Women in Wildlife (including Edith Wallace) Honored
Botanist extraordinaire Edith Wallace, a friend of the Celery Farm, was part of Conserve Wildlife Foundation's 10th annual Women in Wildlife Awards last week. (Edith is second from left.) MacKenzie Hall, one of this year's winners (third from right), has done a lot of work on bats and American Kestrels for the state. (She helped me get a bat-sonar monitoring for the Fell House four years ago or so. The sonar confirmed we had a few Big Brown Bats.)
Former Governor Christie Whitman is in the middle.
Video of garden tour at New Jersey Botanical Garden
https:youtube.com/watch?v=9xrp8HRr75g August 2018
"Green Times" the June 2018 newsletter of Passaic County Master Gardeners
Green Times June 2018 Page 2 FROM THE DESK OF AMY ROWE A big congratulations to all the award winners and Class of 2018 graduates that were honored at the awards ceremony at Laurelwood Arboretum on May 22nd. Bravo! A few photos are featured below and on page 3. The MG class wrapped up on 5/24 and I am preparing for next year's class while we look for a new program coordinator. We had a strong applicant pool and the search committee will be meeting in the next week to discuss applicants. I hope you all have a safe and productive summer. Thank you for your time and dedication to the Rutgers Master Gardener program! Amy Rowe, Ph. D. County Agent II (Associate Professor)
“From the Potting Shed” the May 2018 newsletter of Bergen County Master Gardeners
Edith and Inge: Our newest ‘Lifetime Members’ Edith Wallace and Ingeborg “Inge” Langer, both from the MG Class of 1998, have been named “Lifetime Members” of the MG of BC. The “Lifetime Member” designation is given to those who have been members of the MG of BC for 20 years and have performed more than 1,000 hours of volunteer service. Edith Wallace, the “lilac lady,” lives in Fair Lawn after what she said was a “big mistake” by living in Morris County for a year. “I missed you all,” she said.Edith Wallace, right, receives her MG of BC Lifetime Member certificate from Carolyn Gretchen, president, at the April 24 MG meeting. Inge Langer will receive her certificate at a later date. --------------- What’s the best thing about being an MG? Edith replied: “The many friends and acquaintances, continually learning new things, and the variety of opportunities for participation.” Edith’s volunteering has been at NJBG/Skylands where she has aided in the identification, labeling, mapping, surveying, photographing,
and maintenance of the lilac garden. In addition to being active in the lilac garden, Edith volunteers as a Sunday garden tour guide. She is currently an NJBG delegate to the Garden State Gardens Consortium (GSGC) and part of its speakers' bureau. In fact, Edith lectured about lilacs at our March meeting. For more information about Edith, visit her website. “When I visit a garden it is a delight to be recognized by a staff member who is also a GSGC delegate,” she said. Edith described herself as a gardener who visits many gardens each year — eight so far in 2018.
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“From the Potting Shed” the March 2015 newsletter of Bergen County Master Gardeners
Meet Edith Wallace, MG Class of 1998 by Barb Johansson [email protected]
If one looks up “gadfly” in the dictionary, Edith’s description of herself is most appropriate, as she often acts as “a constructively provocative stimulus” to get people to think outside the box. Born at a time when parents often guided their children toward a pre-selected profession, her father took her as a three year old for walks where he identified trees as a foundation of a lifelong favorite activity. At age 16, she met her husband, Gordon, at a dance her first week at Montclair State. She’s sure he was most impressed with her ease at handling snakes rather than her dancing ability! Graduating from Montclair when high school teachers were wanted, then from Rutgers when college teachers were needed, she never had to search for a job. Edith began her teaching career at Westwood H.S. She then taught at Englewood Hospital School of Nursing. With a Ph.D. in zoology from Rutgers, she taught Biology for 29 years at William Paterson College. In retirement she took horticulture classes at Bergen Community College and earned certificates in Botany and Horticulture at NYBG.
Now retired from classroom teaching, this woman juggles jobs in so many organizations, it’s amazing! She has her own website for information about her scheduled walks, talks and presentations, some given at Skylands where she oversees the care of their lilac collection and is on their Advisory Board. Edith is Skylands’ representative to the Garden State Gardens Consortium. An Audubon member (since high school), she is their plant support person on walks, and will present at the March meeting of the NJ Native Plant Society. She’s often at meetings of the Fyke Nature Association. With master gardener Nancy Bristow, Edith wrote Identifying Woody Plants at the Celery Farm Natural Area.
Asked for her opinion of the finest public garden in the east, she readily cites “Longwood” with NYBG a close second. She is most happy to work with members of MGofBC, a wonderful group of individuals.
Edith looks back on her long career with the comment, “If, as an adult, you can do what you liked best to do as a child, you are most fortunate. It is astounding to be recognized for what I like to do best: taking walks in the woods, meadows and fields with old and new friends…identifying things.”
The 2013 Women & Wildlife Awards
The Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s Women & Wildlife Awards celebrate and recognize outstanding women for their achievements and advances in protecting New Jersey’s endangered and threatened species.
