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Adkins Arboretum Offers iNaturalist Training for Teachers

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
June 17, 2013

Teachers seeking inventive ways to engage students in the study of nature and ecology are invited to join iNaturalist for Teachers, offered Fri., June 28 at Adkins Arboretum.

iNaturalist is a free and open-source online community that teachers can use to reinforce Maryland State Department of Education STEM and environmental literacy standards. The perfect interface between nature and technology users, the program encourages users to observe and describe the natural world around them, to follow their curiosity, and to share their experiences with others. iNaturalist provides a public online forum where students’ field observations can be cross-checked by a community of fellow enthusiasts and global experts.

Led by naturalists Matt Muir and Margan Glover, this program is geared to high school science teachers. The session will provide hands-on examination of iNaturalist, field work on a variety of habitats to explore the strength of iNaturalist as a tool for exploration, and a discussion of ways in which iNaturalist can be incorporated creatively in curriculum development and meet STEM and environmental literacy standards. Refreshments will be served; participants should bring a bag lunch. The program fee is $20 per teacher. Advance registration is required at adkinsarboretum.org or by calling 410.634.2847, ext. 0.

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“Chrome City” Cycle Ride to Help Kids with Disabilities

Posted on June 16, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Benedictine School
Ridgely, MD
June 2013

Gleaming motorcycles, awesome street rods, classic and custom cars will roar in from all over the region to the Benedictine School in Ridgely for the highly anticipated 12th Annual Chrome City Ride on Sunday July 28, 2013. The event will fund tuition assistance for children, and opportunities to work and live in the community for adults with disabilities. Organized and produced by volunteers primarily from state and local law enforcement, the previous eleven years of Chrome City Rides have raised over a million dollars.

“Chrome City Ride is a wonderful opportunity not only to raise needed money, but for our friends to come here, meet our special people, and see what a great place this is,” said Benedictine’s Executive Director Scott Evans. “The kids and everyone here look forward to when the motorcycles and cars come up the lane onto our campus. It is a spectacle, but we especially appreciate that the riders return year after year. Our friends mean a lot to us.”

Owners of impressive cars and bikes from all over Maryland and Delaware will gather at various designated locations, then cruise in convoys with police escorts to the Benedictine School campus. The $25-per-rider pledge provides each rider with an official Ride T-shirt, a delicious catered lunch, entertainment (including the return of “Rockin’ Elvis”), a chance for prizes and trophies, and a day of fun showing off their chrome to an appreciative crowd. Spectators are also welcome, and their $25 minimum contribution also provides them with an official Ride T-shirt, lunch and a day of fun. The riders and their machines are expected to arrive on campus around 11:30 AM.

For online registration and further information on the 12th Annual Chrome City Ride, visit our web site www.benschool.org. You may also call the Benedictine Foundation at 410-634-2292 for information on times, rally point locations, registration, and more.

Benedictine Programs and Services is located near Ridgely, Maryland, with educational, residential, and day services for children ages 5 through 21. In addition, Benedictine operates state-licensed group homes throughout Maryland and Delaware and provides supported employment for adults with disabilities. The organization was founded by the Sisters of St. Benedict and is recognized nationally for its pioneering approach to educating and caring for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Benedictine is a fully approved, non-sectarian service provider serving children and adults without regard to racial, ethnic, or religious background.

For more information about Benedictine, please call 410-634-2292 or visit us online at www.benschool.org.

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Unity Church Hill Nursery to Host Adkins Arboretum Day on June 15, 2013

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
June 6, 2013

Celebrate a unique partnership and learn about native plants, sustainability, and gardening inspiration when Unity Church Hill Nursery hosts Adkins Day, a full day of speakers and demonstrations, on Sat., June 15.

From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., participants can enjoy a series of talks and activities. Maryland Master Naturalist and Certified Professional Horticulturist Robyn Affron will present “Wildlife Gardening” at 11:30 a.m. Nancy Robson, a well-known author and garden writer, will discuss “Sustainable Stormwater Management” at 12:30 p.m. At 1:15 p.m., landscape designer Neenah Newell will present “Wall Pocket Gardening.”

