fall fashion accessories
Garden Tour
The seaside garden tour, held by the Salem Garden Club along with the Women’s Friend Society on a beautiful summer day in July was a huge success. The gardens overlooked the Salem Willows coastline, providing the public view of 17 magnificent private gardens. Included in this tour was the opportunity to visit the former Smith Pool, which is now a State Biology lab and hatchery that has made significant contributions to the economic, environmental and educational interest of both the North Shore and the Commonwealth. Jim McAllister, Salem’s local historian, provided an entertaining talk on the history of the “Willows”. Stay tuned, the SGC is planning another garden tour for 2009.
Annual Dinner
As a special treat, the Salem Garden Club will celebrate this year’s annual dinner at the Salem Country Club on Tuesday, June 2 nd beginning at 6 PM. Bill Graham will be our guest speaker interpreting various pieces of art into beautiful floral arrangements. Guests will be welcome at this very special event.
Other Activities:
Newport Flower Show
On June 27 th, forty seven members of the Salem Garden Club had the opportunity to attend the Newport, RI Flower Show at Rosecliff, a breathtakingly beautiful Newport mansion surrounded by spectacular gardens. Members toured the lovely gardens which included the Gardner’s Marketplace with rare specialty plants, flower stalls, and essential garden accessories. We savored lunch at Fathom’s Restaurant located at the Newport Marriot while enjoying the sensational harbor views. Afterwards, we ventured off to Marble House, a mansion once owned by the Vanderbilt’s. It was a glorious day!
Salem in Spring and Fashion Show
As part of the City’s efforts to promote downtown Salem as a retail, dining and cultural destination, the Salem Garden Club joined forces with Signatures and the Peabody Essex Museum in hosting a fashion show and an art show with floral interpretations done by Garden Club members on Saturday, May 17 th at Olde Town Hall. The weather was perfect and close to 200 women joined us for this special and very successful event. The woman of Salem and surrounding towns promised to join us next year!
