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Delaware Botanic Gardens hosts annual Sip & Saunter

Participants enjoy libations, music, light refreshments on summer evening while meandering about
Delaware Botanic Gardens hosted its annual Sip & Saunter June 20. Shown are Delaware Botanic Gardens Board Vice President Alison Willocks, left, and Board Treasurer Carol McCloud. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
June 24, 2024

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Delaware Botanic Gardens
30220 Piney Neck Road
Dagsboro, DE 19939
United States

Delaware Botanic Gardens hosted its annual Sip & Saunter June 20. The event featured beer, wine and cocktail stations provided by Dogfish Head, catering by Good Earth Market and music by Vincent Varrassi.

The gardens, at 30220 Piney Neck Road, Dagsboro, are open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday through Sunday, with guided tours each day beginning at 10 a.m.

For more information, go to delawaregardens.org, call 302-321-9061, or email Executive Director Sheryl Swed at sherylswed@delawaregardens.org.

 

Volunteer Dennis Mahoney chauffeurs guest Lena Vebares around the event.
An eagle camera will be installed at the gardens in the fall. Helping that take place are Delaware Botanic Gardens members Mike and Sue Masciandaro, left, and Stacy and Richard Hoffman, who are making a donation in the name of the Rouben & Violet Jiji Foundation.
Work will soon begin on the gardens’ new pavilion. This is the construction team that’s going to make it happen. Shown are (l-r) SEA Studio Architects owner Scott Edmonston, SEA Studio Architect Project Manager Erich Pfeffer, Delaware Botanic Gardens Deputy Executive Director Stephen Pryce Lea, Sun Building Group owner James Grant, Delaware Botanic Gardens Executive Director Sheryl Swed, Delaware Botanic Gardens President Ray Sander, Pennoni Vice President Mark Davidson and Lane Builders owner Jeff Burton.
If it’s a Delaware Botanic Gardens event, the music is provided by Vince Varrassi and 5th Avenue.
Delaware Botanic Gardens Executive Director Sheryl Swed and President Ray Sander.
Tyler and Sarah Powell enjoy the event. Sarah works with DelDOT and was part of the team who oversaw the shoreline restoration project.
Good Earth provided food. Shown are (l-r) Delaware Botanic Gardens Membership Manager Angie Phinney, Luis Herrara, Josh McCabe and C Hirst.
Nothing to see here – just a troll climbing out from underneath the bridge.
The green and yellow leaves on this sun-backed sunflower are nearly translucent.
A Medusa-theme sea witch rising from the earth.
Fiddler crabs look a lot cuter when they’re small enough to fit in a tiny hole in the mud.
This lizard blends into the leave-covered wood floor.
The colors are bright in the meandering garden.
Delaware Botanic Gardens and the Delaware Department of Transportation partnered on this shoreline restoration project along Pepper Creek.
Volunteer Cheryl Quirk looks over the meadow garden from one of the viewing mounds.
A field of sunflowers always looks nice.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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