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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Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum will welcome holiday shoppers to a Holiday Fine Art Boutique at the Knippenberg Center for Education, Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Drive West in Wayne. The boutique will be open Saturdays and Sundays 12 noon to 4 pm from November 19 through December 18. It will feature unique gifts including small
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Holiday Boutique Saturdays and SundaysNovember 19 to December 18, 12 Noon to 4PM Scott A. Broadfoot of Broadfoot and Broadfoot Galleries in Boonton will once again host a Holiday Boutique in the Knippenberg Center for Education. Tabletop sculptures made by A Sculpture Trail artists will be featured, along with other fine art. Holiday ornaments, handmade by Barbara Corcoran Clark, will
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Master Gardener Lourdes Osorio has a mission—to create a welcoming world for butterflies, bees and other pollinators, one garden at a time. While many people see insects as a threat, she sees them as essential to a healthy ecosystem. “Insects are the most numerous organisms on earth, and only a small number are pests,” Lourdes
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