On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA April-May 2016 | Page 13

REGIONAL NEWS & NOTES

In Delaware, the Mt. Cuba Center is celebrating spring wildflowers April 24, National
Public Garden Day, May 6 and special programs for the Hockessin Business (Delaware)
Association’s Second Saturday series. For
more on events at Mt. Cuba, go to mtcubacenter.org.
Kirk R. Brown continues his three-hat-trickand-stick travels across the country. John
Bartram delivers keynotes to the Northeast
Rhododendron Society annual meeting at
the Whitemarsh Country Club in Lafayette
Hill, Pennsylvania, April 16, as well as at the
National Meeting of the Rhododendron and
Azaleas Societies in Williamsburg, Virginia,
April 22. Frederick Law Olmsted turns heads
and hats for The Bridge of Hope annual dinner in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 30, and
for the Twin Valley Garden Club at the Henrietta Hankin Library, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, May 11. Kirk shares the stage with
Frederick at the Maryland Landscape Design
School, Annapolis, Maryland, April 26, as they
give three hours of lectures for a certification
course sponsored by the National Garden
Clubs. Frederick gives the keynote presentation for the Garden Clubs of New Jersey,
Bridgewater, New Jersey, June 9, and for the
Wellfleet Garden Club, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, June 15. Kirk begins a cycle of six, new,
two-hour courses on “Lifestyle Landscaping”
for an adult education series at Northampton
Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He was the featured instructor in the
college’s March 14 newsletter.
Ruth Rogers Clausen is a speaker at the
Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland Design
School at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland, April 26.
In New Jersey, Rutgers Gardens have centennial celebrations throughout 2016, kicking off
with the Spring Flower Plant Sales, May 6-8.
For more information about the centennial
celebrations and the plant sale, visit rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu.
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