Nationally known garden writer Barbara W. Ellis will discuss “Sustainable Gardens and Landscape: One Step at a Time” at 2 p.m., and Unity president Michael Jensen will present “Shoreline and Erosion Control on Waterfront Properties” at 3 p.m.

From 1 to 3 p.m., Arboretum Youth Program Coordinator Jenny Houghton will offer a nature exploration activity area for children. All are welcome at this free event, held at Unity Church Hill Nursery at 3621 Church Hill Road (Route 213), Church Hill. Complimentary refreshments will be served, and the trio Driven Women will perform old-time Appalachian music throughout the day. For more information, call Adkins Arboretum at 410.634.2847, ext. 0 or Unity Church Hill Nursery at 410.556.6010.

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Walking into Light, Landscape iPhoneography by Karen Klinedinst, on view at Adkins Arboretum

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
June 6, 2013

Karen Klinedinst “paints” with her iPhone. Each landscape she creates glows with the breathtaking beauty and nuanced details of nineteenth century Romantic paintings. On view at Adkins Arboretum Visitor’s Center through Aug. 2, they capture trees, meadows and waterways in a magical dance of light and shadow. There will be a reception on Sat., June 22 from 3 to 5 p.m. to meet the artist.

“Winter, North Meadow” is one of several works shot at Adkins Arboretum. Light plays across its bending grasses and silhouettes the delicate needles of its pine trees, while white clouds touched with gold spread across a cerulean blue sky. But this is not just a photograph. You can practically see “brushstrokes” in the seed heads of the grasses and the textures of the clouds.

“It’s not straight photography,” Klinedinst explained. “I’m interpreting what I’m seeing. I shoot everything with my iPhone, and I also use the iPhone to process the images by using many different apps. Sometimes they’re made out of multiple images stitched together, then I layer textures and colors until I get them exactly how I envisioned them.”

Printed with archival ink on bamboo fiber paper, “Golden Tree” captures one of her favorite trees growing amid the rolling hills of her family’s land in Pennsylvania. Ghostly textures resembling intricate tree branches or grasses are woven into the image. They create a sense of time and memory and reveal Klinedinst’s deep feeling for the landscape she has visited all her life.

Walking and image-making are Klinedinst’s two great loves, so every weekend she leaves her home in Baltimore to visit parks or mountains. Taking her iPhone along, she photographs the landscape and processes her images right there in the field.

Klinedinst said, “I’m a big walker and I do a lot of hiking, so that’s part of the process of just being there and experiencing and moving through the landscape. And with the phone it’s just so freeing and unencumbered. I don’t have to go back to my studio and sit in front of my computer screen. I can do it there.”

Capturing the feeling of a landscape is all-important for Klinedinst. In “The Advent of Spring,” you instantly feel the primordial stirrings of new life as woodland flowers bloom and skunk cabbages spread their broad leaves along the Arboretum’s winding creek. With shadowed edges reminiscent of a vintage photograph, “Day’s End” has an achingly beautiful clarity and sense of passing time as pale wintry light filters through its bare waterside trees.

A graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, Klinedinst feels a strong affinity with two schools of art that emerged in the nineteenth century. Reacting to the rise of science and industrialization, Romantic painters focused on the emotional and spiritual power of untamed nature. Pictorialism developed as artists took photography beyond the mere recording of factual images to develop its creative and interpretive possibilities.

Likewise, Klinedinst turns her high-tech iPhone and up-to-the-minute apps into tools for exploring the intangible emotional qualities of the landscape. Like a plein air painter, she works outdoors studying the landscape and its changing moods firsthand. What she brings to light is the magic of our shared relationship with the land, something that most of us don’t take the time to consider as we live our hurried lives.

This show is part of Adkins Arboretum’s ongoing exhibition series of work on natural themes by regional artists. It is on view through August 2 at the Arboretum Visitor’s Center located at 12610 Eveland Road near Tuckahoe State Park in Ridgely. Contact the Arboretum at 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or info@adkinsarboretum.org for gallery hours.

Photo: “Winter, North Meadow” is one of Karen Klinedinst’s landscapes, all shot and edited with her iPhone, on view through Aug. 2 at Adkins Arboretum.

