Club Trip to Susquehanna Park, MD

Cynthia LaPara offers the following info.....

On April 18th, 8 members of the Four Seasons Garden Club of Kennett Square and their guests visited Susquehanna Park, in Maryland. We saw bald eagles and other water birds, and a bald eagle’s nest, with both parents coming and going, bringing food for the young. Then we walked along the path by the river, where native plants were blooming in their native habitat. The weather was beautiful and the flowers were near their peak. In all, we saw or heard 18 species of birds and identified 29 species of plants, most of them native and most in bloom. The high points of the trip were seeing the activity at the bald eagle’s nest and walking through a field of Virginia bluebells. We ended the trip with a stop at the Spready Oak Country Café on Route 1 for lunch. Great trip!!

May Programs at Mt. Cuba

Join us on Saturday, May 16 at 1 PM to hear renowned native plant expert Richard Bir share his life's work in this illustrated lecture, Demystifying Native Plants. Learn about wonderful shrubs like azaleas, mountain laurel, hydrangeas, redbuds and more. Dick will also discuss such timely issues as "What is a native plant?", the effect of climate change on native plants, and habitat destruction. He will also touch on the topic of cultivars. Dick has long been a champion of the native plant movement and was a founder of the well-known Cullowhee Native Plant Conference in North Carolina. He is a horticulturist, conservationist, and faculty emeritus from the Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University and author of "Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody Plants." If you are a native plant enthusiast, you will love this lecture.

On Thursday, May 21, Phil Oyerly will guide visitors on a magical evening walk through Mt. Cuba Center's gardens to view our outstanding lady's slipper orchid collection with the class In Praise of Cypripedium. Learn which lady's slipper orchids you can grow in your own backyard. Hope to see you there.

For more information and to register for these and other classes, please visit www.mtcubacenter.org or call us at 302-239-4244.

Sincerely, Eileen BoyleEducation Coordinator

Club Program - 'Greening of America--Our Roofs'

An illustrated lecture by Jeff Jabco
Coordinator of Horticulture, The Scott Arboretum, and
Director of Grounds, Swarthmore College

Jeff is an instructor at Longwood Gardens where he teaches a four-course Botany series in the Certificate in Ornamental Plants program, courses in landscape design and construction, and is an instructor for the two-year Longwood Professional Gardener program.
He has written for Fine Gardening magazine; Green Scene, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s magazine; American Nurseryman; and The Hybrid, the quarterly publication of the Scott Arboretum. He is co-founder and vice-president of the Mid-Atlantic Peony Society.
He lives in Swarthmore, PA, where he tends an ever-changing garden featuring a cottage-style border, a bog, an extensive dry-stone wall and an ever-increasing number of plants to trial.

JEFFREY P. JABCO 610-328-8294
Director of Grounds
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, SWARTHMORE, PENNSYLVANIA 19081(610) 328-8000 FAX (610) 328-8574
Approx. cost $150.00

Recommended by Graham Boose of Garden Class of the Woman's Community Club of Uwchlan