Jul 24, 2024
Saturday, September 28 - 1:00 PM at the Haggerty Education Center
As her program title indicates, Ms. Petri will be discussing how landscape design can help advance democracy; she will also be taking a look at the Olmsted landscapes in New Jersey. This promises to be a very interesting and informative program!
Anne 'Dede' Neal Petri holds a degree in American History and LIterature from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School. During the course of a varied and brilliant career, she served as First Vice President and then President of the Garden Club of America, and is now the President and CEO of the National Association of Olmsted Parks, the only national organization dedicated to protecting, preserving, and restoring Olmsted parks and landscapes across the country. In April, Dede received the National Garden Club of America's 2024 Distinguished Service Medal for her "tireless service on behalf of plants and the spaces created to showcase them".
More to follow regarding the topic of Ms. Petri's lecture.
Light refreshments will be served.
For more information and to register, please click on Ms. Petri's photo.
The Haggerty Education Center's raised beds are a cheerful mix of bright and sunny annuals in shades of red, yellow and blue, all beautifully displayed against the evergreen shrubs in the background. Several tall Bronze Fennel plants (Foeniculum vulgare) are in full bloom in the gardens next to Matilda's Cottage, and the bees are busy pollinating their flowers. It's mid-summer and the Hardy Hibiscus plants are putting on their annual show with a variety of large, colorful flowers; this week we're featuring the gorgeous pink flower of Hibiscus moscheutos cv. Copper King with its red center and veining. Each flower only lasts a day, but the show goes on for weeks with new flowers opening daily. There are many other Hardy Hibiscus plants at the Arboretum; plan a visit and see them all!
Thanks to Valerie Scarinci for the Hibiscus photo and Margery Ennist for the entry garden and fennel pictures.
Click an image to see them all in our website's picture gallery.
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