2026 Calendar
❁ In addition to the events listed below, be sure to check out the events at the Scott Arboretum. Click HERE for a quick link.
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape - the loneliness of it - the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it - the whole story doesn’t show.”
– Andrew Wyeth
January 17 - Free the Trees, 10am - 12pm, CADES Swarthmore Town Woods
"Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so."
- Stanley Crawford
February 2 - "Native Plants and Pollinators of Pennsylvania" lecture by Samantha
Nestory of Stoneleigh, 7:30 p.m., The Old Mill in Rose Valley, Presented
by Rose Valley Gardeners, $10 members, $15 non-members
10 - Environmental Book Discussion, 7 p.m. at Celia Bookshop
"Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants" by Doug
Tallamy. Click here to RSVP and for information about events at Celia Bookshop.
March
– Andrew Wyeth
January 17 - Free the Trees, 10am - 12pm, CADES Swarthmore Town Woods
"Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so."
- Stanley Crawford
February 2 - "Native Plants and Pollinators of Pennsylvania" lecture by Samantha
Nestory of Stoneleigh, 7:30 p.m., The Old Mill in Rose Valley, Presented
by Rose Valley Gardeners, $10 members, $15 non-members
10 - Environmental Book Discussion, 7 p.m. at Celia Bookshop
"Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants" by Doug
Tallamy. Click here to RSVP and for information about events at Celia Bookshop.
March
June 21 - Fathers' Day
July "Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
-- Henry James
August "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
-- Audrey Hepburn
"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece."
-- Claude Monet
September
October 24 - Bulb Sale at Swarthmore Farmers Market
-- Claude Monet
September
October 24 - Bulb Sale at Swarthmore Farmers Market
November - Fall Changeover Days
"There ought to be Gardens for all Months in the year, in which, severally, things of Beauty may be then in season."
- Sir Francis Bacon
December