Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens

Friends Garden Party
2022-06-17 18:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Robbins Town Hall Gardens, 700 Mass Ave Arlington, Arlington, Massachusetts, 02476, United States
Come one, come all to the hidden garden at the center of Arlington.

We’ll go inside the Town Hall if it rains

Your $50 ticket gets you 2 drinks ( wine, Beer or non alcoholic) a delicious meal from either Jose’s Torta Mexicana or Blue Ribbon Barbeque, live music from the band ‘What She Said’ https://www.facebook.com/WhatSheSaidIL , and a chance to win an ornamental tree planted in your yard.

Proceeds from the event will go to restoring this beautiful Olmsted Garden.

For more information email frtg2018@gmail.com

Garden Party

Garden Club Work Group
2023-04-20 08:30 - 10:00
Group will meet on alternate Thursday mornings starting Thursday April 20

We’ll focus on the garden area around the reflecting pool in anticipation of spring garden events coming up..

Serious rain will cancel. Or a rain call will be made by 7:30 am.

General Work Plan: Weeding, pruning, clearing invasives around Whittemore Robbins House & the Reflecting Pool

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

Garden work Day
2023-04-20 08:30 - 10:30

Earth Day = Clean Up Day
2023-04-22 10:00 - 14:00
Come meet neighbors and friends and work together to spruce up the garden. We will be meeting in the garden from 10AM till 3PM to clear away the leaves and branches that have accumulated over the winter and lay down some mulch in the garden beds. If you’d like to join us on Earth Day, please email frtg2018@gmail.com and put “EARTH DAY” in the subject line. We’ll send you more information about our plans for the day.

Garden Work Day
2023-04-27 02:00 - 16:00
Dear Garden friends

We look forward to working with you in the garden on Thursdays

When:

We plan to hold work sessions on Thursday Afternoons from 2:00-4:00

Work Plan: Remove invasives near town hall. Thin some of the day lilies along the side of town hall. Thin and replant pachysandra.

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

JoAnn’s cell / text: (617) 642-1590

Christine’s cell / text (617) 876-7367

Garden Work Day
2023-05-04 08:30 - 10:30
Work Plan: TBD

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

Emily Snyder and Patsy Kraemer

Garden Work Day
2023-05-04 13:00 - 16:00
Work Plan: Weeding and light pruning among the old and newer ornamental shrubs. Spring tree assessments.

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

We look forward to seeing you! Mona, JoAnn and Christine

Garden work Day
2023-05-11 08:30 - 10:00
Work Plan:

PURCHASED & READY TO PLANT TOMORROW 5/11: 7 x 12 flats = 84 ‘pachysandra terminalis’:

Please bring your digging tools, talents and, if you have it, & fencing+stakes

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

We look forward to seeing you – Emily Snyder and Patsy Kraemer

Garden Work Day
2023-05-11 13:00 - 15:00
Work Plan: Help prune the suckers off crabapple trees. If it rains heavy with lightening, we cancel and try again next Thursday.

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

We look forward to seeing you – Christine Harris, JoAnn Robinson, Mona McKindley

Garden Work Date
2023-05-18 08:30 - 10:30

Garden work Day
2023-05-18 13:00 - 15:00
Work Plan: We will be cutting some of the pachysandra back and thin pruning the part we are keeping that trains over the rocks.

Making a space for the leucothoe near the water works bunker and transplanting it.

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

We look forward to seeing you – Christine Harris, JoAnn Robinson, Mona McKindley

Garden Work Day
2023-05-25 14:00 - 16:00
Work Plan:

cutting the wintercreeper where it cascades over the rocks

Meeting place: Carriage House behind Whittemore Robbins House (700R Mass. Ave., Arlington Ctr.)

Parking: We provide parking permits for parking near the Carriage House

Wear gloves. Bring water and hand tools if you want. We have long-handled tools and garden carts.

We look forward to seeing you – Christine Harris, JoAnn Robinson, Mona McKindley

2nd Annual Garden Party
2023-06-23 18:30 - 21:30
SAVE THE DATE! JUNE 23

Come join in our second annual garden celebration. We’ll have food, wine, beer and other beverages and a great band. Stay tuned for more information

2023 Annual Meeting
2023-11-20 18:00 - 21:00
Hello Garden Friends,I want to remind you of our annual meeting on November 20 at 6PM in the Library Community Room. We’ll go over what we accomplished this past year, elect new people to the board and new officers and gather suggestions from you about what you would like to see us work on in the future. If you’ve ever wondered what our organization does, are interested in joining our Board of Directors, wanted to help out with our work in the garden, or wanted the chance to suggest things we might want to do, we would love to see you. We’ll have tea, coffee and nibbles. Hope to see you there.Yours for the GardenChristine Harris – Current President

A Spring Clean-up in the Robbins Town Gardens on Earth Day
2024-04-20 12:00 - 17:00
On April 20, 2024, Earth Day, the Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens sponsored a clean-up day in the gardens between the Library and the Town Hall. The morning was wet and rainy, but by noon it was just cloudy and a comfortable temperature to work outside. So we started out in the early afternoon with a good group of volunteers. Several members of the Arlington Rotary, the Arlington Garden Club, and other Arlington residents joined the Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens to help “spruce up” the garden in preparation for the spring and summer seasons.

Fixing the fence

Leftover leaves and sticks from the winter beneath the shrubs were bagged for disposal in more than twenty-five leaf bags, generously donated by Shattuck Hardware.

Volunteers removed a lot of invasive plants and trimmed some dead wood on shrubs.

Bye bye leaves!

The Friends of the Robbins Town Gardens and the Arlington Garden Club will be working in the garden in the spring and summer months. The work schedule will also be posted here on our website. If you’d like to join us to help keep the garden looking beautiful, send an email to FRTG2018@gmail.com, and we’ll connect you with the appropriate person.

Remember that the garden is beautiful this time of year and is a great place to visit if you haven’t been there in the past few weeks.

Our 3rd Annual Garden Party
2024-06-08 18:00 - 21:00
Our 3rd Annual Garden Party has now been scheduled. It is a fund raiser for the benefit of the Robbins Town Gardens.
