SUNDAY DEC 10 - Today's Festival of Trees event is on!  Tickets can be purchased at the gate. We have made every effort to move as many of the activities indoors or under a tent.  There are 22 beautiful trees decorated by local families, business, scouts and not for profits; please come support them and the Arboretum!

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A welcome visitor to the Square Foot Garden

Last year the Black Swallowtail butterfly was named the official State Butterfly of New Jersey. On September 14th as I tended the RRA Square Foot Garden, I was rewarded with the sighting of one of these beautiful butterflies fluttering about.


On close examination, I noticed that this butterfly was not on an excursion for nectar. In fact, it was depositing its tiny yellow eggs on the tops of the leaves of the carrot plants that we have growi...

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