Linwood County: Atlantic Population: 7,092 Setting (Urban, Suburban, Rural): Suburban

Sustainable Jersey Small Grants Application Background Information Form & Checklist Please include page A and B of this form at the beginning of your application.

Municipality Background Information

Municipality: City of Linwood County: Atlantic Population: 7,092 Setting (urban, suburban, rural): Suburban

Is your town currently registered with Sustainable Jersey? (Note: All applicants must be Yes X registered with the program by date of submission. For more information on how to register, visit: http://www.sustainablejersey.com/actions-certification/getting-started/ No Does your municipality have an active Green Team? (Note: All applicant communities must have Yes X an active Green Team. To view the requirements of an active Green Team please click here, or see the Application Checklist below) No

Is your municipality currently Sustainable Jersey Certified? If yes, at what level? Bronze Has your municipality ever been certified in the past? If yes, when and at what level?

Did your municipality receive a Sustainable Jersey small grant in previous years? If yes, which year(s) and at what level(s)? No

Grant Application Information

For what grant level are you applying? $10,000 Are you applying for two grants? Yes (Another Background Information Form and Application must be completed separately for each grant. See Section B in application for eligibility) No X

Project Title Linwood Arboretum Expansion

Please provide a brief (2-3 sentences) description of your project.

The Arboretum will be expanded to an adjacent parcel of land directly along the Linwood Bike Path. The proposal is to install a “dry-garden” and “scree garden” in this area to highlight drought tolerant plants that could be useful in a residential landscape.

Sustainable Jersey Action(s) that will be completed through grant. All $10,000 and $20,000 grants projects must relate to the completion of a Sustainable Jersey Action. Please be sure to check the “What to do” and the “What to submit” section of each action to verify the project can fulfill the action requirements. Actions that would be “innovative demonstrations projects” are also eligible and will be judged based on their ability to model or improve the current slate of Sustainable Jersey Actions. All requirements for actions can be viewed here. $2,000 Capacity-Building grants do not have to complete an action if only seeking general support funds. 1. Community or School Garden 4. Other Innovative Project 2. Community Education 5. 3. Water Conservation Education 6.

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Sustainable Jersey® Small Grants Application Contacts

Primary Municipal Contact NOTE: The grant application decision and follow-up will be directed to this contact.

Name Leigh Ann Napoli Title Municipal Clerk Affiliation City of Linwood Address 400 Poplar Avenue Linwood, NJ 08221

Phone (609) 927-4108 Email [email protected]

Please list any additional municipal or Green Team contacts for the grant. Include key elected officials and any staff contacts. Name Title Phone Email Richard L. DePamphilis, III Mayor (609) 927-4108 [email protected] Ralph Paolone Councilman (609) 927-4108 [email protected] Dr. Allen Lacy Curator, Linwood Arboretum (609) 927-8569 [email protected] George Butrus Chairman, Shade Tree Commission (609) 927-4108 [email protected] Stephen Mazur City Engineer (609) 652-7131 [email protected]

Fiscal Contact name and mailing address where grant Media Contact A municipal employee or affiliate that check will be sent.* we contact for coordinating press/media events Name: Anthony Strazzeri Title: CFO Name: Leigh Ann Napoli Phone: (609) 927-4108 Title: Municipal Clerk Email: [email protected] Phone: (609) 927-4108 Email: [email protected] Mailing 400 Poplar Avenue

Address: Linwood, NJ 08221

Mayor’s Information (The mayor may be Additional Contact for Mayor (Secretary, directly invited to a press conference or other assistant, aide etc.) speaking engagement) Name: Name: Richard L. DePamphilis, III Title: Phone: (609) 927-4108 Phone: Email: [email protected] Email:

*Only New Jersey municipalities are eligible grant applicants. Funding may be passed through to a non-profit, partner organization, or contractor, but the municipality must be the applicant and will be responsible for the reporting requirements. Checks will be made payable to the municipalities and sent to their fiscal agent.

