Wayne resident Katie McEwan will be the speaker for a free virtual program, “Earth Day Past & Present,” on Monday, April 10 at 1 pm. The event is sponsored by the Wayne Public Library and Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum. To register for the program, go to waynepubliclibrary.libcal.com/event/10538754 or go to the link on the library’s […]
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Volunteers Help to Beautify Laurelwood Arboretum April is National Volunteer Month, and the volunteer season will begin at Laurelwood Arboretum on Tuesday, April 11. Volunteers can work any day Tuesday through Saturday from April through October from 9 am to 12 noon. In addition to working in the gardens on Tuesdays, there are opportunities to
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Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum invites students in grades 2 through 6 to register for the GreenQuest Nature Club, a free environmentally themed program and activity held once a month, April through October, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm. All sessions will be held at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake
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Spring is on its way, and Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum has launched its annual Gift of Green campaign to raise funds for the start of the gardening season. Gift of Green donations help provide the resources to recreate our Sensory Garden after its winter rest, to landscape the Summer Garden and to add annuals for
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Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum will host a Fine Art & Collectibles Appraisal Event on Sunday, April 30th from 1 pm to 4 pm at the Knippenberg Center for Education at Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West in Wayne, New Jersey. Jon Telz, owner of RZM Fine Arts & Antiques in Pearl River, New York,
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Laurelwood Arboretum is the home of 20 rhododendrons hybridized by Allan and Shirley Anderson, a retired chemist and science teacher respectively, who gardened and raised rhododendrons at their home in Franklin Lakes for over 40 years. We were invited to remove rhododendrons growing in their garden before the home was sold and the property redeveloped.
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Our rhododendron propagation team has successfully rooted several stem cuttings taken from R. ‘County of York’ in the arboretum last September. The stem cuttings were placed in a rooting box, cared for in our propagation greenhouse and potted by our volunteer team in February. The cuttings developed a significant root ball and are expected to
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The annual Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum plant sale will be held this year during Mother’s Day weekend, Saturday, May 13th and Sunday, May 14th. We are now accepting pre-sale orders for specially selected shrubs and grasses, as well as annual flats. Shrubs, grasses and native perennials must be ordered by March 8th. and annual flats
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“For the birds” is an idiom used to describe something as trivial or nonsense. Originating during WWII, it is believed to be a reference to birds pecking at manure to find birdseed. It is a mistake to call birds trivial—they add so much to our landscapes and ecosystems, not to mention the pleasure they bring
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The many common names of monardas make it easy to see why using a plant’s botanical name is important. Bee balm, Oswego tea, horsemint, and bergamot are some of the names these northeast native plants go by. Their interesting flowers resemble a spiky hairdo that rarely has a bad hair day! These tubular flowers are
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Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
