Image Galleries

This is a new picture gallery for the Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Click on the title of one of the albums below to open it where you may then browse the pictures.

We welcome pictures from all our friends and visitors -- send any you would like to see here to webmaster@arboretumfriends.org.

Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 4 Portmeirion Village Portmeirion Village, a faux Italianate style village used in a TV series The Prisoner, 50 yers ago. Soon to be used, yet again, in a new TV series. Lunch in one of the shops and a woodland walk so not much to share of majestic scenery. Pict 4 & 5: A castle ruin by our hotel on the coast in Aberystwyth.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 4 Plas Brondanw Gardens Plas Brondanw Gardens with a romantic landscape inspired by Renaissance Italy. Noted Author Tony Russell, The Finest Gardens in Wales, was our guide at both sites visited this day.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 3 Bodnant Gardens The first stop of the day, Crug Farm Plants, was bit of a bust. The place was a jungle, the owners were at a funeral, a bogus claim, so there aren’t really any shots that would provoke oohs and ahhs. Bodnant Gardens, however, made up for it with the Laburnum Arch alone.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 2 Stop 1 - Valley Garden - Plas Candant Plas Candant Hidden Gardens. A walled garden, a valley garden with three waterfalls and a woodlands garden.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 2 Stop 1 - Woodland Garden - Plas Candant Plas Candant Hidden Gardens. A walled garden, a valley garden with three waterfalls and a woodlands garden.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 2 Stop 1 - Walled Garden - Plas Candant Plas Candant Hidden Gardens. A walled garden, a valley garden with three waterfalls and a woodlands garden.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 1 Stop 2 Gwydir Castle Gwydir Castle actually a really large Welsh house. Two twenty somethings came upon this derelict place around 1994 and have spent the rest of their lives reviving it. An excellent story captured in Castles In The Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion. Ghosts, local tradesmen doing artisan work, Prince Charles visit and help. Unbelievable gritty these two to save this place.
Wales Trip - Bob Hemsen - Day 1 Stop 1 - Bodysgadon Hall First stop Bodysgadon Hall for lunch. Rich dark paneling, an actual fireplace giving the dining area ambiance during the rainy day.
Fairy Day is Coming! Kenneth Hoffman wrote last week, "Hi, I recently spent a lovely day at your arboretum Here [are two] of the photos I took." Looks like things are getting ready for the Fairies' visit to the Aboretum later this month. Thanks, Kenneth, for the photographs.
Sunday Saunter - 5/26/19 Our member, Steve Kanan, was able to get this lovely batch of Spring flower pictures at the Arboretum last weekend. Thanks, Steve, for sharing them with us.