From 1:00 until 3:00 pm.

WynEden, the garden of Wayne and Doris Guymon

10 LaFayette Place, Chadds Ford, PA 

610-459-0477

WynEden consists of three distinct areas. The southern hillside below the house is covered with large rivers of separate varieties of ten thousand hostas, flanked on each side by large shade gardens containing hardy  woodland orchids, and other shade dainties. The sunny middle third of the garden contains ponds overseen by willows, swamp cypress, the obligatory weeping cherry tree, plus hundreds of water lilies and lotus. A smaller, second pond, backed by a 200 feet long wall of mature bamboo, features a Japanese style zigzag bridge and stone lanterns.  Sunny perennial beds are located between the two ponds filled now with thousands of daffodils ccompanied by other hardy bulbs. The final third of the property, the northern hillside, is a highly edited woodland we think of as the white-flower hill–thousands of blooming blood root, followed by blooms of the native Dogwoods a bit later this spring.

From 1:00 until 7:00 pm

Jim McClements Garden

50 S. Preswick Ct., Dover, DE 

302-734-2836

The McClements garden surrounds the house on an acre of   woodland. It started about 20 years ago as mostly native plants and has evolved into a collection of both natives and exotics, the latter mainly Asian. The newer portion of the garden is largely build on “peat/sand sandwich” beds and contains most of the Asian plants, including Paris, Podophyllums, Arisaemas, and other recent imports. Trilliums are a major interest, and most  species and their many unusual forms are represented. As the  season progresses, a large fern collection and a few hostas fill  in the spaces.

            Potluck picnic at Jim’s place: 

            5:00 pm. libations and food set up; Picnic meal shortly thereafter.

Picnic guests are requested to bring a salad, vegetable, entrée or dessert to serve 6 people. The chapter will   supply beverages, a ham, and paper goods. Please bring lawn chairs to assure we have seats for everyone.