“Winter, North Meadow” is one of Karen Klinedinst’s landscapes, all shot and edited with her iPhone, on view through Aug. 2 at Adkins Arboretum. Submitted Photo

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Tree Tricks, site-specific sculpture by Howard and Mary McCoy, on view at Adkins Arboretum

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
June 4, 2013

Walk a few yards into the cool, leafy shade of Adkins Arboretum’s forest and you’ll see something odd. Vines climb high into the trees in a tangle of green, but in one area along the path they’re chopped off right at eye level. The 32 tall pines and young saplings rescued from being choked by vines form a site-specific sculpture called “Cropped.”

Centreville artists Howard and Mary McCoy have created nine sculptures for Tree Tricks, their eighth outdoor sculpture show at the Arboretum. Each is site-specific, inspired by a certain place in the forest. The artists will lead a sculpture walk during the show’s reception on Sat., June 22 from 3 to 5 p.m.

Because the McCoys have been creating outdoor art at Adkins Arboretum every other year since 1999, they’ve come to know the forest well.

“Some of these trees are old friends,” said Mary. “We’ve watched them grow and change over the years. Some have fallen in storms. The forest never stays the same, so it’s always giving us new ideas for sculptures.”

The two artists get not only their ideas from the woods but their materials as well. Fallen branches, dead trees, vines and seedpods all become elements in their sculpture.

For “Bristling,” the McCoys gathered hundreds of small branches and inserted them along the length of a fallen tree so that they look like wildly animated plants sprouting from the decaying wood. Beside another path, a small dead sweet gum tree became a sculpture when they blanketed a section of it with dozens of sweet gum seedpods and titled it “Gum Wrapper.”

“Some of the pieces do have a humorous aspect,” said Howard. “We decided to call the show Tree Tricks because we had a lot of fun with it. We’ve become more and more interested in how our pieces blend with the nature around them and how you have to do a kind of double take sometimes to see—is it natural or is it one of the McCoys’ pieces?”

Change is an important theme for these artists. Whether they’re interrupting the growth cycle by cutting vines away or giving a dead tree “new life” by adding branches to it, the changing seasons and the cycles of birth, growth, death, decay and rebirth are recurring subjects in their work. They’re also interested in the sudden changes brought by unexpected events such as storms.

When a storm uprooted a towering tree last summer and wedged it against a slope with its trunk ten feet above one of the Arboretum’s paths, it formed a kind of gateway into the deep forest. For the McCoys, it was an invitation to make sculpture. Since the tree was a sweet gum, they fastened a long line of gumballs in a fringe along its underside and called it “Gumball Crossing.”

“Sometimes nature presents something to us in such an obvious manner that we just have to work with it,” Howard explained. “It’s declared by nature, it’s like ‘Hey, this is for you.’”

This show is part of Adkins Arboretum’s ongoing exhibition series of work on natural themes by regional artists. It is on view through Sept. 15 at the Arboretum, located at 12610 Eveland Road near Tuckahoe State Park in Ridgely. Contact the Arboretum at 410-634-2847, ext. 0 or info@adkinsarboretum.org for hours.

Photo: “Gum Wrapper,” made with gumballs on dead sweet gum tree, is one of Howard and Mary McCoy’s site-specific sculptures at Adkins Arboretum

“Gum Wrapper,” made with gumballs on dead sweet gum tree, is one of Howard and Mary McCoy’s site-specific sculptures at Adkins Arboretum. Photo Submitted.

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Experience the Relationship between Nature and the Underground Railroad during Adkins Arboretum Audio Tour Launch June 1, 2013

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
May 22, 2013

The Eastern Shore’s natural landscape provided a passageway to freedom along the Underground Railroad for hundreds, possibly thousands, of slaves, including abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Designated as a “Place to Visit” on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, Adkins Arboretum reflects the conditions through which freedom seekers traveled en route to freedom. On Sat., June 1, join a special evening event celebrating the launch of “A Journey Begins: Nature’s Role in the Flight to Freedom,” a new Arboretum audio tour that explores the little-known relationship between nature and the Underground Railroad.

Developed by Arboretum staff and volunteers in concert with noted historians Anthony Cohen and Dr. Kate Clifford Larson and consultants Q Media Productions, and funded through generous grant support from Maryland Humanities Council and Maryland Heritage Area Authority, this educational and thought-provoking self-guided tour examines how nature provided both obstacles and opportunities for freedom seekers. The story of nature and the Underground Railroad also interprets the profound connection between landscapes and historic conditions and events, emphasizing the importance of preserving native landscapes throughout the Chesapeake Bay region.