Service Award Edith has devoted her life to inspiring people, young and old, to make the wild places of New Jersey part of their everyday experiences.
For more than half a century, Dr. Edith Wallace has devoted her life to inspiring people, young and old, to make the wild places of New Jersey part of their everyday experiences. Her belief that everyone deserves to learn about the natural world, in combination with her ability to share her immense knowledge with the public, has changed so many lives for the better. Edith’s Women & Wildlife Award nomination was supported by an unprecedented 125 colleagues, students and friends whose strong connection to the environment was forged by her dedication.
Dr. Edith Wallace earned a Ph.D. in zoology at Rutgers University. She is the former chair of the Biology Department at William Paterson University and has earned certificates in field botany, plant classification, and ornamental horticulture from the New York Botanical Garden. Edith received the Bergen County Audubon Society’s Harold Feinberg Conservation Award in 2011.
Edith’s nature walks and presentations have helped northern New Jerseyans to better understand the importance of native plants to wildlife and their function in maintaining biodiversity in our environment. She has played an instrumental role in the Meadowlands Butterfly Festival and other nature events. Edith has written numerous fact sheets for the Rutgers Cooperative Extension, and she co-authored the New Jersey Botanical Garden’s Conifers in the Botanical Garden and Identifying Woody Plants of the Celery Farm.
Edith has been a Master Gardener for 15 years, contributing over 4,000 volunteer hours. She was recognized by Rutgers Cooperative Extension in 2012 for her outstanding contributions to the Rutgers Master Gardener program and exemplary service to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. In 2011, the Master Gardener Association of Passaic County established the “Dr. Edith Wallace Scholarship” for high school students planning to study horticulture in college.
The Conserve Wildlife Foundation’s Women & Wildlife Awards celebrate and recognize outstanding women for their achievements and advances in protecting New Jersey’s endangered and threatened species.
Service Award Edith has devoted her life to inspiring people, young and old, to make the wild places of New Jersey part of their everyday experiences.
For more than half a century, Dr. Edith Wallace has devoted her life to inspiring people, young and old, to make the wild places of New Jersey part of their everyday experiences. Her belief that everyone deserves to learn about the natural world, in combination with her ability to share her immense knowledge with the public, has changed so many lives for the better. Edith’s Women & Wildlife Award nomination was supported by an unprecedented 125 colleagues, students and friends whose strong connection to the environment was forged by her dedication.
Dr. Edith Wallace earned a Ph.D. in zoology at Rutgers University. She is the former chair of the Biology Department at William Paterson University and has earned certificates in field botany, plant classification, and ornamental horticulture from the New York Botanical Garden. Edith received the Bergen County Audubon Society’s Harold Feinberg Conservation Award in 2011.
Edith’s nature walks and presentations have helped northern New Jerseyans to better understand the importance of native plants to wildlife and their function in maintaining biodiversity in our environment. She has played an instrumental role in the Meadowlands Butterfly Festival and other nature events. Edith has written numerous fact sheets for the Rutgers Cooperative Extension, and she co-authored the New Jersey Botanical Garden’s Conifers in the Botanical Garden and Identifying Woody Plants of the Celery Farm.
Edith has been a Master Gardener for 15 years, contributing over 4,000 volunteer hours. She was recognized by Rutgers Cooperative Extension in 2012 for her outstanding contributions to the Rutgers Master Gardener program and exemplary service to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. In 2011, the Master Gardener Association of Passaic County established the “Dr. Edith Wallace Scholarship” for high school students planning to study horticulture in college.
PRESENTATION OF 2013 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Each year a volunteer is acknowledged for dedication and service to the New Jersey
Botanical Garden/Skylands Association. This year’s recipient is a long
time member of the Association and a Master Gardener. This person is
loved from the Pine Barrens to the Highlands and down to the Jersey
Shore. She has given tours of our gardens. She has worked in
gardens, especially in one in particular. She has given programs and
lectures and collaborated on educational brochures and books. She is most
generous with her time and talents. Our beloved Lilac Lady, Miss
Daisy. This year’s Volunteer of the Year: Edith Wallace.
Each year a volunteer is acknowledged for dedication and service to the New Jersey
Botanical Garden/Skylands Association. This year’s recipient is a long
time member of the Association and a Master Gardener. This person is
loved from the Pine Barrens to the Highlands and down to the Jersey
Shore. She has given tours of our gardens. She has worked in
gardens, especially in one in particular. She has given programs and
lectures and collaborated on educational brochures and books. She is most
generous with her time and talents. Our beloved Lilac Lady, Miss
Daisy. This year’s Volunteer of the Year: Edith Wallace.
Glen Rock resident honored by Master Gardeners - NorthJersey.com
Dr. Edith Wallace, a volunteer in the Rutgers Master Gardener program, was
recognized by Rutgers Cooperative Extension at an awards program in November,
2012 in New Brunswick for her outstanding contributions to the Rutgers Master
Gardener program and exemplary service to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment
Station. She has been a Master Gardener for 15 years, contributing over 4,000
volunteer hours.
