Fall Flurry in a Country Garden
Thursday, September 25, 2008
1 to 4 p.m.
Then and Now: Great Historic Gardens of Northern New Jersey
Marta McDowell
A look at the past and present of this area’s former grand gardens dating from 1890 to 1940. Ms. McDowell will use both vintage and current photographs to illustrate her subject. She will explore the golden age of gardens as it occurred in this region and recount the lives of the estate owners who socialized with each other and knew some of the notable landscape designers of the day, including Frederick Law Olmsted, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Beatrix Farrand and others. Among the owners, including William Redmond Cross and his wife, Julia Appleton Newbold Cross, were the Fosterfield and Twombly families. She will also note how the quintessential period designs and plantings can be applied to today’s home gardens or serve as inspiration. The lecture will be followed by traditional cream tea and tours of the Cross Estate Gardens.
Available for purchase to benefit the non-profit NJHGF will be planted “crazy containers” and “Go Green! Buy your own tea cup!” featuring bone china tea cups and saucers in floral patterns donated from private collections.
Admission is $25 for members, $30 for non-members. All proceeds assist in the preservation of the Cross Estate Gardens. To register, please download the Registration Form and mail it with your check.
Holiday Wreath Workshop
Sunday, December 7, 2008, 1 to 3 p.m.
Carolyn Lydon will once again teach her popular wreath-making workshop in the Cross Estate library. Each participant will make and take home a stunning, unique wreath of natural plant seeds, cones, branches, dried flowers and fruits.
Fee: Members $60; Non-Members $70. To register, please download the Registration Form and mail it with your check.
Garden Tours
If you would like a tour of the garden,
visit us any Wednesday
between 9 a.m. and noon,
when the volunteers will be working.
For more information, please call Joan Ryder, (973) 376-0348.