The audio tour launch runs from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Join this special evening to celebrate the project’s completion, meet the project team, and experience the tour. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public; reservations are required at adkinsarboretum.org.

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Adkins Arboretum is a 400-acre native garden and preserve at the headwaters of the Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline County. Open year round, the Arboretum offers educational programs for all ages about nature and gardening. Through its Campaign to Build a Green Legacy, it will build the W. Flaccus and Ruth B. Stifel Center at Adkins Arboretum and a “green” entranceway to broaden educational offerings and research initiatives promoting best practices in conservation and land stewardship. For additional information about Arboretum programs, visit www.adkinsarboretum.org or call 410-634-2847, ext. 0.

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Adkins Arboretum Offers Soup ’n Walk Program on May 18, 2013

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
May 13, 2013

Tuckahoe Creek is a beautiful, tranquil spot that provides views of a wide variety of flowering plants. Join a walk to search for blooms along its banks when Adkins Arboretum hosts a popular Soup ’n Walk program on Sat., May 18. Following a guided walk, enjoy a delicious and nutritious lunch along with a brief lesson about the meal’s nutritional value. Copies of recipes are provided.

Participants may choose a one-hour or two-hour walk to catch glimpses of mountain laurel, beech and tulip trees, black cherry tree blossoms, pink lady’s slipper orchid and Solomon’s seal blooms, and May apple fruit. The menu includes vegetarian chili, roasted red beets over mesclun salad, apple date wheat bread with apple jelly, and blueberry marmalade crisp. The two-hour walk begins at 10 a.m.; the one-hour walk begins at 11 a.m.

The program is $20 per person for members, $25 per person for the general public. Register at adkinsarboretum.org or call 410-634-2847, ext. 0. To schedule Soup ’n Walk programs for groups of 15 or more, contact Ginna Tiernan, Adult Program Coordinator, at 410-634-2847, ext. 27 or gtiernan@adkinsarboretum.org.

Photo: Adkins Arboretum docent Julianna Pax, at left, pauses on a bridge in the Arboretum forest so participants can search for spring blooms during a Soup ’n Walk program. This Saturday’s Soup ’n Walk will focus on Tuckahoe Creek.

Adkins Arboretum docent Julianna Pax, at left, pauses on a bridge in the Arboretum forest so participants can search for spring blooms during a Soup ’n Walk program. This Saturday’s Soup ’n Walk will focus on Tuckahoe Creek. Submitted Photo.

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Adkins Arboretum – May 2013 Calendar of Events

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ADKINS ARBORETUM
May 2013

First Saturday Guided Walk
Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m.
Free for members, free with admission for the general public
Explore the rich and unique native plant habitat of Adkins Arboretum. The plant habitats you’ll see include mature and young native forests, meadows, a wetland, as well as a rain garden and a pollinator garden. You may also visit the Arboretum’s Native Plant Nursery and the children’s teaching garden. Tours begin at the Visitor’s Center and last approximately one hour. 410-634-2847, ext. 0 for more information.

Bird Migration Walk
Saturday May 4, 8–10 a.m.
Free with admission
Join Wayne Bell on a guided walk to scout for migrants warblers that regularly pass through the Arboretum in early May. Warblers of note include include Black-and-white, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, American Redstart, Yellow-rumped (Myrtle), Magnolia, and (rarer) Blackburnian. Rose-breasted Grosbeak should also be passing through, and resident Indigo Bunting and Blue Grosbeak may be present. Scarlet Tanager, which nests in the mature woods, should also be in good voice. Many of these birds are colorful and full of song.

Dr. Bell is Senior Associate and former Director of the Center for Environment and Society at Washington College. Prior to joining the Washington College faculty in fall 2000, he was Vice President for External Relations for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), a global research facility headquartered at Horn Point near Cambridge, MD. He has served as president of the Arboretum Board of Trustees and is past president of the Maryland Ornithological Society.

