The Short Hills Home Garden Club invites the public to join them in the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum at 324 Forest Drive, Short Hills, on Monday, April 2 at 10:30 a.m., for a program all about birds and butterflies in the natural garden.
Garden writer and horticulturist Lorrain Kiefer of Triple Oaks Nursery in Franklinville will be the guest speaker.
She’ll discuss how to use herbs, native plants and favorite garden flowers to attract butterflies and birds in the garden.
The program will feature plants as well as information on the life cycle of butterflies and moths and the plants that attract them. There will also be handouts and door prizes.
As a lifelong resident of Franklinville and a garden writer for many local papers and garden magazines, Kiefer has also co-authored a book, “Best Garden Plants for New Jersey,” and has written many selections on herbs in the Herb Society of America’s “Essential Guide to Growing and Cooking with Herbs.” As founder and chairwoman of the South Jersey unit of the Herb Society of America, she served on the Horticulture Committee of the National Herb Garden in Washington, D.C., and has written a chapter in the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens book on fragrant plants. She teaches classes at Triple Oaks Nursery and Herb Garden in Franklinville.
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