Known affectionately as the "Lilac Lady," Wallace has had a direct and positive
impact on the extensive lilac collection at the New Jersey Botanical Garden. She
has aided in the identification, labeling, mapping, photographing, surveying and
maintenance of the Lilac Garden. As a lilac "expert," she has been responsible
for the Lilac Brochure, and given numerous lilac garden tours and lectures to
many groups of people in New Jersey.
Wallace co-wrote 13 Rutgers Fact Sheets on various topics including crickets, azaleas, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and
geraniums. Offering Fact Sheets to Helpline clients gives people a resource that provides details on problems and their
solutions to various horticultural topics. She has also co-authored the NJBG’s Conifers in the Botanical Garden and
Identifying Woody Plants of the Celery Farm. She presents lectures to groups with interests in visiting gardens and
horticulture as well as leading walks for various groups.
Because of her teaching abilities, encouragement, creativity and compassion, her peers in the Master Gardener Association
of Passaic County (MGAPC) established the "Dr. Edith Wallace Scholarship" in her honor in 2011 to distribute funds to
deserving high school students who want to study horticulture in college. This spring, three students were presented with
checks by Wallace and the MGAPC Executive Board.
"Because of Dr. Edith Wallace’s unselfish volunteerism, her contributions to the Rutgers Master Gardener Program and
Rutgers Cooperative Extension have been invaluable and have positively impacted and enhanced Rutgers Cooperative
Extension’s mission of excellence and service," said Passaic County Agricultural Assistant Elaine Fogerty.
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NorthJersey.com
Dr. Edith Wallace, a volunteer in the Rutgers Master Gardener program, was
recognized by Rutgers Cooperative Extension at an awards program in November,
2012 in New Brunswick for her outstanding contributions to the Rutgers Master
Gardener program and exemplary service to the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment
Station. She has been a Master Gardener for 15 years, contributing over 4,000
volunteer hours.
Known affectionately as the "Lilac Lady," Wallace has had a direct and positive
impact on the extensive lilac collection at the New Jersey Botanical Garden. She
has aided in the identification, labeling, mapping, photographing, surveying and
maintenance of the Lilac Garden. As a lilac "expert," she has been responsible
for the Lilac Brochure, and given numerous lilac garden tours and lectures to
many groups of people in New Jersey.
Wallace co-wrote 13 Rutgers Fact Sheets on various topics including crickets, azaleas, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and
geraniums. Offering Fact Sheets to Helpline clients gives people a resource that provides details on problems and their
solutions to various horticultural topics. She has also co-authored the NJBG’s Conifers in the Botanical Garden and
Identifying Woody Plants of the Celery Farm. She presents lectures to groups with interests in visiting gardens and
horticulture as well as leading walks for various groups.
Because of her teaching abilities, encouragement, creativity and compassion, her peers in the Master Gardener Association
of Passaic County (MGAPC) established the "Dr. Edith Wallace Scholarship" in her honor in 2011 to distribute funds to
deserving high school students who want to study horticulture in college. This spring, three students were presented with
checks by Wallace and the MGAPC Executive Board.
"Because of Dr. Edith Wallace’s unselfish volunteerism, her contributions to the Rutgers Master Gardener Program and
Rutgers Cooperative Extension have been invaluable and have positively impacted and enhanced Rutgers Cooperative
Extension’s mission of excellence and service," said Passaic County Agricultural Assistant Elaine Fogerty.
North Jersey Media Group Inc.
NorthJersey.com
Susan Farley for The New York Times
"People do ask me what it is that makes me go," said Edith Wallace, shown here with her husband Gordon. "I went to one, and it was great, and then another and another. It's just snooping in people's back yard."
In New Jersey, Edith Wallace of Glen Rock, and her husband, Gordon, often plan their vacations around garden tours. Mrs. Wallace said she has visited more than 60 public and private gardens in the metropolitan area, and has traveled with her husband as far as Texas and California to attend Open Day events.
“People do ask me what it is that makes me go,” said Mrs. Wallace, a retired professor who taught anatomy and physiology at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J. “I went to one, and it was great, and then another and another. It’s just snooping in people’s back yard.”
For Mrs. Wallace, who has used her retirement to hone skills in botany, the tours also provide fodder for lectures she gives to local garden clubs. One of her favorite subjects is visiting gardens in the metropolitan area.
“Every garden needs an audience,” she said. “What good is it if nobody comes to see it?”
From The New York Times - Not-So-Secret Gardens - June 10, 2007
“People do ask me what it is that makes me go,” said Mrs. Wallace, a retired professor who taught anatomy and physiology at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J. “I went to one, and it was great, and then another and another. It’s just snooping in people’s back yard.”
For Mrs. Wallace, who has used her retirement to hone skills in botany, the tours also provide fodder for lectures she gives to local garden clubs. One of her favorite subjects is visiting gardens in the metropolitan area.
“Every garden needs an audience,” she said. “What good is it if nobody comes to see it?”
From The New York Times - Not-So-Secret Gardens - June 10, 2007
