On Friday, August 2, Lesley Parness will stop by the Main Library to discuss how New Jersey, tops for tomatoes, was also once the pinnacle for peaches, orchids, and turf. A horticultural expert who spent much of her career working at museums and botanic gardens around the world, Parness will also share details about the 19th-century New Jersey plant nurseries that led the nation with their innovative breeding, greenhouse, field, and marketing techniques. Additionally, information on the horticultural superstars who called our state home will be provided.
Parness is a retired superintendent of horticultural education at New Jersey's Morris County Park Commission where she oversaw programming and interpretation at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Willowwood Arboretum, and Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center. She is also the author of the bi-monthly ‘The Garden Historian’ column featured in Gardener News Magazine as well as a member of the Herb Society of America, the Council on Horticultural and Botanical Libraries, and Garden State Gardens, a consortium of New Jersey's public gardens of which she is a founding member and past president.
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