Paradise Under Glass
Saturday, May 4, 1–2:30 p.m.
Fee: $15 members, $20 general public
Like many baby boomers in middle age, Ruth Kassinger was at an emotional crossroads. Confronted with numerous challenges, she was searching for a way forward. One cold, gray evening, flooded with thoughts of change and loss, she wandered into the U.S. Botanic Garden’s conservatory—and a dream was born. Dazzled by the vast and dense tangle of greenery, she began a quest to create a verdant sanctuary of her own at her home in suburban Washington, DC.

Paradise Under Glass chronicles her journey from brown thumb to green. Kassinger takes us step-by-step from the construction of her conservatory through her efforts to identify the easiest to grow, most beautiful houseplants. In chronicling journey to create her own tropical refuge, she also provides a lively narrative tour of the glasshouses of the past, including Renaissance orangeries, the whimsical follies of Georgian England, the legendary Crystal Palace, and secluded Victorian ferneries.

Throughout, she shares the knowledge and insights that creating and sustaining her garden has bestowed, lessons of loss and letting go, nurturing and rebirth, challenge and change, love and serenity. Paradise Under Glass is the remarkable story of the fruition of a dream that is sure to inspire us all.

Twelfth Night: Shakespeare in the Meadow
Saturday, May 4 at 6 p.m.
Sunday, May 5 at 3 p.m.
Fee: $15 adults, $10 students
Mark the date—Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is coming to the Meadow! Bring a picnic, relax under the stars, and enjoy this classic comedy about love and mistaken identity. Directed by Peter Howell, the performances benefit the Arboretum and Shore Shakespeare.

For more information, visit shoreshakespeare.com. Those who support bringing Shakespeare to the Eastern Shore are invited to make tax-deductible donations to Adkins Arboretum and designated for the benefit of Shore Shakespeare.

Kokedama
Tuesday, May 7, 10 a.m.–noon
Fee: $30 members, $35 general public
Kokedama is the Japanese art form of enclosing a plant’s root mass in moss. Traditionally, Kokedama is displayed on a unique, often handcrafted tray but more recently these ‘moss balls’ are hung from translucent string to appear to float in the air. Join Samantha McCall to create your own Kokedama to bring home and enjoy.

An avid gardener and a dedicated plantswoman, Samantha is a floral designer, a Master Gardener, and a perennial student at Longwood Gardens. A member of several Eastern Shore garden clubs, she also is the owner of Fleurish, an environmentally friendly floral design studio committed to using local plant material whenever possible.

Botanical Shoes
Thursday, May 9, 1–2 p.m.
Fee: $15 members, $20 general public

In 1987, Lenny Wilson learned to make shoes at Cordwainer’s Technical College, a leather trades college in London. Shortly afterward, he began a career in public horticulture and was inspired to create a pair of shoes that incorporated parts of plants into their construction. Using traditional methods and materials, he unifies leather, leaves, and other materials to craft unique life-size shoes.

Join Lenny for a unique presentation as he shares his journey, illustrates what inspires him, demonstrates how he selects plants and employs tools, and relates exhibition and workshop experiences.

A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Lenny holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Delaware. Currently he is the Assistant Director of Horticulture and Facilities at Delaware Center for Horticulture, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Delaware’s diverse communities through horticulture. His one-of-a-kind shoes made from plant material are displayed in local art galleries and exhibits.

National Public Gardens Day
Friday, May 10, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Celebrate public gardens and their special place in the community! Admission is free—enjoy a walk in the woods, meadows, and gardens.

A Celebration of Natives, Adkins Arboretum’s first native garden tour, will feature seven gardens in Caroline County. The tour not only will highlight the beauty of these gardens but will emphasize the importance of their role in a bio-diverse landscape. Each garden is unique and demonstrates its own flair and commitment in its use of natives.

The Native Garden Tour is Saturday, May 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $15 per person in advance and $25 on the day of the tour. Visit www.adkinsgardentour.org or call 410.634.2847, ext. 0 to reserve tickets.

