RIDGELY, MD — Prepare for fall in the garden! Adkins Arboretum, offering the Chesapeake gardener the best selection of landscape-ready native plants for more than 20 years, announces its Fall Native Plant Sale. All proceeds benefit the Arboretum’s rich variety of education programs, scheduled to resume in 2021, that teach about the Delmarva’s native plants […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – On Sunday, May 17, 2020 Adkins Arboretum will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its official opening with free admission and cake all day! The public is invited to visit and join in the celebration. Spring is a particularly beautiful time at the Arboretum: frogs call from the wetland, and wildflowers bloom along […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – Viewers will find both beauty and food for thought in Discovering the Native Landscapes of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Adkins Arboretum’s 21st annual Juried Art Show. On view in the Arboretum Visitor’s Center through March 27, 2020 the exhibit was juried by Heather Harvey, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art and Art […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – Adkins Arboretum recently upgraded and increased the accessibility of its Living Collections Database. The upgrade was made possible with a $25,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), awarded through its most competitive grant program, Museums for America, in the category of collections stewardship. Adkins Arboretum is considered a […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – There’s a story behind each of Easton artist Jeremy Joseph’s paintings, on view in the Adkins Arboretum Visitor’s Center through January. Why would a pair of bright-eyed birds be carrying potted plants on their backs, and what’s behind chickadees playing mixed doubles on the tennis court? In his show Winter Birds Dream […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – Enjoy fall in the garden! Adkins Arboretum will hold its annual Fall Open House and Native Plant Sale Friday through Sunday, September 6–8, 2019 at the Arboretum in Ridgely, Md. The sale will be held at the Visitor’s Center. Fall is the best season for planting, and the Arboretum offers the Chesapeake […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – There’s something dazzling about the pure, carefree joy of Alison Cooley’s mixed media paintings in her exhibit, Tidal, on view at Adkins Arboretum’s Visitor’s Center through September 27, 2019. Although abstract, their watery pools of deep, luscious color and the needle-thin lines that scribble and loop across their surfaces conjure seaweed swirling […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD — Twirled around trees or swirling up from the forest floor, vines are the only materials environmental artists Howard and Mary McCoy used to create sculptures for Wild Lines, their outdoor show on view through September 30, 2019 at Adkins Arboretum. On Saturday, June 22, 2019 as part of a reception from 3 […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – Plants are Wilmington artist Susan Benarcik’s first love. From childhood, she was captivated by the old-fashioned flowers her grandfather grew in his greenhouses, and now they fill her collages and encaustic paintings. In her show Evidence of Meaning, on view in Adkins Arboretum’s Visitor’s Center through May 31, her artworks offer compelling […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD, – Adkins Arboretum recently completed several projects at its nursery growing facilities with support from the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust (SSHT). The improvements will have a direct and lasting impact on the Arboretum’s Native Plant Propagation Initiative, an ongoing effort to broaden the selection of native plant species available to the horticultural trade. […]
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