The Friends of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum invite you to our Annual Plant Sale on the first weekend in May.
As in past years, there will be special early shopping — plus refreshments, door prizes and a plant dividend — for Members Only on Friday evening May 2nd from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Reservations required, so reserve a spot using our Google Form.
Details about the Members Plant Dividends are here.
Throughout the sale you’ll be able to get advice from local plant experts and to select from a huge variety of houseplants, annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees. Preview the sale by signing up for free Zooms every Tuesday evening during the month before the sale. Details on our Events Page.
Volunteer Opportunities
Want to get involved and learn more about the plants at the sale? Volunteer to help us set up May 1-5 and during the sale May 5-7. See all the 2025 Plant Sale Volunteer Opportunities and sign up HERE.
The Friends are happy to bring you several articles about plants at this year’s plant sale by Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture for the Morris County Park Commission. This article focuses the genus, Trilium (common name, Wakerobin or Toadshade), and talks about several of the beautiful species we can grow here.
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Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture for the Morris County Park Commission, has written another article for us. He uses Sanguinaria canadensis (common name, Bloodroot), to talk about early spring bulbs in general, but with a focus on this beautiful example.
Read the first paragraph, below, and click on the link below to open the full PDF.
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Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture for the Morris County Park Commission, writes in this article about Jeffersonia diphylla (common name, Twinleaf), elaborating about its description and history as well as using it as a primer on botanic naming.
After reading the first paragraph, below, you can click on the link to open the full PDF.
Jeffersonia diphylla, ...
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So many plants and so little time! Here’s the link to the list on Google Sheets.
Once again, we couldn’t restrain ourselves and have ordered hundreds of different plant varieties so far for the upcoming sale.
You can sort it by using Google Sheets Data command, or you can download it as a pdf or several other ...
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We’re just 30 days away from the best plant sale in Morris County! Proceeds from the Friends’ Plant Sale support the efforts of the Morris County Park Commission to beautify and maintain the wonderful gardens, trees and trails at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Next week we’ll deliver the Master List of plants, but here are a ...
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Many thanks again to everyone who participated in the Friends’ 2024 Plant Sale, either by volunteering, organizing, advertising, purchasing plants, etc. Thanks to everyone, we had a very successful sale this year which will allow us to continue supporting The Frelinghuysen Arboretum with planting grants, grants for summer interns, etc. Here are just a few ...
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The Plant Sale began in earnest Monday morning by putting shelving together and hanging lights before the “stars of the show’ (3,700 plants) arrived. The afternoon was spent organizing and tagging the plants for sale. We had fun. A very exciting start to a great Plant Sale!
Thanks to Heather Emelander for these nice pictures of ...
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