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August 20, 2025BUS TRIP TO LONGWOOD GARDENSThank you to everyone who has signed up for the upcoming Bus Trip to Longwood Gardens; the bus is full, but we'll be happy to add names to a waitlist if you're interested. Send an email to mennist@arboretumfriends.net if you'd like your name added to the waitlist, but please do so before August 27th, as that's when we have to provide Longwood Gardens with our final count. The Program Committee has been working hard on new programming for the fall. Here's a sampling of what's to come:Annual Tree SymposiumSaturday, November 8 - Save The Date!A variety of topics will be addressed at this year's program, including tree care fundamentals, hazardous tree identification, pests and diseases and NJ Champion Trees at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Stay tuned for more information and registration. Cooking Demonstration with Cynthia TrioloSunday, November 16 - Save The Date!Cynthia will share recipes for homemade edible holiday gifts as well as some packaging suggestions. More information and registration is coming soon. Other programming ideas including another cooking demonstration are being discussed and will be shared just as soon as arrangements have been finalized. Be sure to check the Events Page on our website for updates:NATIVE PLANTS IN THE GARDENIncluding native plants in your garden adds beauty to your landscape and provides food and shelter to butterflies, bees, birds, etc. Following are four beautiful plants that are native to our area, unless otherwise noted: Silver gem prostrate blue violet (Viola walteri) is a compact, multi-stemmed herbaceous perennial with heart-shaped leaves and tiny violet flowers which forms a slowly spreading groundcover. Viola walteri grows in partial shade and is very drought tolerant once it's established. Solar cascade goldenrod (Solidago shortii) is a clump forming perennial with beautiful, miniature golden-yellow flowers borne in axillary clusters along the stems from late summer into fall. Grow it in full sun to part shade in moist, average or dry soil. Great blue lobelia or blue cardinal flower (Lobelia siphilitica) is a gorgeous native perennnial with a strongly upright habit and covered in tall stalks of strikingly blue flowers from mid to late summer. It's a bee and butterfly magnet and will thrive in full sun to part shade. Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata 'Ice Ballet'), native to MIssouri, is an herbaceous perennial, offering clusters of white, vanilla-scented flowers in mid-summer. This pollinator plant is especially attractive to the larval stage of Monarch butterflies. The flowers are followed by attractive seed pods which split open, releasing the silky haired seeds to the wind. All of the above thrive in my garden and the plants were all purchased at various plant sales held by the Friends. 
Click a picture to open the Photo Gallery page on our website. FRIENDS VIDEOS AT THE ARBORETUMClick here for a brief video by Lisa Bencivengo showing Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture Division of Cultural and Environmental Resources at the Morris County Park Commission discussing the All American Garden at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. You can view all our videos in our YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe. WATCH PREVIOUS ZOOM PRESENTATIONSSeveral of our previously recorded events are available to watch on-line. See our Prerecorded Events page for more information and to register.Retail PartnersWhen 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. You can register and pay on line on our Events page and Membership page and subscribe to this newsletter here: complete directions for subscribing. CONTACT US HERE
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Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum Post Office Box 2267 Morristown, NJ 07962 Web: https://www.arboretumfriends.org PARK INFORMATION The Frelinghuysen Arboretum is a facility of the Morris County Park Commission
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