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Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Funded by the PSE&G Foundation

2013 Application

Linwood Arboretum Expansion The City of Linwood

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proposal seeks to expand the Linwood Arboretum into an adjacent half-acre, municipally-owned site, establishing there a Dry Garden and Scree Garden landscape of highly drought-tolerant ornamental plants, designed in such a way as to make minimal demands for irrigation and regular, weekly maintenance.

The site, irrigated solely by rainfall, is “made land,” created in 2009 when a large section of asphalt paving was removed as part of a traffic-calming exercise. It was then seeded with utility grade turf grass as a cover crop. This change has already yielded an environmental benefit by reducing surface run-off to a nearby tidal creek. The creation of the Dry Garden complex would further improve run- off issues by the grading and installation of wide pedestrian pathways of packed gravel and soil by preparation for planting.

Phase One of Linwood Arboretum and its surrounding neighboring residential area represents the typical suburban style of landscaping with its lawns, foundation plantings and shade trees. At first glance suburbia may seem natural-- and a dry landscape alien. However, Coastal Southern New Jersey and its immediate inland areas in which Linwood is situated are characterized by sandy soil low in organic matter, inescapable periods of drought, and a native flora of water-thrifty genera. The Linwood Arboretum Dry Garden would help pave the way to a landscaping philosophy that is not only sustainable but also reflective of the true surrounding natural environment. It is possible to garden without polluting the air with the noise and fumes of lawnmowers and leaf blowers. The Linwood Arboretum will publicize these basic concepts through such means as interpretive explanatory signage, docent-led tours, and easy public access throughout the community. The location of a municipal-wide bike and walking path through the Arboretum encourages public access.

Mulch will be an essential element of the Dry Garden expansion of the Arboretum, just as it was in its original phase. The difference lies in the nature of mulches used. Instead of the constantly renewable decomposing vegetative matter (pine needles, shredded bark, hardwood nuggets) of Phase One, mulches in the Dry Garden will be of non-degradable mineral origin—stones, gravel, sand. As such, these are permanent; once installed, they may require occasional topping off, but not in regular replacement, with its concomitant expenditures of both money and labor. Furthermore, mounds mulched with mineral materials are much less hospitable to adventitious weeds.

Another feature of the Dry Garden will be an Herb Garden in which a variety of culinary, medicinal, and aromatic herbs will be grown. Herbs are traditionally highly tolerant of dry conditions. Additionally, a limited number of drought-tolerant flowering herbaceous perennials will be grown in several small mounded beds alongside the gravel pathways. These will provide floral displays in summer that both please the human eye and attract pollinators such as hummingbirds, dragonflies, bees, and butterflies. The central pathways will be a major landscaping feature of the Dry Garden Complex.

The materials used for the walkways and mounded beds will differ in both texture and color from the main paths of the Arboretum. Closely packed fine gravel will be used in intersecting pathways alongside a system of low berms or mounded planting beds, with plantings of small shrubs, clump- forming perennials, and succulents. Signage is a necessity in an arboretum and will provide botanically correct identification. Berms, it should be noted, are already used in Phase One, where they have been very successful in enabling some fairly tender plants to survive the rigor of winter by providing superior drainage. A main pathway will have some seating, including half logs similar to those used in the original Arboretum, which will be donated by a local arborist. (At the southern end

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation of the central path, it is envisioned that a simple lean-to approximately 12’x18’ would eventually be constructed with shaded benches. This would also provide future shade for some plants that that prefer dry shade, including the Arboretum’s existing collection of the Linwood azaleas that tie the Arboretum to local horticultural history. Information about this group of plants is available online at http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dhyatt/ASA/azalean/linwood0180.html “The Linwood Hardy Azaleas.” We plan to secure financing for the lean-to through other sources.)

The Linwood Arboretum exists for the pleasure of the local population, including the public education community. Middle school science classes have made considerable use of the facility as a laboratory, including sessions in which the curator of the arboretum has presented lessons on botanical and horticultural topics to science classes. Art classes sometimes meet for drawing and painting sessions, and Spanish classes have taken place on the lawn on balmy spring days. The addition of the Dry Garden will facilitate the study of a different and distinct landscape environment with a message of sustainability that is demonstrable to Linwood families, gardeners, and school children.

