The New Jersey Calendar of Events - 2025

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Friends of Frelinghuysen Arboretum Events 2025
Register online for all events.
April 3, 2025 - Taking the Mystery out of Organic Gardening 7pm
Zoom with Rutgers Master Gardener Grace Tshanaskas. Learn how to create and maintain an organic vegetable garden. Topics included: organic definition, understanding soil health, organic seeds, tillage, irrigation, fertilization, and pest/disease management. Limited to 100 people on Zoom. Free, but regitration is required.
April 16 - Container Vegetable Gardening 7pm
Zoom with Rutgers Master Gardener Linda Zenkert. Enjoy fresh vegetables grown in containers on your porch, patio, or balcony. Learn how to plant and grow a variety of vegetables from seed or transplant. Discussion includes information on succession planting, and solutions to common pests and disease problems seen in home gardens.
FREE but registration is required. Limited to 100 people on Zoom.
Friends of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum
Post Office Box 2267
Morristown, NJ 07962
Lisa Bencivengo: lbencivengo@arboretumfriends.net
Margery Ennist: mennist@arboretumfriends.net
973-326-7603, www.arboretumfriends.org www.morrisparks.net

Sussex County Rutgers Cooperative Extension Events 2025
Hours: 7:30-3:30 M-F
Tuesdays, Now to April 22, 2025 - Rutgers Home Gardening Classes
Delve into the science of gardening through 11 classes delivered by experts, with additional content and hands-on activities. Topics include botany, soils, entomology, composting, vegetables, tree fruit, woody plants, herbaceous plants, lawn care, plant pathology and pruning. Available to home gardeners and to those interested in becoming Certified Rutgers Master Gardener Volunteers. After successful completion of the gardening course, Master Gardener Intern volunteers are given additional instruction (at no additional charge) to complete their training. Rutgers Master Gardener volunteers extend the reach of the University across our county through educational programming, demonstrations, projects and Garden Helpline support. Classes held at Extension Ofice. A virtual online option available. Fee: $250. Registration now open January 31, 2025 deadline.
Info, questions and to register,visit https://sussex.njaes.rutgers.edu/garden/
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Lisa Chiariello, Program Associate II
Agribusiness Scholars Program Administrator
130 Morris Turnpike
Newton, NJ 07860
973-948-3040 x 3, lisa.chiariello@rutgers.edu

Greater Newark Conservancy Events 2025
By registering for events, you agree to be photographed. Inform instructor at the beginning if you do not want photos taken of your family! If an event sells out, contact pevans@citybloom.org to be placed on waitlist.
Greater Newark Conservancy
32 Prince Street
Newark
973-642-4646, www.citybloom.org

Glenwild Garden Center Events 2025
April 10 - Create a Beautiful Spring Wreath 6 to 7:30
Girls night out! Create your own beautiful grapevine wreath with your choice of succulents, shells, silk flowers, natural moss, a spring bow, and more. Bring a friend and your beverage of choice. We do have ‘glassware’ for your use. Fee. Register online.
Garden Center Classes
Register in advance online. Participants receive a 10% discount on most purchases that day. Private Classes Available. Sign up for our emails for up-to-date information.
Glenwild Garden Center
104 Glenwild Avenue
Bloomingdale
973-838-0174, https://glenwildgardens.com/

New Jersey Botanical Gardens Events 2025
The New Jersey State Botanical Garden at Skylands, on both State and National Registers of Historic Places, is open 8-6 every day. Admission and parking are free in winter, spring and fall.
March 30 - Audubon: Creating a Certified Wildlife Garden 1
Don Torino of the Bergen County Audubon Society offers an indoor presentation on Creating a Certified Wildlife Garden. Learn how to welcome birds, butterflies, and wildlife into your garden by providing native plants, water, cover and food. At the Carriage House Visitor Center. FREE
New Jersey State Botanical Garden
Morris Road, Ringwood
973-962-9534, www.njbg.org

The Garden Conservancy Events 2025
April 1 - The Land Is Full: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects 2pm Eastern
Live on Zoom. Thomas Woltz, Senior Principal and Owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, will use the firm's just-released monograph to reflect on complex histories held in the land and how the firm reveals and engages them. NBW is one of the leading firms working in landscape architecture today, with major commissions across the US and abroad. Hear how, through the firm's research-based process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed and integrated into meaningful public experiences. The Land Is Full: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects is a collection of twelve major parks that illustrate the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. The Land Is Full features projects that engage exceptionally sensitive sites, including those that hold vital histories of enslaved peoples, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples, and natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction. $5/members; $!% non-members. Register online.
Digging Deeper Programs
An offshoot of Garden Conservancy Open Days™, Digging Deeper is an exclusive and site-specific program—including informal talks, tours, and demonstrations with experts—that invites Open Days participants to take a closer look at the garden world. Register online.
Open Days
Since 1995, Open Days has welcomed more than 1.4 million visitors into thousands of inspired private landscapes in 41 states. Purchase tickets online.

