The New Jersey Calendar of Events

August 29 - Build-A-Bog Workshop 11-1
With Carnivorous Plant expert Jason Austin. Leave workshop with beautiful bog in 16" crescent pot with 10 plants including pitcher, cranberry, swamp pink.
RareFind Nursery Inc.
957 Patterson Road
Jackson
732-833-0613, support@rarefindnursery.com, www.rarefindnursery.com

Frelinghuysen Arboretum 2009 Events
Month of July - Focus on Scotland
Celebration of Scottish gardening traditions includes talks, tastings, tours, exhibits, demonstrations and live music. Registration & fee. July 7: Scottie Dog Topiary Class 10-Noon, fee, watch as we plant and purchase your own frame; July 15: Heather: From the Moors to Morristown 1-3, fee. Learn to grow and use heather. Plants available for purchase. July 19: Thrifty Garden Art Swap, 10-1, fee. Trade your unwanted garden art for some new-to-you treasures. Pots, gnomes and pink flamingos welcome. July 19: Speaker Day 2-4:30pm, fee. Scotland's legendary beauty in 2 45-minute talks: Gardens of Scotland & Take the High Road to Scotland. Scottish refreshments served. July 31: Treasure Island Movie Night for Kids 7-9 fee. Scottish childrens classic & Scottish refreshments. Come in costume! July 26: Family Day & Concert, Park Open by Admission Only, Noon-5, fee. Crafts, storytelling, cooking demos, garden tours, talks and Scottish music.
August 5 - Monmouth County Garden Tour 10-4
PLEASE NOTE correct date: August 5. Visit 5 private gardens in Rumson, Fair Haven and Little Silver. Located within Zone 7, the gardens exhibit New Jersey’s landscape history and diversity of species. Just off the Parkway and all within 5 minutes of each other. APLD certified landscape designer at one garden to answer questions about garden design. Haven on Shipee’s Pond: terraced hillside garden overlooking pond and Navesink River. Courtyard gardens, stone path through shrub garden to stone terrace with mixed borders with roses and a profusion of hydrangeas around free form pool and waterfall, terraced gardens down to dock with intimate water views, shade gardens. Shanley Garden: Spacious, luxurious and manicured garden dominated by Mediterranean-style stucco house and grand trees. Atlantic White Cedar, intense, undulating shrub borders, shade gardens, urns of tropicals, spruce-maples grove underplanted with blocks of hydrangea, holly, ericaceous shrubs and hosta. Garden of Green: quiet formality pervades this Rumson garden surrounding recently constructed New England shingle style home. Garden of ornamental grasses and specimen trees, of woman who enjoys personalities of plants, organically-grown landscape, several 20-foot enkianthus, camellia, stewartia, solid beds of cherry laurel, “the wild way back," nursery and trial gardens with shoulder high sea oats. Swallowfield: 1920s house and garden on 2.5-acres. Atlantic white cedar and rose arbor lead to terraced perennial gardens that give immediate sense of nature preserve within structure and formality with native and ornamental plants. Enclosed wildflower meadow with stone path axis through series of symmetrical gardens: milkweed/rose gardens, circle garden of daylilies and Resurrection Lilies, arbor to pond of water lilies, roses, native flowering wetland plants, crepe myrtle. Designated Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Monarch Waystation. Brewer Garden: entire front yard of cedar shake shore home on 2 acres is mosaic of shrub roses, flowering shrubs, perennials, ferns, trees, ground cover like prostrate holly, leucothoe and ice plant. Iron gate leads through green gardens where everything grows huge including mounds of hellebore, giant yews, tall sensitive fern, cherry laurel hedge, pond with woodland garden on its shore. Freeform pool, cabana, and private boardwalk surrounded by mosaic of gardens and paths on Little Silver Creek. Car-pooling encouraged. To register, please call the Arboretum at: 973- 326-7603.
Affiliate Member Programs
The Frelinghuysen Arboretum
53 East Hanover Avenue
Morris Township (across from the County Library)
973-326-7603 or www.morrisparks.net or www.arboretumfriends.org

The Garden Conservancy Events
Rain or shine. $5 per garden.
Open Days Program
The Garden Conservancy
P.O. Box 219
11 Old Postal Road
Cold Spring, NY 10516
(845) 265-5384, 1-888-842-2442
www.gardenconservancy.org or www.opendaysprogram.org

