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DIG IT! Magazine Events 2024
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Glenwild Garden Center Events 2024
March 19 - Vernal Equinox Celebration 5-7
Join us in the greenhouse with live music by Holly Stewart; enjoy floral teas and sparkling refreshments while surrounded by fragrant blooms of spring. Sale onEaster & Spring Garden Accessories. Free pansy plant with purchase.
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/

Greater Newark Conservancy Events 2024
March 12 - Newark Grows School Gardens Workshop, Greedy Gardener 4-5:30
Get comfortable preparing, cooking, and eating with your students and learn all the basics of good nutrition to get students started in a lifetime of good health. Free. Register online.
Greater Newark Conservancy
32 Prince Street
Newark
973-642-4646, www.citybloom.org

Morven Museum and Garden Events 2024
Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 to 4.
Now thru March 27 - Annual Grand Homes & Gardens Speaker Series 6:30
Theme: State-ly Homes: Exploring U.S. Governors’ Mansions and Gardens. From refurbished sites of historical significance to bespoke masterpieces, the grand homes and gardens of U.S. governors offer a unique glimpse into how architecture, interior design, and landscapes can serve a civic purpose. Join Morven, NJ’s first executive mansion, as we explore four current governors' mansions in NJ, Virginia, Hawai’i, and Maine. Learn how they were created to embody the state and the people they seek to represent.
Location: Morven’s Stockton Education Center. Doors and virtual waiting room open at 6. A Zoom link will be sent to all virtual participants upon registration. Light refreshments inspired by each state will be provided for in-person attendees. All programs will be recorded and shared with registrants following each event.
Fee. Register online. Tickets for the Drumthwacket program on March 5 include an option to tour Drumthwacket on March 7 at 10:30 or 11:30 am.
March 13 - First House: Virginia’s Executive Mansion 6:30
Presented by historian Mary Miley Theobald, author of First House: Two Centuries with Virginia’s First Families. First inhabited in 1813 by Governor James Barbour, the mansion is the oldest continuously occupied governors’ residence in the US. The Federal style mansion has accommodated more than fifty first families. In 1990, Virginia’s executive mansion became the residence of L. Douglas Wilder, the first elected Black governor in America since Reconstruction.
March 20 - Washington Place: The People’s Home of Hawai’i 6:30
Presented virtually from Hawai’i by Travis Hancock, Curator of Washington Place. This National Historic Landmark is the only official governor’s residence in the U.S. states that was also home to a monarch. Queen Lili’uokalani, Hawai’i’s last reigning monarch, moved into Washington Place in 1862 as the bride of John Owen Dominis, son of Captain John and Mary Dominis, the couple who built the mansion. It remained her private residence until her death in 1917. Washington Place was home to Hawai’i’s territorial and statehood governors from 1918 to 2002.
March 27 - Blaine House: Home to Maine’s Governors
Presented virtually from Maine by Earle Shettleworth, State Historian. Setting to one of the most wide-ranging careers in the history of American politics, The Blaine House is an architectural gem. In 1862, the house became the residence of James G. Blaine who went on to serve as a Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and, finally, a Republican candidate for president in 1884. The home was donated to the state of Maine in 1919 by Blaine’s daughter, Harriet Blaine Beale.
Morven
55 Stockton Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
www.morven.org


New Jersey Botanical Gardens Events 2024
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. A $5/car State Park parking fee ($7 out-of-state) on summer weekends and holidays. Summer weekday parking is free.
March 16 - End-of-Winter Tree Walk 10
Former NJBG Head Landscape Designer Rich Flynn leads this perennial favorite. The walk includes many stunning specimens, learn the differences between trees, how to tell them apart, and how to use them in your garden. Meet at the Carriage House; wear sturdy, comfortable shoes.
March 17 - Family Woodland Hike 1
Join NJBG hike leaders on easy, child-friendly hike in the Garden's woodlands. Learn a bit about the plants and animals around you on a hike designed to fit the group. Wear sturdy shoes, meet at the Carriage House. Snow/rain cancels. Free.
March 23 - Spring Wreath-Making Workshops 10 & 1
In these two hands-on workshops learn how to assemble and decorate spring wreaths to brighten your home, using a variety of silk and dried materials. As you learn, you'll make a wreath to take home with you. Materials provided; bring clippers and any special ribbon or decorations you might wish to use. Light refreshments. Reservations required. Fee: Register online at njbg.org.
March 24 - Audubon: Attracting Hummingbirds to Your Yard 1
Don Torino, President, Bergen County Audubon Society gives presentation on how to attract these magnificent flying jewels to your backyard. Learn about symbiotic relationship between hummingbirds and the native plants they depend upon. At the Carriage House Visitor Center. Free.
New Jersey State Botanical Garden
Morris Road, Ringwood
973-962-9534, www.njbg.org
Friends of Frelinghuysen Arboretum Events 2024
Register online for all events.
March 20 - Cooking Demo: Springtime Favorites with Cynthia Triolo 1
Join Chef Cynthia Triolo for a fun afternoon, sample the goodies and take recipes home. We’ll use lavender, arugula, rhubarb and other spring veggies. Limited to 24 participants. Fee.
Questions: mennist@arboretumfriends.net or lbencivengo@arboretumfriends.net
March 23 - Pruning Workshop 10-Noon
with Bruce Crawford, Manager of Horticulture, Morris County Park Commission. Learn the science behind pruning and what tools to use. Practice your new skills on the trees and shrubs in the gardens. Dress for the weather; bring garden gloves and pruners. Fee: $20 Location: Willowwood Arboretum Register online at Book online at www.tinyurl.com/MCPCadult Questions: 973.326.7601
April 3 - Presentation: Native Ferns for Northern New Jersey 7pm
Jean Epiphan shares the diversity of ferns indigenous to Northern NJ, their ecological importance, and environmental benefits. Topics: characteristics in detail, how to identify and differentiate them, site preferences and tolerances, plus how to best incorporate them into your garden and landscape. Jean is an Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent and Associate Professor, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Morris County. FREE, but registration required online.
June 5 - Botanic Gardens from Coast to Coast and What We Can Learn from Them 7
Join intrepid garden traveler, obsessive gardener and past Friends President, Sue Acheson, on a Zoom tour of Botanic Gardens from Coast to Coast. See seven public gardens from California, Colorado, Missouri, Pennsylvania. and North Carolina, in all seasons and in a broad range of climate zones. Zoom link will be emailed to you day before event. Free to Members but registration is required. Non-members/$5.
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

