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Holiday shoppers will find unique gifts including tabletop sculptures, paintings, ornaments and other exceptional items at the Holiday Fine Art Showcase and Sale at the Knippenberg Center for Education, Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West in Wayne.  The Showcase and Sale is open from 12 noon to 4 pm on Saturday, November 23 and […]

Rejuvenation by Elaine Lorenz, a brilliantly white sculpture fashioned from fiber-reinforced cement, is now on view alongside Brook Road at Laurelwood Arboretum.  It replaces Up and Away, a Lorenz sculpture at the same site that was recently sold.  Rejuvenation, which is also for sale, is priced at $15,000. “I revisited my earlier sculpture to recreate

Do you want to enhance your landscape with native plants?  Growing native plants from seed is not the same as starting vegetables or annuals and Fall is the best time to start many of them.  You can learn how on Sunday, October 20 at 11 am at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum,

Enjoy the many beautiful forms and colors of mum blooms when the New Jersey State Chrysanthemum Society returns to Laurelwood Arboretum.  The Society’s judged Show will be free and open to the public on Saturday, October 12 and Sunday, October 13 from 12 PM to 4 PM at the arboretum’s Knippenberg Center for Education, 725

The October exhibit at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum spotlights the work of award-winning photographic artist Elisabeth Ladwig.  This joyful show embraces the idea of “Breathing Room” as a guilt-free way of life. Featured artworks touch on themes of slower living, connection, thoughtful observation, and the purposeful crafting of one’s time on

Join the GreenQuest Nature Club at Laurelwood Arboretum for wood-erful presentation on the New Jersey Woodlands on Wednesday, September 25 from 5 pm to 6:30 pm.  Students will be taught how woodlands benefit our ecosystems, what organisms use them as habitat and their importance in keeping our environment healthy. We will also search for wildlife

The Ridgewood Camera Club invites visitors to step into a world where nature intertwines with artistic expression at its exhibit, Blossoms & Branches: A Photographic Celebration of Nature’s Elegance.  The photographs will be on display from September 4 to September 28 at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West

Laurelwood Arboretum will once again welcome the Wayne Hills High School Patriot 5 Woodwind Quintet for a free late-afternoon concert on Monday, August 26th.  The popular concert will begin at 5:30 pm in the Knippenberg Center for Education, 725 Pines Lake Drive, Wayne.  The group, directed by Steve Sullivan and Heather Boronow, will perform a

Celebrate summer’s end at Family Fun Day in the Garden at Laurelwood Arboretum on Saturday, August 24 from 11 AM to 3 PM, rain or shine.  This event will feature activities for kids of all ages–scavenger hunts, art projects, nature crafts, plant-a-pot workshops, nature story time and more.  Laurelwood Arboretum is located at 725 Pines

The featured exhibit for August at Laurelwood Arboretum will be watercolors by landscape painter, George Polazzi.  His work will be on view from August 2 to August 31at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West in Wayne.  The Opening Reception will be on Sunday, August 4 at 2:30 pm.