1:00 to 3:00 PM, SUNDAY, July 13, 2008
With Horticulturist Tolly Beck
2610 Amawalk Road, Route 35
Katonah, NY 10536
Free Admission
Bring Horticultural Displays for Judging by
12:45 PM
Lasdon Park and Arboretum is a magnificent 234-acre property
consisting of woodlands, open grass meadows and formal gardens that
offer a picturesque area to view various tree, shrub and flower
specimens from all over the world.
We will concentrate the visit around the one-acre William and Mildred
Lasdon Memorial Garden. In the garden are three areas: an entrance court
with a fragrance garden, a formal garden and a synoptic garden. The
formal garden includes boxwood hedge panels, heather, and seasonal
displays of annuals and bulbs around the central fountain. Overlooking
the garden is a shaded seating area, situated for viewing the plantings.
A synoptic garden surrounds the formal garden with hundreds of shrubs,
arranged alphabetically by genus. This garden is used to display shrubs
that can be used in residential gardens.
Tolly Beck is the Horticulturist at Lasdon Park and Arboretum. She
also is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and a faculty
member of New York Botanical Garden’s School of Professional
Horticulture. Formerly, Tolly was a Horticulture Educator at Cornell
Cooperative Extension in Rockland County.
DIRECTIONS TO LASDON
From I-684: Exit 6, Route 35. Proceed west. The park entrance
is three miles ahead on LEFT.
From the Taconic State Parkway: Exit at Route 202. Proceed
east. Turn LEFT onto Route 35. The park is three miles ahead on the
RIGHT.
Bear LEFT and go up the hill to the parking lot.
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