Somerset County Park Commission Events
Colonial Park Events
July 18 - 10th Annual Garden Party 11-3
Lectures, workshops, horticulture staff answers questions. Plants and refreshments available. Music. Free. Suggested donation of $1/person appreciated.
September 12 - Autumn in the Perennial Garden 9-11
Field study of fall blooming perennials. Discuss plant care, gardening techniques, answer gardening questions. In the Perennial Garden, Parking Lot F. Pre-registration required. Fee. Limit 30 people.
Colonial Park
Parking Lot A, East Millstone, Franklin Township
Information: 732-873-2459 ext.21, NJ Relay Service at 711 for hearing or speech impairment.
www.somersetcountyparks.org
Leonard J. Buck Garden Events
July 15 - Ground Covers and Vines – What You Didn’t Know 9:30-11:30
Learn best groundcovers for your garden, examine varieties, their requirements, advantages and disadvantages. Tour of Buck groundcovers and vines follow presentation. Fee. Pre-registration required.
August 11 - Perennials for the Shade Garden 9:30-11:30
Rain date: 8/12. Shade gardening is more necessary as trees grow and spread. Learn about plants that grow successfully in the shade at Buck Garden. Fee. Pre-registration required.
September 17 - Art in the Garden: Watercolors in the Garden 9-3
Rain date 9/18. Nature and wildlife artist Beatrice Bork shows how to capture Buck Garden’s beauty on paper. Learn: choosing a location, paint application, mixing colors, composition, creating a finished watercolor. Basic drawing skills recommended. Call for art supply list; bring lunch. Fee. Pre-registration required.
September 29 - Backyard Composting 10-Noon
Join garden foreman Jim Fleming and learn how to create and produce soil amendments to enrich your garden soil. Different types of composting discussed. Fee. Pre-registration required.
Leonard J. Buck Garden
11 Layton Road in Far Hills
Registration: 908-234-2677 ext. 21 or www.somersetcountyparks.org

Laurelwood Arboretum
July 29 - Propagation Workshop:Learning to Root Almost Anything 11
Led by Dr. Alexander Fitzburgh, president of Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum, past president of NJ Rhododendron Society and Tappan Zee Rhododendron Society. Session features rhododendron, azalea, boxwood, holly, skimmia, other cuttings. FOLA provides materials. Bring your own clippers and gloves. Free
Laurelwood Arboretum
725 Pines Lake Drive West (corner of Vale and Pines Lake Drive)
Wayne
www.laurelwoodarboretum.org or info@laurelwoodarboretum.org

Pinelands Preservation Alliance Events
Pinelands Preservation Alliance
17 Pemberton Road
Southampton
Info & contest rules: 609 859-8860 x24, photocontest@pinelandsalliance.org www.pinelandsalliance.org

Zimmerli Art Museum Events
Now thru July 5 - Into the Garden
Into the Garden: Painted Paper Constructions by Takayo Noda presents complete illustrations and selected preparatory materials for Song of the Flowers by children’s book author/illustrator Takayo Noda. Landscapes, flower and insect forms realized as bold painted-paper relief sculptures. Hands-on activities for visitors. Admission: $3.
Zimmerli Art Museum
71 Hamilton Street (corner of George Street)
Rutgers University
New Brunswick
732.932.7237, ext. 610, www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu

New Jersey Botanical Garden Events
Weekdays - Guided Tours
Tours of the Garden, Manor House or both by reservation for groups of 15 and up. Tours arranged to suit the season and the visiting group. Partially handicap accessible. Fee. Call Anne Thornton: 973-962-9534 for information or to schedule.
Summer Concert Series 7
Bring lawn chair or blanket. If weather is bad, concerts are moved into Carriage House Visitor Center. Donation requested: $3/person. July 10 – Linda Ipanema & the Dixie Cats doing Dixieland, swing and show tunes; July 24 – 3M Band performs acoustic tunes of 60s and 70s and sing-a-longs; August 7 – Bob Leive, Lou Pallo and Patti Rio perform jazz, ragtime, swing era classics and contemporary favorites; August 21 – Brassworks brass quintet plays medieval, classical, ragtime, jazz, big band, Broadway show tunes, and traditional American music.
Botanical Garden at Skylands
Ringwood State Park
Morris Road, Ringwood
973-962-9534, www.njbg.org

Navesink Garden Club Events
Club meets second Tuesday of each month. Meetings free and open to general public. Member of The Garden Club of New Jersey and National Garden Clubs.
Trinity Episcopal Church Parish House
Front Street
Red Bank
Information: Ronnie Lander 732-671-9395

Chester Garden Club Events
Chester
908-234-9749

Rutgers Garden Events
Fridays - Rutgers Garden Farmers Market 1-6
From local produce and honey to gourmet desserts and specialty dairy, Polish meats, and lots more. Click here to learn more about the market:
July 25 - Annual Open House & Wine Tasting Festival 10-4
Tours * Ask the Experts Clinic * Plant Sales * Market Vendors * Hands on Kids Activities * Wine Tasting ($5/person includes souvenir glass. Must be 21 & older.) Day is free with suggested parking donation of $5. Complete schedule of events: http://rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu/openhouse.html
2009 Gardening Series Summer/Fall Classes
July 16-evening in the gardens; September 12 - mushrooms; September 26 - cold frames; October 10 - potting bulbs for forcing; November 19 - harvest centerpieces & garland; December 10 - wreath decorating and boxwood trees
Cook College/Rutgers University
112 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick
Register for classes: 732.932.8451rugardens@aseop.rutgers.edu
732-932-7000 www.rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu/classes.html