The Arboretum, as described above, is a brownfields site, formerly an electrical substation It should be noted that the first name on the Arboretum’s cornerstone is that of J. C. Raulston, the founder of the arboretum at North Carolina State University now named in the his memory. The motto of this legendary twentieth century plantsman was “Plan—and plant for a better America.” His influence is everywhere manifest in our Phase One, and it now continues with our planning for this Dry Garden. It was inspired by our curator’s visit as a speaker to the Raulston Arboretum in 2011, when he photographed the JC Raulston Arboretum’s newly-installed Dry Garden. One of these photographs is included in the supplemental materials of this proposal. This photo provides some indication of the design and plantings of Linwood’s Dry Garden, except for its smaller size and absence of changes in elevation.

IMPACT: As noted municipal garden designer Lynden B. Miller has pointed out, public places provide a connection with nature for neighborhoods, rich and poor. Well-planted parks and gardens are essential urban oases that reduce crime and have positive effects on the economic welfare of cities and their citizens.

With the expansion and establishment of a Dry Garden, Linwood’s Arboretum will be a model in Water Conservation Landscaping. The project will guide both Linwood and the surrounding region to undertake more sustainable landscaping. The proposed project will implement three key Sustainable Jersey actions as noted below:

1. Community or School Gardens: The Linwood Arboretum is a regional and municipal institution, established in 2009, with initial support from Atlantic County’s Open Spaces program, supplemented by funds from the City of Linwood. It is the newest member of the Garden State Gardens Consortium, bringing to three the number of public gardens in Southern New Jersey. (There are ten members of this organization in North Jersey, eight in Central New Jersey.) The arboretum is located within easy walking distance of Linwood’s primary school and a regional high school. It is immediately adjacent to Belhaven Middle School, for which an enclosed area was set aside for curricular use, including a recent collection of Pine Barrens carnivorous plants that was installed in 2013. The proposed Dry Garden with its Scree Garden, the first of its kind in Southern New Jersey Garden, would be a living laboratory demonstrating to both Linwood’s public school students and the general

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation public the ecological principles of water conservation and the tenets of sustainable landscaping. The addition of the Dry Garden to the more traditional suburban landscaping in the Arboretum’s first phase represents a substantial reduction in irrigation needs. Such a reduction would encourage the area’s private citizens and small businesses to consider similar landscaping options. In addition, the location, adjacent to the regional middle school, would provide curricular opportunities to illumine sustainability questions.

2. Community Education: The Linwood Arboretum has established itself as an educational facility within the City of Linwood. Seminars and tours are routinely given on site, which provide the average person with a wealth of knowledge relative to landscaping and gardening practices that are suitable to the City of Linwood and the surrounding area of southern New Jersey’s coastal plain. The proposed project will enhance the Arboretum’s current exemplary role as a teaching garden for the larger community and the neighboring middle school.

3. Water Conservation Education: The proposed expansion of the Linwood Arboretum will bring into being a Dry Garden Complex featuring plants with low moisture requirements which are suited to southern New Jersey. The Dry Garden will reflect appropriate planting practices for drought-tolerant plantings and include as well an Herb Garden and a Scree Garden. The intention of this project is to provide a working landscape that can readily be emulated on properties in the City and its surrounding areas. Such landscapes require a reduced need for irrigation and thrive under inhospitable conditions and also showcase basic principles of water conservation.

4. Other Innovative Project: The Scree Garden proposed as part of the project will be the first of its kind in southern New Jersey. Scree is found naturally in many areas of the world, where rocks near the surface have shattered to create a layer of stony debris. In the garden; a sunny, well-drained scree or gravel bed gives plants a more natural environment. Alpines, low perennials, and shrubs look better in this setting than in the false environment of a small rock garden. By establishing a working example, this project will manifest a sound approach to sustainability issues in domestic and commercial landscaping, thereby contributing to a Sustainable New Jersey.

