Jenny is the Director of Meadowbrook Farm, a 25 acre estate offering year-round access to “outstanding garden plants, flowering baskets, trees and shrubs, and one-of-a-kind specimen plants.”
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>> My name is Jenny Rose Carey. I'm director of the Meadowbrook Farm which is a public garden in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania and it is owned by the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society and it has about 20 acres of gardens and grounds. So some are formal gardens because it was an estate garden, so rectilinear crossing angles and bedded out annuals are very, very pretty and on the banks of the hills so you look down to the valley below and next to a house that belonged to the Pennocks. And the Pennocks were a charitable and they gave it to the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society. We do have some weddings but quite a lot of educational events. So workshops and we will be doing more and we host things for the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society members. So every Monday for example, we've been doing a free, you can drop in and 11:00 and have some little workshop going on that you can come and join in by being a member. The spring is in this climate the main planting season, but actually fall right now in the, in October is a wonderful time to plant because the ground is still warm and actually the air is still warm and things can begin to get their roots. But with weather you just have to really, you know we've had some times of drought, you've had you know deluges and you just have to really work with it, go with the flow and be, you have to be flexible, you have to have patience, because you might plant your seeds and then they get washed out by a rainstorm, you have to start all over again. So it, you know, I swear that gardening teaches you many lifelong lessons.
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