Grounds for Sculpture Trip - outdoor sculpture in garden settings July 9, 2011

Sign up now and join the Delaware County Master Gardeners on a trip to enjoy a blend of both art and horticulture at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, on Saturday, July 9. http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/visit_us.html
The itinerary also includes a stop at Marano Gardens in Fort Washington, a small, family-owned nursery which specializes in rare and unusual plants.
The bus will depart at 8:30 a.m. from the Smedley Park Environmental Center, 20 Paper Mill Road, Springfield, and return at approximately 6 p.m.
The cost is $40 for Master Gardeners and $43 for non-members; the fee includes gardens admission, transportation, snacks and gratuity. Bring your own bag lunch or purchase lunch at the museum. Either way, enjoy eating inside or in the courtyard where you can watch the strolling peacocks.
Grounds for Sculpture combines outdoor sculpture in garden settings on a 35-acre landscape carved from the former New Jersey State fairgrounds outside Trenton, N.J. Both massive contemporary sculpture and whimsical realistic scenes blend into quiet pockets of conifers, open green lawns, woodlands and water features. Visitors can enjoy courtyards, sculpture walls, and gardens with thousands of trees, roses, shrubs and flowers.
The not-for-profit institution also includes two indoor museum buildings with changing exhibitions, a café and museum shop.
Founder J. Seward Johnson Jr. created Grounds for Sculpture to make sculpture more accessible. Many of his own life-size sculptures, often a humorous twist on French Impressionistic paintings, are part of the landscape first opened to the public in 1992.
To register, send a check made out to DCCE, Master Gardeners, 20 Papermill Road, Smedley Park, Springfield, PA 19064. Or call 610-690-2655 for additional information.