Relaxing at Delaware Botanic Gardens’ Sip & Saunter
Annual event serves as a fundraiser toward continued expansion on Pepper Creek
The Delaware Botanic Gardens hosted its annual Sip & Saunter June 15. Volunteer Jim Marshall takes a picture of Carol and Madeline Christenson as they enter the event. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
June 21, 2022
Delaware Botanic Gardens hosted its annual Sip & Saunter June 15. The event featured beer, wine and cocktail tasting stations provided by Dogfish Head, catering by Good Earth Market and music by 5th Avenue Jazz.
Delaware Botanic Gardens, 30220 Piney Neck Road, Dagsboro, is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Sunday.
For more information, go to delawaregardens.org, call 302-321-9061, or email Executive Director Sheryl Swed at sherylswed@delawaregardens.org.
As far as bathrooms buildings go, the new ones at the botanic gardens are about as nice as they get. That’s a 1,000-gallon cistern and, according to architect and designer Scott Edmonston, over time the wood exterior will turn grey. The idea is that it will blend right in with the woods, he said.
With her friend Sally Waller holding back a branch, Barbara Ann Lipp gets her photo taken by photographer Ray Bojarski down at The Point overlooking Pepper Creek. Lipp, from Baltimore County, Md., is the naming rights sponsor for The Point.
Many of the flowers are blooming in the Meadow Garden designed by Dutch garden- and meadow-designer and author Piet Oudolf.
The event was catered by Good Earth Market. Market owner Sue Ryan serves up a plate, “with a little bit of everything that Good Earth can do.”
5th Avenue Jazz provided the music to which people were sipping and sauntering. Pictured are Vince Varrassi on keyboard, Monte Wisbrock on sax and Ken Schleifer on drums.
Christie and Aaron Bonniwell stroll through the meadow, which is bright green right now.
The blue-tailed skink is just hanging out on the side of the bathroom building in the shade of the cistern.
Sussex County Council President Michael Vincent shakes the hand of Sally Gore, who along with sister Peg Emerson, is a naming rights sponsor of The Learning Nest at the botanic gardens.
Sisters Peg Emerson and Sally Gore are the naming rights sponsors of The Learning Nest. SUBMITTED PHOTO
