On Friday, November 7, 2025, Michael Derouin, nationally recognized floral designer and educator, will demonstrate how variation in structure, rhythm, and placement can yield entirely different outcomes from the same botanical elements. Michael will introduce the audience to essential mechanics and foundational design principles—discovering how restraint, clarity, and thoughtful composition can quietly transform a space.

Michael Derouin is a floral artist and educator with a career shaped by decades in luxury floral design. He creates refined floral compositions for private clients, and offers thoughtful, hands-on instruction to floral professionals and enthusiasts alike—helping to define, refine, or rediscover their creative perspective. Whether designing or teaching, his focus is the same: to create an experience that remains long after the flowers fade. 

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The meeting will be held at Father Haley Hall, St. Mary’s Church in Holliston. Doors will open at 6:15 pm with refreshments and time to review the many raffle items available. 

Tickets for this event are available from garden club members, or on our website. Tickets are $20.00 in advance or $25 at the door.

The Holliston Garden Club has been planting a tree on Arbor Day for many years. This years tree is a Red Sunset Maple donated to the Holliston Rail Trail by the Holliston Garden Club. An Arbor Day Celebration took place at Cross St. on Sunday 4/27. We talked about the significance of Arbor Day and when it started in Nebraska in 1872 by Julius Sterling Morton. 

This year The Holliston Garden club sponsored Girl Scout troop 64082 for the Smokey Bear Poster contest,  run by the Garden Club Federation of MA. & the MA Department of Conservation and Recreation. Pictures of these posters were put on display at the Holliston Library by the garden club. At the Arbor Day ceremony the Troop was introduced by their leader and the girls read an Arbor Day poem.  We all sang God Bless America and closed with a toast with water to our newly planted tree.

Due to the weather forecast for Saturday, the Arbor Day Celebration has been rescheduled for Sunday, April 27th at 1:00 pm at the Cross Street Trailhead.

The Garden Club is planting a Red Maple this year on the Rail Trail at the Cross Street Trailhead in honor of Arbor Day.  Our Arbor Day Celebration is scheduled for Saturday 4/26 at 1:00 pm, and all are welcome. We also have an informative Arbor Day display at the Holliston Library.  The Girl Scouts who participated in The Smokey the Bear contest have pictures of their posters on display at the Library also.

The Holliston Garden club is planning a petite flower arrangement workshop for The Center’s Memory Cafe on 4/2 at 2:00 pm. Memory challenged folks will be guided in creating small flower arrangements with the help of Garden Club members. They will take them home to enjoy.

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The Holliston Garden Club has established a beautification fund thanks to a generous initial gift from lifetime member Kathy Thomas and her husband John. This fund will be used to finance the various planting projects the club maintains as well as allow the club to pursue new plantings of trees and gardens around the town of Holliston.

The Garden Club, which just celebrated its 90th anniversary, has been responsible for a number of garden projects including the library, Arbor Day tree plantings and the fountain at Town Hall. In 2024, the Club designed and began the planting of a native plant garden at the side of Holliston town hall. The Club is also responsible for the multi-season plantings for 10 containers around town. For a complete list of Holliston Garden Club civic projects please see our Town Plantings page on our website.

For many years these projects have been funded through club fund-raising activities such as the annual holiday event, and the plant sale. Covid paused these events for several years, straining the club’s resources for civic projects. Ms. Thomas suggested the creation of a dedicated fund to allow the club to focus on new sources of fund raising. Funds in the new account may only be used for beautification projects that benefit Holliston.

The Garden Club is a 501c3 charitable organization. As a non-profit club that benefits our Town of Holliston, all donations are welcome. Please contact us for more information on donating.

We are excited to announce our 2024 Annual Floral Design Event, sponsored by R&R Landscaping. On Friday, November 8, Maureen Christmas will be presenting A Floral Celebration of the Holidays. Please join us for an evening of hors d’oervres, festive flowers and raffle prizes.

The annual Holliston Garden Club plant sale is this Saturday, May 18, from 9am-12pm on the Church Green next to Town Hall, 725 Washington St. in Holliston. We will have perennials, hanging plants, container gardens and so much more to get your garden started! Cash, checks and credit cards will be accepted.