Press Releases

Chase away winter’s chill and get ready for spring at https://laurelwoodarboretum.org/plant-sale/.  The Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum Online Plant Sale is now underway. Choose from a well-priced selection of annual flats, grasses, perennials, shrubs and trees—including many native plants to help support a healthy ecosystem.  Ordering early helps ensure you will have the plants you want […]

The All Wayne String Orchestra invites the community to enjoy an afternoon of festive holiday and winter music on Thursday, December 11 at 4:30 PM at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West in Wayne.  The program will also showcase the newly formed M.A.R.S. Trio, with the orchestra’s music

Get a head start on your holiday shopping at the Holiday Craft Boutique, open for pre-season shopping from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23 at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West, Wayne.  Admission is free.  A shuttle from the Pines Lake

A first-ever Holiday Plant Sale will be featured during Laurelwood Arboretum’s Holiday Craft Boutique on Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Knippenberg Center for Education, 725 Pines Lake Drive West, Wayne.  Admission is free.   A shuttle from the Pines Lake School will be available to bring

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 11 and Sunday, October 12 from 12 PM to 4 PM at the arboretum’s Knippenberg Center for Education, 725

Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum welcomes the sights and sounds of New Jersey’s beautiful birds with a morning walk on Saturdays, October 12, 19 and 26 at 8 am (rain dates October 13, 20 and 27). Walkers meet at the Sensory Garden located near the Vale Road parking lot at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive

Photographer Glen Evans invites visitors on a 13-year, 10,000 mile walk through Laurelwood Arboretum and landscapes in Minnesota and beyond in his October exhibit.  “Capturing an image of any particular plant or scene is often the result of studying it for weeks, months, or years to decide when is the best time to push the

Did you know that the average American generates about 8 pounds of waste every day?  Did you also know that 40 percent of what a household puts out to the curb for trash could actually be organically recycled to be turned into compost? Come to Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West in Wayne on

Chrysanthemums—the beloved “mums” of fall—will take center stage at Laurelwood Arboretum on Wednesday, September 17 at 6:30 p.m. Cindy Hedin, a longtime member of the New Jersey State Chrysanthemum Society, will present a free program, Knowing and Growing Chrysanthemums, at the Knippenberg Center for Education, 725 Pines Lake Drive West, Wayne. Drawing on more than

The GreenQuest Nature Club invites children in grades 2 through 6 to an exciting program on Wednesday, September 24, from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive, Wayne.  This month’s topic is farm animals. Children will learn how they grow, stay healthy and play a