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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.

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“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
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"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.

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March  


April   22  -  Earth Day
              24  -  Arbor Day
              25  -  
Native Plant Sale - Borough Parking Lot, 9 a.m. til sold out 


May  10 - Mothers' Day
        16 - Second Chance Plant Sale - Swarthmore Farmers Market
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June   21    - Fathers' Day

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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





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"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece."
​  -- Claude Monet

September 


October 24 - Bulb Sale at Swarthmore Farmers Market

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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

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