Grounds For Sculpture Events
July 9,16,23,30 - Photography Workshop 10:30-12:30
4-session workshop teaches participants to look at photographs in new light while discovering summer beauty of sculpture park. SLR or digital camera required. Fee by registration only.
July 11 thru September 27 - Exhibit: Metalwork of Sandra Webberking
Public reception: July 10, 5-7. An avid gardener, nature is inspiration for Webberking as she creates whimsical creatures including flamingoes, peacocks, and butterflies. Her work focuses in metal, which she was drawn to after developing kinship with bending, heating, hammering and welding. She enjoys the loud dirtiness of her work and breaking gender norms; working in an environment, mastering skills, and using tools traditionally associated with men.
Grounds For Sculpture
18 Fairgrounds Road
Hamilton
609-586-0616, www.groundsforsculpture.org

Plainfield Garden Club Events
Info: www.plainfieldgardenclub.org or www.gcamerica.org

Garden Club of Fair Haven Events
Fair Haven Fire House
River Road, Fair Haven
Further information: 732-842-7904

Catalpa Ridge Farm Events
August 23 - 10th Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting - A Taste of Summer! 1-5
Dozens of heirloom tomato varieties grown by Catalpa Ridge Farm. Plus, Hoboken's famous coal-fired oven bread to hold all those delicious juices or you can use it to dip into fresh salsas, dips & pestos made from Catalpa Ridge's farm fresh ingredients. Heirloom tomatoes, garlic, and other fresh-from-the-farm produce available.
Hoboken Historical Museum.
In the walkway outside the museum between 13th & Hudson.
Info: 201-656-2240, www.jerseygrown.com or jerseygrown@gmail.com
October 3,4 - Garlic Gathering: 7th Annual Garden State Garlic Gathering 11-4
The Garden State Garlic Growers answer your planting & harvesting questions.
Dozens of varieties of garlic for sale that grow well in NJ, plus garlic vinegar, garlic honey, variety packs, sauces & spreads. Free to attend and if you love garlic join the garlic growers & garlic lovers in northern New Jersey for 2 stinking days of fun.
Olde Lafayette Village
Routes 15 & 94 , Lafayette
Info: www.jerseygrown.com or jerseygrown@gmail.com
October 18 - Hoboken: 3rd Annual Garlic Festival 1-5
Free tastings of many garlic varieties, dips, pesto & salsa. Garlic and seasonal farm-fresh produce for sale from Catalpa Ridge Farm. Come join us for a stinkin' day of fun!
Hoboken Historical Museum
In walkway outside museum between 13th & Hudson
www.jerseygrown.com or jerseygrown@gmail.com

Hunterdon Hills Garden Club Events www.hunterdonhillsgardenclub.com or Pat at 236-6666 or Barbara at 236-6621.

Hutcheson Memorial Forest Tours
Tours leave from entrance of the woods on Amwell Road (Rt. 514) in Somerset. Driveway is just past guardrail over the brook. Trail may be muddy so come prepared. Tours are free and reservations are not required for these guided tours. Groups of more than 10 persons must arrange special tours and contact Land Manager, Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center: 732-932-9349x16, hmfdirector@aesop.rutgers.edu
Hutcheson Memorial Forest
2150 Amwell Rd
Somerset
Info: 732-932-3313, woodcreeper@gmail.com

New Jersey Conservation Foundation Events
New Jersey Conservation Foundation
170 Longview Road
Far Hills
Info: www.jnconservation.org 908-234-1225, Carol@njconservation.org

Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension of Middlesex County Events
August 1 - Deadline for Eco- Adventures at the EARTH Center
Middlesex County students entering grades 5 thru 8 invited to attend summer day program held August 24 thru 28 from 9-2. Focus on environmental stewardship with different theme each day. Fee includes materials, snack, beverages, parting gift. Info: (732) 398-5261.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County
EARTH Center
Davidson's Mill Pond Park, South Brunswick
732 398 5262, www.co.middlesex.nj.us/extensionservices

Palisades Interstate Park Commission Events
Hikes held "drizzle or shine" - heavy or steady precipitation may cancel. To confirm on morning of hike if conditions seem questionable, call 201 768-1360 ext 107.
Friends of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Bear Mountain
845.786.2701, admin@friendsofpalisades.org
www.friendsofpalisades.org

Pequest Trout Hatchery Events
NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife
Pequest Trout Hatchery
605 Pequest Road
Oxford
908-637-4125

Camden Children's Garden Events
Camden Children's Garden
3 Riverside Drive, Camden
856.365.TREE (8733), info@CamdenChildrensGarden.org
www.camdenchildrensgarden.org

Reeves Reed Arboretum Events
Reeves-Reed Arboretum
165 Hobart Avenue
Summit
908.273.8787, www.reeves-reedarboretum.org

Morven Events
Morven Museum & Garden
55 Stockton Street, Princeton
Reservations: 609-924-8144 x106, info@morven.org
www.morven.org