A 2-acre garden for all seasons that has been created and fine-tuned for more than two decades. Owners have collaborated with noted landscape designer Richard Hartlage. Principally a stroll garden, there are small rooms, seating areas, private nooks, impressive vistas. Drifts of hakonechloa soften strong architectural underpinnings of the garden, and many brilliant and original plant combinations will thrill the horticulturist. A collection of sculptures, artworks, and commissioned pieces is interspersed throughout as accent points and disarming bits of humor. See thousands of early spring flowering bulbs. Nutley
April 26 - Deb's Garden 10 to 4
My garden features about 150 species of native flowers, bushes, and trees that bloom from late March until November. I also still grow a few favorite plants from other countries, like Daffodils and Peonies. Montclair
April 26 - So Near And Yet So Far 10-4
On 1/4 acre, on the way to the Meditation Garden, walk curving grass paths and also brick paths surrounded by climbing roses, Baptisia, smoke bush, Japanr=ese maples, and many other sites to soak into both built and growing with blossoms and stature.
Montclair
Garden Conservancy
11 Old Post Road
Cold Spring
[url=http://www.gardenconservancy.org]www.gardenconservancy.org[

Native Plant Society of New Jersey Events 2025
To Register: www.essex@npsnj.org
Upcoming Events
April 5 - Signs of Spring Walk 10-11:30
Meet at Turtle Back Rock Parking Lot, South Mountain Reservation, West Orangewww.npsnj.org

Mansion in May 2025
May 1 through May 31 - Wildfair
The Women's Association for Morristown Medical Center has selected 36 leading interior design firms for its 2025 Mansion in May Designer Showhouse and Gardens to be held at Wildfair in Chester Township, NJ. Designers will contribute their time and talent to transform and showcase their unique spaces on opening day, May 1, 2025. Funds raised by Mansion in May 2025 will support the new Proton Therapy Center at Morristown Medical Center. More info and tickets (available now) online at: mansioninmay.org
Women's Association for Morristown Medical Center
www.mansioninmay.org

Macculloch Hall Historical Museum & Gardens Events 2025
Gardens are open to the public for free every day from 9 to 5.
May 10, 2025 - National Public Gardens Day 10:00 am-1:00 pm
This free celebration features special presentations, nature scavenger hunts, and art activities in the garden.
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum & Gardens
45 Macculloch Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07960
Questions: info@maccullochhall.org, 973-538-2404
www.maccullochhall.org

Women Gardeners of Ridgewood Events 2025
June 8, 2025 - Secret Gardens Tour 10 to 4
Rain or Shine. This year is our 100th Anniversary celebration. Plan to spend a delightful day on a self-guided tour of nine very special gardens that reflect the unique personalities and properties of each homeowner. The tour includes refreshments and our much loved bargain Potting Shed featuring a variety of garden themed items including a member plant sale at The Stable, 259 N. Maple Avenue, Ridgewood. Several ways to buy tickets. One: on sale beginning April 24 through June 6 for $50 cash or check at Backyard Living, 235 Franklin Avenue, Ridgewood. Two: Reserve tickets by mail with check payable to Women Gardeners of Ridgewood and mailed to WGR, PO Box 357, Ridgewood, NJ 07451. Include name, address, phone, email and number. *Checks must be received by June 2. Three: website: www.womengardenersofridgewood.com and picked up at Ridgewood Public Library, 125 N. Maple Ave. via parking lot entrance on June 7, 10 - 2, and June 8, 9 - 1. Four: Additional tickets available on June7 or 8 for $55 cash or check.
Women Gardeners of Ridgewood
www.womengardenersofridgewood.com/

Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council Events 2025
For all classes, get more info and to register: www.scahc.org/Workshops-and-Classes/
Sussex County Arts & Heritage Council
133 Spring Street, Newton
973-383-0027

Home Garden Club of Morristown Events 2025
pdv51@optonline.net

Leonard J Buck Garden Events 2025
Leonard J. Buck Garden
Layton Road
Far Hills
908 722-1200 ext. 5011
www.somersetcountyparks.net

Morven Museum and Garden Events 2025
Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 to 4.
Morven
55 Stockton Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
www.morven.org

Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum Events 2025
Laurelwood Arboretum
725 Pines Lake Drive, West Wayne
www.laurelwoodarboretum.org
info@laurelwoodarboretum.org or 973-831-5675

The Montclair Foundation/Van Vleck House & Gardens Events 2025
21 Van Vleck Street • Montclair, NJ 07042
info@vanvleck.org
vanvleck.org[http://www.vanvleck.org]

Somerset County Environmental Education Center Events 2025
Somerset County Park Commission
www.somersetcountyparks.org
908-722-1200.
Sunset View Farm Events 2024
Sunset View Farm
27 Pierce Road
Lafayette NJ 07848

Lord Stirling Stable Events 2025
Saturdays - Weekly Dog Walks 9:45
Regular Walks Sign in at 9:45. Fast Walks Sign in at 9:15. Run by the Friends of Lord Stirling Stable and Somerset County Park Commission. Explore beautiful equestrian trails of Lord Stirling Stable. Guided trail walks last for approximately one hour. Masks must be worn prior to start of walk but are optional on the trails. Social distancing must be maintained. All pets must be leashed and kept under control at all times. Traditional fee of $3/dog is waived at this time. Donations welcome.
Lord Stirling Stable
256 South Maple Avenue
Basking Ridge
Info: Barbara at 908-448-8348, kb2krx@yahoo.com
Directions: 908-722-1200, ext. 5010

American Society of Landscape Architects - New Jersey Events 2025
New Jersey Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects
414 River View Plaza
Trenton
609-393-7500

Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum Events 2025
Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Avenue
Lakewood
732-987-2373

Sussex County Garden Club Events 2025
The Garden Club meets on 3rd Thursday of each month, unless otherwise noted, in the Conference Room at Fredon Municipal Building, 443 Rt.94 South.
www.sussexcountygc.org
Fredon
info@sussexcountygc.org

Gardeners of Somerset Valley Events 2025
Gardeners of Somerset Valley
North Branch Reformed Church
181 Carol Jean Way
Branchburg, NJ 08876
Info::(908) 722-4759 Cell: Fred (908) 797-5711 Jane (908) 872-8865
www.wegarden.org

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