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March 18, 2026

Native Plants for the Home Landscape with David Culp

Wednesday, April 15 - 1:00 to 3:00 PM

In person at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum

There are just a few seats left for this program - Register soon!

Please join us as David Culp describes how choosing native plants for your home landscape need not be a struggle between wanting to create a healthy and robust ecosystem and yearning for gorgeous plant combinations to create seasonal interest all year long. David will show us how to have the best of both worlds, building a perfect world of beauty for you and the essential wildlife around you to share.

David Culp is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cavano's Perennials. He is also the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, which are listed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Gardens. The gardens have been featured on television and numerous magazine publications. David is the principal of David L. Culp Designs, owner of the Galanthus Nursery, Brandywine Snowdrops, and the developer of the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores. He has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for over 25 years, and teaches herbaceous perennials at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Culp is the author of The Layered Garden (Timber Press), which won a Gold Medal from the Garden Writers Association for Best Overall Book of the Year. His second book, A Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty and Blooms (Timber Press), takes us further, detailing how more than 30 years creating this sensational year-round garden provides an abundance of joy, both indoors and out, whether it's choosing plants for twelve months of interest, weaving edibles into the mix, or bringing the bounty indoors with simple arrangements and homegrown recipes.

A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.

Light refreshments will be served.

For more information and to register, click on the photo.

FRIENDS ANNUAL PLANT SALE NEWS

We've been working hard getting ready for our annual plant sale. As we do every year, our Plant Sale weekend will begin with a:

Members Only Plant Sale Preview

Friday, May 1 - 4:00 to 7:00 PM

In the Big Tent in the Parking Lot

Join us in the big tent for a Member Preview Sale and refreshments. Many hours have been spent reviewing plant availability, choosing colors, considering sizes, etc. so we can offer you the very best choices.

You'll be able to get advice from local plant experts and select from a huge variety of houseplants, annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees.

As in past years, we'll offer special plant dividends to our Members. Click here to see the full list with details and pictures to help you chose. Please note that two of the plugs (Stachys x 'Summer Romance' and Polystichum acrostichoides) will only be available for purchase, not as member plant dividends.

The Plant Sale Preview program is free to Members, but registration is required. Click here to learn more and to register.

HACKBERRY, A SHADE TREE TO CONSIDER

Here's an article by Bruce Crawford describing another plant that will be available at our Plant Sale. The Hackberry, or Celtis occidentalis is a shade tree worth considering if you have the right kind of garden for it.

Click on the image to access and read the full article

COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS (CCM) PROGRAM

Women in Horticulture
Wednesday, April 1 - 5:00 PM

Join CCM for a panel discussion and mixer with members of the Garden State Flower Cooperative. This creative entrepreneurial venture connects local New Jersey flower farmers with the floral market.

For more information, click on the flyer.

COMMUNITY GARDEN CONFERENCE

The 16th Annual Community Garden Conference is a wrap. Keynote speakers Christopher Bolden-Newsome and Owen Taylor presented a wonderful, interesting and informative program, and their Truelove Seeds were available for purchase at the Conference. Thank you to all the presenters and roundtable moderators for another successful Conference. See you next year!

Here are a couple of photos of the keynote speakers and the seed sale table. Thanks to Peter Nitzsche for the Truelove Seeds table photo and to Judy Snow for the photo of the keynote speakers at the table.

Click on a photo to view in our photo gallery.

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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.

You can view all our videos in our YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe.

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WATCH PREVIOUS ZOOM PRESENTATIONS

Several of our previously recorded events are available to watch on-line.

See our Prerecorded Events page for more information and to register.

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.

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PARK INFORMATION

• Frelinghuysen, Willowwood and Bamboo Brook Arboreta grounds are open 7 days a week, from 8am to dusk
• The Haggerty Education Center building is open seven days a week from 10 AM to 4 PM, except for Federal holidays. Click here for information and updates.
• HUNTING IN THE PARKS - See the Morris County Park Commission website.

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