Jerry’s Calendar
Horticultural Chat Room
Saturday February 24th    
10:00 am at Linden Hill Gardens
Join Jerry around the woodstove in the new potting shed to discuss the new and unusual plants arriving this spring.  Refreshments will be served.  Please call 610-847-1300 to register, seating is limited.

Philadelphia Flower Show
March 4-11, 2007
‘Legends of Ireland’
Jerry is scheduled to lecture Sunday the 11th at 2:00pm on ‘Exciting Plant Combinations’
What better way to welcome spring then to see the greens of Ireland. For more information www.theflowershow.com

Bucks Beautiful
March 16-18, 2007
Delaware Valley College, Doylestown
Jerry Fritz Garden Design is going to have a mini display garden at this year’s garden fair.  To anyone who hasn’t been, this is an excellent start for your spring garden ideas.  The display gardens offer a small glance at the possibilities for your own garden.  For more information go to www.bucksbeautiful.com 

Noteworthy
Maine Granite
Hundreds of millions of years ago the collision of the earths plates created molten magma that cooled with the earths crust to form granite.  Erosion exposed the granite and the undertaking of quarrying started.  In the early 1800’s the state of Maine started its quarrying of this stone; all done by hand.  This early granite has a distinctive appearance.  Finding this antique stone was Jerry’s quest and recently was happy to find a supplier in Maine.  After a long drive to Maine the fun began when he was able to choose the pieces of granite that ‘spoke’ to him.  A few weeks later when the stone arrived at JFGD it felt almost like Christmas; seeing them unloaded from the truck.  This wonderful granite will find new homes in Pennsylvania for the next hundred years and more.

Stone Foundation
Jerry’s favorite Christmas present was from his wife Amy, a membership to ‘The Stone Foundation’.  This is a society of stonemasons and others involved with and or interested in stone, stonework and stone art.  Stone has always been an interest of Jerry’s and he is looking forward to increasing his knowledge in the near future.

If you would like more information about group tours of Linden Hill Gardens or if you are interested in a speaker for your organization, call our office at 610.847.1300 or email us at jfritz@epix.net.

Memberships

Co-Chair of Perennial Plant Association – Philadelphia National Convention 2008

Association of Professional Landscape Designers

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Royal Horticultural Society

Perennial Plant Association

The Hardy Plant Society

Pacific Northwest Foundation

North American Rock Garden Society

The Garden Conservancy

Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve

Bedminster Land Conservancy


Community Projects

Jerry recently donated the Durham Township garden beds outside of the Post Office

Advisory Committee: Upper Bucks Vo-Tech School/Horticulture

Committee member : Garden Secrets Event benefiting St. Mary Medical Center Healing Gardens, Langhorne PA

Bucks Beautiful Garden Fair – Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, PA

Butterfly garden donation to Durham Nockamixon Elementary School, Kintnersville, PA

Awards

The John and Carol McCaughan Award of Distinction

The Laurel Award

The Robert and Joyce Byers Award of Excellence  


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