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MEMBER EVENT
Nursery Field Day at
Longwood Gardens Sells Out!
he long-awaited nursery field
day, hosted by Longwood
TGardens, first scheduled for
summer 2020, then moved to summer
2021, convened on September 7, 2022.
And according to those in attendance,
it was worth the wait. Speaking of
attendance, unfortunately we had
to cap the number of attendees and
create a waitlist to keep the tours and
educational stations manageable. We
are used to having waitlists for MANTS
but not for a field day.
The day began with a presentation
of the history of Longwood Gardens
which was hundreds of years in the
making, becoming official in 1906
thanks to Pierre S. du Pont. If you wish
to learn more about the history, there
is longwoodgardens.org/history, but
the best source, like so many things in
life, is visiting in-person.
The remainder of the day was spent
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