GRANT FUNDING IMPACT: The Sustainable New Jersey grant is critical to the successful realization of this project. While the City of Linwood continues to be dedicated to furthering the Linwood Arboretum at Belhaven through in-kind services such as Public Works labor, in the absence of Public Capital Dollars, the Arboretum cannot grow in size nor undertake a new project increasing its existing commitment to sustainability. Since it first received Open Space funding in December 2008, the Linwood Arboretum has emerged as a model “vest pocket arboretum.”

BUDGET: The grant funds will be spent on contractors who will install an irrigation extension, as well as grading and furnishing the gravel required for the project. The funds will also be used to purchase the plants that will then be planted by volunteers (in-kind contribution). The total project budget is $10,000. Should the project exceed that amount, it will likely be covered by funds raised through events at the arboretum, however, the project will be value engineered to ensure to the greatest extent practical that the project stays within the $10,000 budget while also maintaining a high level of standard for construction. Fees incurred by the City’s Municipal Engineer will be covered by the City’s general operating budget for Engineering.

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation TIMELINE:

• March 2014 to April 2014 Prepare design concepts • April 2014 to May 2014 Solicit contractor quotes for irrigation line, fencing, and site preparation. • May 2014 to July 2014 Plant Selection • July 2014 to September 2014 Installation of irrigation line and site preparation including construction of planting mounds and walking paths • October 2014 Install plantings • May 2015 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

PROJECT EVALUATION MEASURES: Initially at project completion, the City of Linwood will submit photographic evidence of the project’s completion. The project will be evaluated by the project principals; however, evaluation by the Atlantic County Department of Planning & Development and the Linwood Environmental Commission is also proposed. Beyond these local and regional authorities, we plan to solicit a highly credited figure in the horticultural world to do an evaluation of the project as well as delivering a public lecture on sustainability issues in public and private gardens. Among those individuals under consideration are Andrew Bunting, curator of the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, Lorraine Kiefer, owner of Triple Oaks Nursery in Franklinville, NJ; and Lynden P. Miller, author of Parks, Plants and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape. Under consideration by the Friends of the Linwood Arboretum support group is a proposal to finance a seminar bringing all of these horticultural eminences together for a public seminar. Regional Garden Club groups and Master Gardeners organizations of South Jersey counties will be invited. Copies of any written evaluations by these authorities will be submitted to Sustainable Jersey.

INSTITUTIONALIZATION: The Linwood Arboretum was established through the efforts of a dedicated team of volunteers led by the founding curator, Dr. Allen Lacy, working with the City of Linwood and the Linwood Shade Tree Commission. A Friends of the Arboretum organization has been established with formal non-profit status. The City of Linwood has led, and will continue to lead, the organization of contractors in projects involving development and expansion of the Arboretum, and the Public Works Department has worked with the Shade Tree Commission and volunteers in maintaining the Arboretum. Thus the municipality and larger community are committed to the ongoing maintenance and expansion of the Linwood Arboretum.

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation ATTACHMENT #1

DETAILED BUDGET

UNIT ITEM UNIT QUANTITY PRICE COST

Irrigation Line L.S. 1 $ 1,200.00 $ 1,200.00

Site Grading L.S. 1 $ 3,500.00 $ 3,500.00

Plants L.S. 1 $ 2,800.00 $ 2,800.00

Furnish and Install Gravel L.S. 1 $ 2,500.00 $ 2,500.00

$ 10,000.00

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation ATTACHMENT #2

PROJECT ROLES AND RESUMES

Allen Lacy, PhD - Dr. Allen Lacy, Ph.D - Arboretum co-founder and curator, will preside over the site’s design and plant selection. Dr. Lacy, professor emeritus of horticulture and philosophy at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and a doctorate in religion from Duke University His scholarly works include Miguel de Unamuno: The Rhetoric of Existence and two co-translations of Unamuno’s works for Princeton University Press. He was gardening columnist for The Wall Street Journal for five years and held the same position for The New York Times for seven. His books on gardening include Farther Afield: A Gardener’s Excursions, The Gardener’s Eye, The Garden in Autumn, Gardening with Groundcovers and Vines, and The Inviting Garden. Lacy edited the anthology The American Gardener, and also Elizabeth Lawrence’s much-acclaimed Gardening for Love: The Market Bulletins. According to Michael Pollan, writing in The New York Times, Lacy is “the dean of American garden writers.” He was a founding faculty member at Stockton College.

