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While you may view our full program on the Events Page of our website, we are pleased to highlight these upcoming programs.

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!

NATIVE PLANTS ARE BETTER: BORN AND BRED TO SUCCEED IN YOUR NEW JERSEY GARDEN

Click to Shop Online

Thursday, March 18 - 7:00 PM

Join us for the third of our free Zoom talks previewing plants we'll have for sale online this year. Click here to register. The Zoom link will be sent to you the morning of the program.

We're open online now for plant orders, so click here (or on the Plant Sale Banner, above) to check out the plants available, place your order and find out when and where you can pick your order up. Happy Shopping!

Help support our annual fundraiser by forwarding this blast to family, friends and other contacts, the more the merrier. The Friends appreciate your help!

COOKING DEMONSTRATION: RISI E BISI (Rice and Peas)

Anytime in March

A RECORDED PROGRAM

Chef Cynthia Triolo will make Risi e Bisi (Rice and Peas) a traditional Italian dish similar to risotto. It is best made in early spring when fresh peas and their tendrils are available.

Register now and receive the access link when the recording is available.

Please click on the rice & peas to register for this program online.

COOKING DEMONSTRATION: LOVELY LEEKS

Anytime in April

A RECORDED PROGRAM

Leeks are one of those vegetables we don't use often enough. They pair beautifully with a number of foods and are at their best this time of year. Take them on in this cooking demonstration with Cynthia Triolo, because once you know how to handle them you'll be using them regularly!

Register now and receive the access link when the recording is available.

Please click on the leeks to register for this program online.

SUBURBAN ECOLOGY: EASY GARDENING PRACTICES FOR A HEALTHY PLANET

Thursday, April 15 - 7:00 PM

VIRTUAL ZOOM PROGRAM

Carolle Huber, local Landscape Architect, will discuss some easy practices that can help you make your landscape more eco-friendly. Not only the how, but the why. From choosing plants in the spring to your fall cleanup. Plants, lawn, birds and insects and more. Sustainable design is simply good design guided by solid environmental goals. We can all have landscapes that inspire awe, while still doing right by the environment.

Carolle calls this Suburban Ecology.

This program is eligible for 1.0 Master Gardener CEU.

Click on the Goldfinch for more information and to register.

MORRIS COUNTY PARK COMMISSION PROGRAM

Wildflowers of The Tourne - Thursday
March 25 - 12:00 - 12:45 PM

Hear all about flowering native plants on The Tourne's Wildflower Trail in this program by the Rockaway Valley Garden Club.

Click on flyer for more information and to register.

BLOOMING TODAY AT THE FRELINGHUYSEN ARBORETUM

Today's visit to The Frelinghuysen Arboretum was rewarded with many clumps of white Snowdrops (Galanthus), golden Winter Jasmine flowers (Jasminum nudiflorum) and Giant Pussy Willow catkins (Salix chaenomeloides). Following are photos of all three.

Click an image to see them all in our website's picture gallery. All pictures courtesy of Margery Ennist.

FRIENDS YOUTUBE CHANNEL

We are happy to announce that the Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum now have a YouTube channel.

Please visit by clicking the image (or go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwLu6l-05_VnSNQlkvi3Aw)

YOU CAN STILL REGISTER FOR PREVIOUS ZOOM PRESENTATIONS

We are pleased to make several of our previously recorded events available in case you missed one or another of them.

Go to our new prerecorded-events Events page for more information and to register and pay online.

Retail Partners

When shopping at our fine Retail Partners, please remember to present your Membership card at the beginning of your check out transaction. Our Retail Partners need to enter the discount at the beginning of that process.

If you have not yet used this wonderful Member Benefit, you can view our full list of Retail Partners by clicking here.

Amazon Smile

Don't forget to "SMILE!"Amazon Smile, that is!

Amazon, through the AmazonSmile Foundation will contribute 0.5% of your purchases on Amazon to a charitable organization you select. Please consider selecting The Friends of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum as your designated recipient from this wonderful program.

Click here and log in to your amazon account to designate the Friends as your charity.

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 INFORMATION

Friends 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.

SCHEDULE ANNOUNCEMENTS

PANDEMIC SCHEDULE

Morris County Park Commission has reopened the Frelinghuysen, Willowwood and Bamboo Brook Arboreta 7 days a week, from 8am to dusk.

• Parking is limited. Buildings remain closed. Portajohns are available.
• Please protect yourselves and fellow visitors by social distancing and by wearing masks.
• HUNTING IN THE PARKS - Be aware that deer hunting is permitted in many of the MCPC facilities, including the arboreta, during the fall and winter. The schedule and type (bow or firearm) is listed on the MCPC website here.

We will keep you posted as further updates become available.

Visit our website: https://www.arboretumfriends.org.
Email your comments or suggestions to webmaster@arboretumfriends.org.

The Frelinghuysen Arboretum is a facility of the Morris County Park Commission