FRAMINGHAM – The Framingham Garden Club plans to stage its first National Garden Club Standard Flower Show in 26 years at Village Hall on the Common, 2 Oak Street, and admission is free.
“Rooted in History and Still Growing” is scheduled to run Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 2 to 4 pm and Thursday, Sept. 17 from 11 am to 6 pm.
The show will feature 48 floral designs created by club members, inspired by important aspects of Framingham’s history, along with more than 100 horticulture exhibits from members’ floral and vegetable gardens.
The designs aim to “honor what made Framingham special in the past and what makes it vibrant today,” the club said in a statement announcing the event.
Subjects are expected to include Christa McAuliffe, Harlem Renaissance sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, and Henry Knox, along with Framingham State University, the Danforth Museum, and the city’s public libraries.
The Framingham History Center and the Danforth Museum are supporting the show.
A National Garden Club Standard Flower Show must include “a minimum of five Horticulture classes and a total of 20 exhibits with no minimum number of exhibits per class,” according to the non-profit National Garden Clubs Inc.
Village Hall is located across from Framingham Centre Common at the corner of Oak and Vernon streets.
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