Maryland Native Plant Society Movie Night
Tuesday, May 14, 7–8:30 p.m. An early-bird guided walk will be offered at 6:15 p.m.
Free
Maryland Native Plant Society will screen the video Urban & Suburban Meadows: Bringing Meadowscaping to Big and Small Spaces by author and photographer Catherine Zimmerman. The video brings into focus the amazing diversity of life inhabiting meadows, and the beautiful imagery inspires meadow creation. The 60-minute video features meadow experts Michael Nadeau, Larry Weaner and Neil Diboll, who walk the viewer through meadow site preparation, design, planting, and maintenance. Entomologist Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, explains the intricate connection between native plants, native insects, and the soil food web.

The video was created as a companion to the popular book of the same name. It addresses the problems caused by the extensive planting of pesticide-ridden, non-native grass lawns across America. Discussion of the video will follow. Refreshments will be served. Registration is requested.

ART EXHIBITS
One Hundred Footsteps is a unique collaboration between writer Jennifer Wallace and visual artist Katherine Kavanaugh, both of Baltimore. In this limited edition work, fifty of Wallace’s haiku-like poems are paired with fifty small collage drawings by Kavanaugh. Although the poems and images aren’t meant to illustrate one another, they share parallel contemplative moods. On view through May 31, this meditative exhibit was inspired by a medieval Japanese collaborative poetic form, the renga, often composed of 100 verses.

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Spring Soup ’n Walks
Nature, Nurture, and Nutrition
Saturday, May 18 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Fee: $20 members, $25 general public
Registration required. Limit: 25
Track the changing landscape from winter to spring. Following a guided walk with a docent naturalist, enjoy a delicious and nutritious lunch along with a brief lesson about the meal’s nutritional value. Copies of recipes are provided.

May Theme: Tuckahoe Creek and Beyond
Tuckahoe Creek is a beautiful, tranquil spot that provides views of a wide variety of flowering plants. Join a one- or two-hour walk to search for mountain laurel, beech and tulip trees, black cherry tree blossoms, pink ladyslipper and Solomon’s seal blooms, and Mayapple fruit.

Menu
Thick and Hearty vegetable chili (vegetarian)
Roasted red beets over mesclun salad
Apple date wheat bread with apple jelly
Blueberry marmalade crisp

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Celebrate National Public Gardens Day with Free Admission to Adkins Arboretum

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
May 1, 2013)

Adkins Arboretum will celebrate the American Public Gardens Association’s (APGA) fifth annual National Public Gardens Day by waiving admission fees on Fri., May 10.

Slated to coincide with Mother’s Day weekend, the unofficial start of spring, National Public Gardens Day affords public gardens an opportunity to showcase their gardens and highlight the valuable contributions they make to their communities.

On National Public Gardens Day, Arboretum visitors can shop from the region’s largest selection of ornamental native plants at the Native Plant Nursery; view an exhibition by artists Katherine Kavanaugh and Jennifer Wallace; take a self-guided tour or an audio tour; explore the forest, wetland, meadows and gardens; and learn about the link between native plants, land conservation and a healthy Chesapeake Bay. Visitors who become members will receive a free one-year subscription to Better Homes and Gardens magazine, in addition to a host of other benefits.

Arboretum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Nursery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and weekends by appointment.

Founded in 1940, Delaware-based APGA is devoted to strengthening public gardens throughout North America. Its membership includes more than 500 public gardens in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and seven other countries.

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Adkins Arboretum offers Botanical Shoes Program on May 9, 2013

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Adkins Arboretum
RIDGELY, MD
April 24, 2013

In 1987, Lenny Wilson learned to make shoes at Cordwainer’s Technical College, a leather trades college in London. Shortly afterward, he began a career in public horticulture and was inspired to create shoes that incorporate parts of plants into their construction. Using traditional methods and materials, he unifies leather, leaves and other materials to craft unique life-size shoes.

Join Wilson at Adkins Arboretum on Thursday, May 9th for Botanical Shoes, a unique presentation during which he will share his journey, illustrate what inspires him, demonstrate how he selects plants, and relates exhibition and workshop experiences.

A native of Wilmington, Del., Wilson is the Assistant Director of Horticulture and Facilities at Delaware Center for Horticulture, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Delaware’s diverse communities through horticulture. His one-of-a-kind shoes made from plant material are displayed in local art galleries and exhibits.

Botanical Shoes runs from 1 to 2 p.m. The program fee is $15 for members, $20 for the general public. Register at adkinsarboretum.org or call 410.634.2847, ext. 0.

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