On April 1, Larry Weaner, designer of the meadow on the Lumberton campus, presented The Annual Lewis W. Barton Arboretum Lecture “Native Wildflower Meadows: Let’s Get Real”. The Lois Forrest Nature Center Library has his most recent publication, Garden Revolution: How our Landscapes can be a Source of Environmental Change. Whether or not you attended the lecture, you may enjoy reading this new book.
In the lecture, Larry also mentioned the process of ‘plant communities’, that is, incorporating plantings that thrive with one another in a particular soil type and climate. This book entitled, Plant Communities of New Jersey: A Study in Landscape Diversity describes 12 types of plant habitats in New Jersey, and is also available in the Lois Forrest Nature Center Library.
