The Garden Club of Essex Fells held its annual fall fundraiser on November 8, 2023 at the Essex Fells Country Club. The theme of the day was "The Art of Topiary" featuring keynote speaker, Ken Selody, owner of Atlock Farm in Somerset, New Jersey. Atlock Farm is a topiary nursery with an extraordinary array of well trained topiaries and many other unique plants and flowers. Ken, is a former "Martha Stewart Living" contributing editor, and is highly regarded in gardening circles and has also been featured on HGTV.