The Garden Club of Harrington Park welcomes back Guest Speaker Chris Rubino, Sales Manager for Monrovia Growers, to present "What's New in Perennials 2012" at their February 2nd meeting, at 7:30 pm in the Harrington Park Library. Rubino's slide program will focus on Monrovia's extensive new plant offerings for 2012 -- exciting new cultivars plus re-introductions of some old time favorites -- as well as the best new products throughout the rest of the industry.

Rubino travels extensively to domestic and international gardens for Monrovia, the largest nursery grower in the US, looking for new and improved plants for the American garden. He has a broad knowledge of plants and gardening having worked in retail nursery sales, landscape design, installation and maintenance, and horticultural laboratory research, for The American Rose Society Test Garden, The Cornell Plantations and Arboretum, The Walt Disney Epcot Center & Animal Kingdom, Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, and Monrovia Nursery Sales in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, New Jersey and New York . A native of Buffalo, New York, and a graduate of Cornell University,

Rubino is also the co-founder of an innovative company producing environmentally produced, recyclable and renewable solar lights and devices.

Beat the winter doldrums -- come to this informative, inspiring presentation and meet some dazzling new plants! All gardeners, active and armchair, from any town, are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. For more details or directions, visit www.gardenclubofharringtonpark.com or call Garden Club President Gerri Gibney at 201-768-2615.