His wife, Hella Lacy helped select all the plants in the Linwood Arboretum's Phase One. She currently is in charge of a group of active weekly volunteers there.

George Butrus – Mr. Butrus will plan and supervise the actual planting. He is manager of Lang’s Garden Center, a leading Linwood horticultural business, as well as being chairman of the city’s Shade Tree Commission, a member of the Linwood Environmental Commission and a founding member of the Friends of the Linwood Arboretum.

Stephen M. Mazur, PE, PP, PTOE, CME - City Engineer Steve Mazur will supervise the necessary construction, as he did with the initial arboretum project. Preliminary site preparation will be his responsibility. Mr. Mazur holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Civil Engineering from Villanova University. His firm, Dixon Associates Engineering, LLC has been the City Engineer for the City of Linwood since 2003. Mr. Mazur has managed more than three and half million dollars of public works construction projects for the City of Linwood, including the original Linwood Arboretum at Belhaven in 2009. Mr. Mazur is a member of Institute of Transportation Engineers, American Society of Highway Engineers, Chi Epsilon (Civil Engineering Honor Society), Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals , and America Walks.

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IN THE GARDEN A Little Acre of Unsung Plants

Craig Terry for The New York Times Hella and Allen Lacy inspect a camellia, Lu Shan Snow.

By ANNE RAVER Published: November 14, 2012

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As Allen Lacy, a former garden columnist for The New York

Times and The Wall Street Journal who helped start the Craig Terry for The New York Times project five years ago, likes to say, “This is the smallest Korean chrysanthemum. arboretum in the world.”

Mr. Lacy, who lives down the street, hasn’t exactly scoured the world for a smaller one, but he has a point: most arboretums tend to be several hundred acres with thousands of plants.

On a chilly afternoon a few days after the storm, the camellias were still in bloom. A fat bud on a towering hibiscus promised one more enormous pink flower; the dark pods of the black cotton plants were bursting with satiny white seeds.

There wasn’t an overused forsythia or Bradford pear in sight. This little patch of ground is all about diversity: a dozen kinds of magnolias; a half-dozen witch hazels; 15 camellias; crape myrtles that will age into sinuous trunks with exfoliating bark; deciduous holly trees loaded with red and yellow berries; dwarf pines and ginkgos as big as medium-size dogs.

Those who know the garden, like Frank Rudnesky, the principal of the Belhaven Middle School across the street, have their favorites, even if they don’t know them by name. “I like that plant that blooms in the winter,” he said. “What’s it called? Yeah, witch hazel, that’s the one.” (Jelena, which opens its fragrant orange flowers in January, has a spicy scent; the Chinese species, Hamamelis mollis, which covers itself with yellow confetti-like flowers, smells more like vanilla.)

It wasn’t all that long ago, though, that “it used to be a big plot of nothing,” Mr. Rudnesky said. “But now, every science teacher goes over there to ID plants. On a nice day, especially when we get that ocean breeze, classes go out there for reflective writing and art.” Just five years ago, this was a defunct electrical substation surrounded by barbed wire and cyclone fencing. The concrete building — now painted red, with a white pergola and trumpet vine winding up its posts — was filled with insulator coils and electrical equipment.

The city had acquired the property in 2002, then spent years mulling over what to do with it.

It considered an outdoor movie theater, but neighbors objected because of noise and parking. Dog lovers wanted a dog park. By the spring of 2007, the city was leaning toward a sports field.

That’s when Mr. Lacy showed up at a public meeting.

