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March 16, 20222022 FRIENDS PLANT SALEWe're having an in-person plant sale at the Arboretum this year - April 30 & May 1 - so please put those dates on your calendar and follow updates in future eblasts and at our weekly free Zoom programs starting in April. Because our online sale was so successful last year AND because we again have special access to plants from one of our favorite growers AND because we sold out on so many of the plants we offered last year, we've decided to again have an online sale of several dozen plants that you can order now and pick up during the weekend of the plant sale. So, get first dibs on a great selection of high quality plants by ordering online between now and April 28. Then, come to the sale to pick up your order and to shop from a wider selection of plants to add to your order. We can't guarantee that all the plants on our online list will be at the sale, or that we won't sell out before the sale, so if you see something you want, order it now. Need more of what you ordered last year and loved, perhaps another Ilex verticillata, because the fruiting was beautiful last fall? Another Fig or Blueberry? Or that Blue Gentian that would be just perfect in your shade garden? Take a look at our whole list here Happy Spring from the Plant Sale Team!AN EVENING WITH JAN JOHNSEN AND HER NEW BOOK, FLORATOPIA Thursday, March 24 - 7:00 PMVIRTUAL ZOOM PROGRAMJoin Distinguished Speaker and Landscape Designer Jan Johnsen, as she shares her experience and contagious passion for flowers in her illustrated talk based on her new book Floratopia - 110 Flower Garden Ideas for Your Yard, Patio or Balcony. Jan offers illustrated tips and flower design suggestions. She underscores flowers' role as pollinator magnets and encourages combining grasses and flowers and using deer resistant selections. She stresses both perennials and annuals and gives recommended cultivars. Jan's aim is to ensure flower success for gardeners of all skill levels. Jan is a principal of the award-winning Johnsen Landscapes & Pools firm based in Westchester County, New York and an admired garden designer and author. She taught at Columbia University for many years and still teaches at the New York Botanical Garden. Please click on the book cover for more information and to register.BIBLICAL BOTANY with Dr. Jon Greenberg Thursday, April 7 - 7:00 PMVIRTUAL ZOOM PROGRAMDr. Jon Greenberg, an agronomist and Biblical and Talmudic ethnobotanist, is familiar to many of us from his annual Biblical Botany walking tours at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum. In April, as Passover approaches, he will share insights from his research and from Fruits of Freedom, the Torah Flora Hagadah, his botanical guide to the Passover celebration published in 2021. Dr. Greenberg will explain how every detail of the ritual Passover meal, or seder, carries deep theological meaning, from the choices of vegetables and recipes for the ritual foods to the use of red or green grapes to make the wine for the meal - he will also talk about table settings. Please click on the photo for more information and to register.THE STATE AND CHALLENGES OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION IN NEW JERSEY with Michele Byers Thursday, April 21 - 7:00 PMVIRTUAL ZOOM PROGRAMRecently retired as Executive Director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Michele Byers will review the status of New Jersey's land preservation program and share some of the planning tools used to identify important conservation lands; she will also discuss current threats to New Jersey's lands and environment as well as offer some solutions and proposed actions. Ms Byers has a BA in Biology from Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado. She is the 2022 recipient of the Garden Club of America's Francs K. Hutchinson Medal, awarded for distinguished service to conservation, in recognition of her decades of work to conserve natural lands. Please click on the photo for more information and to register.MORRIS COUNTY PARK COMMISSION PROGRAMS AND NOTICE Pruning Workshops with Bruce CrawfordThe Frelinghuysen Arboretum
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That's it for this time. Hope you enjoyed this edition of the newsletter. Tell your friends about this handy way to keep up with activities at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum (click here for complete directions for subscribing. IMPORTANT INFORMATIONFriends Staff will be out of the office until Fall 2021, however we will continue working remotely. Please note our new Post Office Box number and staff emails. MAIL: EMAIL: SCHEDULE ANNOUNCEMENTSPANDEMIC SCHEDULEMorris County Park Commission has reopened the Frelinghuysen, Willowwood and Bamboo Brook Arboreta 7 days a week, from 8am to dusk.
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