Join fellow PBK's and guests on May 16 from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. for a tour of a nineteenth century Main Line manor house and its legacy gardens designed, in part, by Frederick Law Olmsted, "father" of American landscape architecture. The Haas family donated its 42-acre Villanova estate to the land-conservation nonprofit Natural Lands in 2016; two years later, Stoneleigh opened to the public. The beautiful gardens are rapidly evolving into exemplars for visitors to appreciate the benefits of gardening with biodiverse native plant species. Even birders reap the rewards of increased numbers of warblers and other spring migrants finding food and shelter at Stoneleigh.The one and a half hour tour includes the Great Lawn, surrounded by specimen heritage trees, the Olmsted meadow, and multiple garden types, from formal to naturalised. A highlight of the Tudor-style stately home is a 1931 Aeolian-Skinner organ and, in the basement, its plethora of pipes.

Cost of the tour is $16. There will be an optional pay-your-own lunch afterward at a nearby restaurant TBD.

Register here.