1:00 to 3:00 PM, SUNDAY, July 13, 2008

Lasdon Park and Arboretum

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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The Westchester and Fairfield Horticultural Society, Inc.

An Educational and Community Service Organization 
 Founded 1910

P.O. Box 18, Cos Cob, CT 06807

President:  Kate Liba
 

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