# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Garden at Federal Twist - A Special Lecture by Jim Golden
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Event Description**: The Garden at Federal Twist = A Special Lecture by Jim Golden

The Watnong Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society invites local gardeners to a special lecture presentation on Saturday, November 8 at 10:00 am.  This chapter meeting will be held at the Somerset County Environmental Education Center, 190 Lord Stirling Road in Basking Ridge.

James Golden, the owner and gardener at Federal Twist, a Garden Conservancy Open Days garden near Stockton, NJ, will talk about how he created his naturalistic garden.  Federal Twist is on clay soil so wet that Golden has described it as “like liquid plastic.”  The garden is Golden’s version of a meadow filled with native and nonnative plants.  

Admission is free to all.  Chapter dues are $10/year ($15 per household) for anyone wanting to join in the future.

Golden’s garden has been featured in many gardening magazines, Monty Don’s BBC series on American gardens, and in Golden’s own book,  “The View From Federal Twist” (https://www.amazon.com/View-Federal-Twist-Thinking-Ourselves/dp/1999734572).

For pictures of the garden, see Federal Twist Design and the NYT article linked here:  https://federaltwist.com/blog/2013/10/16/the-good-for-nothing-garden.  

Also, for drone views of the garden see:  https://federaltwist.com/blog/autumn-test-flight.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Basking Ridge
- **state**: NJ
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Environmental Education Center at Lord Stirling Park
- **lat**: 40.695178943
- **long**: -74.521263185
- **full address**: Environmental Education Center at Lord Stirling Park, 190 Lord Stirling Rd,Basking Ridge,NJ,United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Environmental Education Center at Lord Stirling Park, 190 Lord Stirling Rd,Basking Ridge,NJ,United States
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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