Mr. Lacy, who is now 77, had taught philosophy for 27 years at Richard Stockton College, in Galloway, N.J., and written a dozen books on gardening, most of which are still dog- eared favorites of serious gardeners. And like many, he was inspired by J. C. Raulston, the late plantsman and horticulture professor at North Carolina State University, who started an eight-acre arboretum there on a shoestring and spent his life bringing unusual plants to gardeners.

“I was impressed by his lament that 90 percent of American home landscaping used only 40 plants,” said Mr. Lacy, who visited the fledgling arboretum in 1985, and put the man who made it on the map by writing about him. “This arboretum is entirely J. C.’s legacy, and many of the plants here are ones that he championed.”

He was skeptical about the electric company’s assurance that the land was not polluted, he told the City Council. “You do not want your children scuffing around in there,” he said at the time. “If you’ve read ‘An Enemy of the People’ or ‘Death in Venice,’ you know that cities don’t want to say they’re polluted.”

The response, as he remembers it, was basically, “ ‘What would you put there, Smartypants?’ And I said, ‘An arboretum.’ ”

A City Council member, Ralph Paolone, asked, “What’s that?”

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A version of this article appeared in print on November 15, 2012, on page D9 of the New York edition with the headline: A Little Acre Of Unsung Plants.

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Gardens to Visit: A New Jersey Gem

I'd never heard of Linwood Arboretum in New Jersey until I read Anne Raver's article about it last week in the New York Times (read it here).

Just a little southeast of Atlantic City, close to the coast (although it suffered only slight damage from Hurricane Sandy), it's one acre filled with unusual plants, many of which you've probably never seen.

photo: Linwood Arboretum It was started only about five years ago, and one of its great benefactors is Allen Lacy, the former garden columnist who lives just down the street. If Allen Lacy was involved, then it's a place you definitely want to visit. And if you don't have any of his classic books, you can still get hold of some of them on Amazon. Highly recommended. And dont' hesitate to read the NYT article.

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Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation

Linwood Arboretum Expansion as seen from the Existing Arboretum

Linwood Arboretum Expansion as see from Oak Avenue

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation An Arboretum is Born

Linwood volunteers transform completely a municipal eyesore

Formerly the site of an electrical substation, the Linwood Arboretum at Belhaven engages the energies of local citizens

Fall, 2009. Two weekends, thirty volunteers LINWOOD ARBORETUM Supported by Atlantic County Open Spaces Fund

The Linwood Arboretum originated in a local resident’s suggestion to the Linwood City Council in April, 2007. With Council’s support planning began. Construction started in June, 2009--and by Spring, 2010 Linwood was in bloom

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SCENES FROM THE J C RAULSTON ARBORETUM’S SCREE GARDEN ATTACHMENT #8

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Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation Northern New Jersey Gardens Central New Jersey Gardens (cont’d.) Richard W. DeKorte Park Duke Farms Lyndhurst, NJ • 201-460-1700 Hillsborough, NJ www.njmeadowlands.gov/environment/parks/rdp.html www.dukefarms.org • 908-722-3700 Essex County Branch Brook Park Morven Museum & Garden Newark/Belleville, NJ Princeton, NJ www.essexcountynj.org • 973-268-3500 www.morven.org • 609-924-8144 Essex County Presby Memorial Iris Gardens Rutgers Gardens Montclair, NJ New Brunswick, NJ www.presbyirisgardens.org • 973-783-5974 www.rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu • 732-932-8451 The Frelinghuysen Arboretum Willowwood Arboretum Morris Township, NJ Chester Township, NJ Garden State Gardens www.arboretumfriends.org • 973-326-7601 www.morrisparks.net • 973-326-7600 A Consortium of New Jersey’s Public Gardens Greater Newark Conservancy Come see why we are the “Garden State” www.gardenstategardens.org Newark, NJ Southern New Jersey Gardens www.citybloom.org • 973-642-4646 Barton Arboretum & Nature Preserve Greenwood Gardens of Medford Leas Short Hills, NJ Medford, NJ www.greenwoodgardens.org • 973-258-4026 www.bartonarboretum.org • 609-654-3000 Cora Hartshorn Arboretum Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum Short Hills, NJ at Georgian Court University www.hartshornarboretum.org • 973-376-3587 Lakewood, NJ Laurelwood Arboretum www.georgian.edu/arboretum/index.htm • 732-987-2373 Wayne, NJ Linwood Arboretum www.laurelwoodarboretum.org • 973-202-9579 Linwood, NJ NJ Botanical Garden / Skylands www.linwood-arboretum.org • 609-402-6066 Ringwood, NJ — Membership as of January 1, 2014 — www.njbg.org • 973-962-9534 Reeves – Reed Arboretum Summit, NJ www.reeves-reedarboretum.org • 908-273-8787 Garden State Gardens Van Vleck House & Gardens A Consortium of Montclair, NJ New Jersey’s Public Gardens www.vanvleck.org • 973-744-4752

