Education: Lectures & Garden Tours

Art in the Garden Tour and Reception Art in the Garden Tour and Reception
Wednesday, May 7, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Clark Garden in front of Townsend Hall
Members and Nonmembers: Free UDBG Reception for UD sculpture students' display of art works. Each year sculpture students from the Department of Fine Arts and Visual Communications install art in the UD Botanic Gardens. Join us for this reception as we tour the garden and students discuss their sculptures. Sculptures will remain on display during May. Many of these pieces are for sale, so you might find a sculpture to enhance your own garden. 

In addition to the large artworks produced for class assignments, sculpture students plant to make additional art for the garden installations to sell at the reception. Proceeds fun Art in the Garden awards for outstanding work. <Back to top>

UDBG Friends Spring Annual Meeting, Lecture, and Plant Dividend Distribution UDBG Friends Spring Annual Meeting, Lecture,
and Plant Dividend Distribution
"Twenty-five Plants I Couldn't Garden Without (In My Zone 7 Garden)"
By Dan Benarcik, garden artist, Chanticleer
Wednesday, May 14
7 pm Business Meeting, ~7:30 pm LectureLocation: Rm 132 Townsend Hall
Members: Free; Nonmembers: $10.00


For those who have been to Chanticleer Gardens in Wayne, Pennsylvania, you have seen the extraordinary plant combination artistry of Dan Benarcik. In this illustrated talk, Dan will share with us 25 plants that he would never want to garden without in his Zone 7 landscape (Wilmington and Newark are Zone 7). Ranging from trees and shrubs to herbaceous perennials, his list also includes a few tropicals and tender perennials to spice up the mix.
A native Delawarean, Dan Benarcik was raised in a family-run florist business. A graduate of the Plant & Soil Sciences Department at the University of Delaware, Dan has been involved in retail and nonprofit horticulture for over 20 years. He is a horticulturist and garden artist at Chanticleer Gardens, one of the premier horticultural institutions in the U.S. Dan writes for numerous gardening magazines, designs garden furniture, and is a frequent lecturer throughout the country.   <Back to top>