March 20 - Presentation: Gardening with Perennials- Plants with Dividends 1
Home Garden Club of Morristown hosts Gail Di Domenico, Rutgers Cooperative Extension's Master Gardener. Gail will discuss how to plant, dig up and divide perennials. Location: Morris County Library
Info and register: pdv51@optonline.net

Women Gardeners of Ridgewood Garden Club Events 2024
April 6, 2024 - Gardeners Day 11:30
Spend Gardeners Day with Page Dickey, renowned garden designer and author, as she presents Uprooted - A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again -- her journey to a more natural, native plant way of gardening. Check-in at 11:30 for time to shop a treasure trove of vintage jewelry and seasonal plants. At Noon, a light gourmet luncheon is provided followed by our speaker, Page Dickey, a short Q & A, book signing and more shopping. At: West Side Presbyterian Church, corner of W Ridgewood Avenue and Monroe Street, Ridgewood. Ticket info coming soon online.
Women Gardeners of Ridgewood
www.womengardenersofridgewood.com/

The Garden Conservancy Events 2024
2024 National Speaking Tour
The National Speaking Tour brings leading thinkers and practitioners within the world of gardening to audiences throughout the US. Tour speaker Edmund Hollander, president of Hollander Design Landscape Architects, and partners discuss the changing beauty, refuge, and joy that outdoor spaces provide with examples from their portfolio, from sprawling coastal retreats to country estates.
Open Days
Since 1995, Open Days has welcomed more than 1.4 million visitors into thousands of inspired private landscapes—from urban rooftops to organic farms, historic estates, to innovative suburban lots—in 41 states. Purchse tickets online.
April 13, May 4, June 1, September 7 - Mountsier Garden 10-4
Two-acre garden for all seasons created and fine-tuned over two decades. Owners Silas Montsier and Graeme Hardie have collaborated with noted landscape designer and friend Richard Hartlage, and the result is a feast for the eyes and the senses. Principally a stroll garden with numerous focal points, small rooms, seating areas, private nooks, and impressive vistas. Drifts of Japanese forest grass soften strong architectural underpinnings of the garden, and brilliant and plant combinations will thrill the devoted horticulturist. A collection of sculptures, artworks, and commissioned pieces is interspersed throughout as accent points and disarming bits of humor. From thousands of early spring flowering bulbs to a subtle but glorious display of green on green in the early fall, there is something new to see and enjoy on every visit.
Garden Conservancy
11 Old Post Road
Cold Spring
www.gardenconservancy.org
845-265-2029

Sussex County Rutgers Cooperative Extension Events 2024
Hours: 7:30-3:30 M-F
April 19 - What's Wrong with my Plant?! 11-1
Diagnosing plant problems continuing education event presented by the Rutgers Master Gardener Lunch and Learn & Helpline Teams. Friends and family welcome. Please feel free to share with garden clubs and community garden members as well. Let's build a gardening community where we share and learn together. Please join us!
Please RSVP using the link below to be sure we have enough space and materials for attendees. Location: RCE Sussex office, 130 Morris Turnpike, Newton
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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

Friends of Laurelwood Arboretum Events 2024
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 2023
21 Van Vleck Street • Montclair, NJ 07042
info@vanvleck.org
vanvleck.org[http://www.vanvleck.org]


Somerset County Environmental Education Center Events 2023
Somerset County Park Commission
www.somersetcountyparks.org
908-722-1200.

Native Plant Society of New Jersey Events 2024

Sunset View Farm Events 2024
Sunset View Farm
27 Pierce Road
Lafayette NJ 07848

Lord Stirling Stable Events 2024
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 2024
New Jersey Chapter American Society of Landscape Architects
414 River View Plaza
Trenton
609-393-7500

Leonard J Buck Garden Events 2024
Gardens open. Leonard J Buck Garden hours: Monday-Friday 10-4. Colonial Park Gardens Arboretum: dawn to dusk, Rose Garden open 8-dusk. Visitor Centers, Horticulture Dept. offices and all restrooms are closed.
Leonard J. Buck Garden
Layton Road
Far Hills
908 722-1200 ext. 5011
www.somersetcountyparks.net

Mansion in May 2024
Women's Association for Morristown Medical Center
www.mansioninmay.org

Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum Events 2024
Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Avenue
Lakewood
732-987-2373

Sussex County Garden Club Events 2024
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 2024
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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