Central New Jersey Gardens Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center Chester Township, NJ www.morrisparks.net • 973-326-7600 Promoting the “Gardens” Leonard J. Buck Garden in our Garden State Far Hills, NJ www.somersetcountyparks.org • 908-234-2677 OUR MISSION STATEMENT Colonial Park Gardens To increase the public’s awareness of and appreciation Somerset, NJ for the beauty and horticultural, educational, artistic www.somersetcountyparks.org • 732-873-2459 and historic value of New Jersey’s public gardens. Deep Cut Gardens This is to be accomplished through the collaboration Middletown, NJ of allied public garden professionals as they work to www.monmouthcountyparks.com • 732-671-6050 promote public garden visitation, development, stewardship and support. For more information, contact usat: [email protected] • www.gardenstategardens.org Arboretum Willowwood & Gardens VanHouse Vleck Rutgers Gardens Arboretum Reeves-Reed Iris Gardens Presby Memorial NJ BotanicalGarden & Garden Morven Museum Linwood Arboretum Arboretum Laurelwood Arboretum Cora Hartshorn Greenwood Gardens Conservancy Greater Newark Arboretum The Frelinghuysen Duke Farms DeKorte Park Richard W. Deep CutGardens Gardens Colonial Park Burns Arboretum Sister MaryGrace Garden Leonard J. Buck Branch Brook Park & Nature Preserve Barton Arboretum Bamboo Brook Amenities Visitor

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LINWOOD CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation

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LETTERS OF SUPPORT

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation

January 20, 2014

Stephen M. Mazur, PE, PP, PTOE, CME Linwood City Engineer Dixon Associates Engineering, LLC 335 E.. Jim Leeds Rd, 2nd Floor Galloway, New Jersey 08205

Re: Sustainable Jersey Small Grants Program

Dear Mr. Mazur:

Given my past and present enthusiastic support of the Linwood Arboretum, it should be no surprise that I now highly recommend its proposal for expanding its mission and outreach with a Dry Garden featuring scree mulch and drought-tolerant plants.

In its brief existence, the arboretum has transformed a municipal eyesore into a garden worth visiting. Its plantings are not only diverse but also an educational showcase of uncommon but worthy specimens for all seasons. Take winter, for example. People who five years ago never heard of winter-blooming jasmines, edgeworthias, and Japanese apricots are now asking for them at the local nursery that I manage. Its collection of pitcher plants and other bog species of our Pine Barrens is highly educational, particularly for school children.

The Linwood Arboretum has proven its local and regional worth beyond all question, and I have no doubt that its new Dry Garden will be an amenity for Linwood and other towns in our part of south Jersey, especially on sustainability issues.

Sincerely,

George Butrus

George Butrus, Chair - Linwood Shade Tree Commission Vice President - Friends of the Linwood Arboretum Manager, Lang’s Garden Market

Cc: Mayor Richard DePamphilis Leigh Ann Napoli, City Clerk Bill Perdie, Linwood Environmental Commission

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GRANTEE’S CERTIFICATION AND DECLARATION

Linwood Arboretum Expansion 2013 Sustainable JerseyTM Small Grants Program City of Linwood, Atlantic County Funded by the PSE&G Foundation