September 17, 2025
Saturday, October 18 - 1:00 PM
In person at the:
Interfaith Food Pantry
Central Park of Morris County
2 Executive Drive, Morris Plains, NJ 07950
Easy, fun and delicious Quick Pickles. No canning needed. Just jars and your fridge.
French style Tarragon Cornichon, Spiced Pickled Beets, Korean Style KimChi and some
homemade fermented Sauerkraut.
And for the serious home cook!
Traditional Home Canned Bread and Butter Pickles. Savory, Sweet and Spicy at the same
time. A little more work but you’ll see, they are worth the effort and it’s FUN! You can
keep these in your cupboard for more than a year, and they make a great gift!
For more information and to register, click on Paul's photo.
Saturday, November 8 - 9:00 AM
In person at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum
Many thanks to Bartlett Tree Experts for generously sponsoring this Symposium!
Beginning at 9:00 AM with registration, coffee, welcome and the opportunity to purchase plants from Coldwater Pond Nursery and Steven Kristoph Nursery.
In last week's eblast we focused on Jean Epiphan and her talk on Tree Care Fundamentals to Reduce Stress and Disease. This week, our focus turns to:
Hazardous Tree Identification, Ted Szczawinski
Hazardous trees pose a double danger, they are tough to recognize and they can be costly, even deadly, if not managed before an avoidable accident happens. In this presentation, Ted will walk you through the step-by-step process of identifying, assessing and developing a hazard mitigation plan to assist you in maintaining a healthy tree resource.
Ted Szczawinski is a graduate of both Rutgers University and Seton Hall University. He has worked in the field of arboriculture for over 40 years; he started teaching industry programs 30 years ago at Rutgers University's NJAES Office of Continuing Professional Education. Ted currently serves as a faculty adjunct at Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station's Office of Continuing Professional Education and the Horticulture Department at Bergen Community College, teaching plant science.
Ted is a NJ Licensed Tree Expert, ISA Certified Arborist and NJ Department of Education Licensed Teacher of Agriculture.
This Symposium has been approved by:
- The New Jersey Board of Tree Experts for 5.0 CEUs
- The New Jersey Urban and Community Forestry Program for 4.0 NJUCF CEUs
- Rutgers Master Gardeners for 4.0 CEUs
For information on all the speakers, their lectures and to register, please click on the apple tree icon, above.
AT THE FRELINGHUYSEN ARBORETUM
Among the many beautiful trees on the grounds of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum, there is a very nice example of Taxodium ascendens 'Nutans' (Pond Cypress) at the end of a planting strip in one of the parking bays. This tree is native to the coastal plain from Virginia to Florida to Louisiana. A deciduous conifer growing to between 30-70 feet, its foliage turns orange brown in fall and its bark is gray/brown to red/brown.
The seed pods on Magnolia grandiflora cv. Victoria (Southern Magnolia) are an architectural marvel resembling pine cones but are actually an aggregate of many smaller follicles, or seed casings. In this photo the follicles have not begun to open exposing the bright red fruits that provide high fat, high energy food for many birds and mammals.
Last, but not least, a bright spot in the garden provided by a large red Coleus (sadly I don't know this one's name); note the much smaller Fishnet Stockings Coleus in the upper left hand corner of this photo. Members of the mint family, Coleus plants come in many colors, from deep reds to pinks to chartreuse and forms, from mounded, trailing to upright. We know them as shade lovers, but newer varieties can tolerate full sun.
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FRIENDS VIDEOS AT THE ARBORETUM
Click here for a brief video by Lisa Bencivengo featuring Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture Division of Cultural and Environmental Resources at the Morris County Park Commission in which he discusses the All American Garden at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum. Be sure to subscribe to our channel.
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