Members planted along the Watertown, Cambridge Greenway Ramp. The Greenway could be an important part of a pollinator pathway linking sites like Mt. Auburn Cemetery to Fresh Pond Reservation.

Members ventured out to Carlisle, MA to visit the beautiful Joe Pye Weed garden, a mail order plant nursery specializing in Siberian Irises, Species Irises, and Interspecies hybrids.

After CP&GC member Renata von Tscharner founded Charles River Conservancy in 2000, the Conservancy continues to thrive under a new director. CP&GC has collaborated on multiple projects with the Conservancy, most recently at Hell’s Half Acre to reclaim the river bank.

CP&GC has long worked at the site of the second oldest house in Cambridge. Donating and planting trees, renovating the Colonial Revival fence and gate, planting thousands of spring bulbs, managing lawn care, completing myriad clean ups among many other contributions.

Cooper-Frost-Austin House is the oldest documented house in Cambridge and owned by Historic New England. A propaated clone of the “Longfellow Linden” was planted there by CP&GC.

On The Rise is a day program in mid-Cambridge that provides safety, community, and advocacy for homeless and formerly homeless women.

The Cambridge Community Center has been serving children, youth, and families throughout Cambridge for over 90 years. This is a long-time project for CP&GC.

Blair Pond is a one-acre clay pit dug tucked in a seven-acre reservation. Now part of the DCR’s Alewife Reservation, CP&GC partnered with the small but mighty Friends of Blair Pond and the DCR to develop a plant survey and planting plan for the site.

The Cambridge Common is a central component of busy Harvard Square, and its 16 acres are traversed by an estimated 10,000+ pedestrians and cyclists daily. This urban green space is a National Historic Landmark where George Washington took command of the Continental Army.

In 2009, city officials joined with West Cambridge neighbors and CP&GC to dedicate and reopen Craigie Street Park.

Since the 1950s, CP&GC has worked to preserve the last remaining piece of marsh in the Charles River Basin, Hell’s Half Acre, which is now 7-1/2 acres of urban wildland administered by the DCR.

In the ’70s, two activist members proposed and established the Cambridge Committee on Public Planting to advise and support the city in improving public planting. Expertise of club members is a significant resource as the City maintains existing public plantings and considers new ones.

Along with other organizations, CP&GC was instrumental in the completion of a $1.4 million project to restore and improve access at Lowell Memorial Park in Cambridge.

Several members of the Cambridge Plant and Garden Club recently spent a morning in a first effort to begin monitoring the health of newly planted trees on behalf of the city.

For a fourth year, Cambridge Plant & Garden Club offered native plants for sale in collaboration with students from the local, public Cambridge high school—Cambridge Rindge & Latin.

More than 1200 bulbs were planted around Cambridge this Fall in a great partnership with the City.

A productive visit to the Mycoterra Farm and the Smith College Botanical Garden led to members growing their own mushroom kits.

CP&GC has been an avid advocate for keeping the iconic London Plane trees as the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) plans to refresh a one-mile stretch of Memorial Drive.

Discover Cambridge Pocket Parks is a publication of the Cambridge Plant & Garden Club in cooperation with the City of Cambridge.  For the first time 21 small “pocket parks” scattered through the City of Cambridge are identified and celebrated. 

CP&GC has been greatly enriched by its association with Ekua Holmes, a Boston-based mixed-media artist and children’s book illustrator. This spring, CP&GC was pleased to be able to honor Ms. Holmes with a Garden Club of America Commendation for Civic Improvement.