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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.

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Good morning! Today we'll cover the Plant Sale, Cooking Leeks, Suburban Ecology and Backyard Bird watching. More information and how to register follow.

FUN AND FUNNY PLANTS FOR YOUR GARDEN

Thursday, April 1 - 7:00 PM

In a nod to April Fool's Day, the plant sale team is going to focus on some of the funny traits of plants offered in the Sale and how you can have fun by adding them to your garden.

Please note that, although the Sale is ongoing until April 27, prices for the plants we still have available will go up by $5.00 each on April 5. That means you can still indulge in plant fever right up until pick-up days; it also means that your orders after this weekend will provide a little extra help for the Friends in support of our programs and projects at the Arboretum. Thank you!

Join us for the fourth (and final) 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.

Please note that we have added the following plants to the list available for purchase from our Plant Sale:

• Chionanthus virginicus, Fringe Tree - 10 gallon
• Ilex opaca species - 3 gallon
• Ilex opaca 'Maryland Dwarf' - 1 gallon
• Ilex opaca 'Maryland Dwarf' - 3 gallon
• Ilex opaca 'Satyr Hill' - 1 gallon

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: 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.

THE JOY OF BACKYARD BIRD FEEDING AND WATCHING

Thursday, April 22 - 7:00 PM

VIRTUAL ZOOM PROGRAM

Jim Walker, owner of the Wild Birds Unlimited store in Denville, New Jersey, will provide our audience with the necessary information to make the hobby of bird feeding more enjoyable.

Topics will include the best food to offer to attract the widest variety of birds, the different types of feeders available, why water and nesting boxes are so important, as well as ways to thwart those pesky squirrels.

Jim will also pay special attention to nesting, migrating birds and hummingbirds.

Click on the logo for more information and to register.

MORRIS COUNTY PARK COMMISSION VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Lunch and Learn: Secrets of our Treasured Gardens
Thursday, April 8 - 12:00 to 12:45 PM

Join MCPC collection staff as we explore some of the treasured places, inspiring people, stories and plants that have been preserved within MCPC's historic gardens. Learn more about the garden design and preservation efforts at Willowwood Arboretum, The Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Bamboo Brook and Fosterfields Living Historical Farm.

To register go to: tinyurl.com/MCPCadults - Cost: $10.00

Click on the Fosterfield image for more information and to register.

MORE BLOOMS AT THE FRELINGHUYSEN ARBORETUM

Spring is really starting to reward us with her annual show. My visit today provided a look at a variety of different flowers, from trees, to shrubs to tiny little Alpine plants. Enjoy these photos of a Loebner Magnolia flower, Saxifraga paniculata (Rockfoil), Salix gracilistyla (Black Pussy Willow), Corylopsis Gotoana (Fragrant Winterhazel) and some lovely and fragrant Hyacinths.

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

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.

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Email your comments or suggestions to webmaster@arboretumfriends.org.

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