THURSDAY 11/30 - The Arboretum is CLOSED today due to construction on Hobart Avenue. Check back for updates.

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What's Beautiful Now? April 2019

Pieris japonica  Japanese Andromeda

Spring is truly here and things are popping so fast I can scarcely keep up with our What's in Bloom webpage!

From when I first started working on this blog a week ago to n...

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Welcome to the Jungle - Orchids

Let the Arboretum brighten up your day with a virtual or in-person tour of the Louise Muncie Roehm Greenhouse!

Fat Plants, Air Plants, and Carnivorous Plants, oh my!  "Step onto my peristome," said the Pitcher Plant to the fly . . .

Built in 1997 as a reproduction of the original greenhouse, which was located in front of Wisner House, we use ...

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A Young Gardener

The cultural and political legacy of Thomas Jefferson is complicated, just as the man himself was. The man who wrote that "all men are created equal" kept other human beings as slaves. The man who kept slaves also wrote "The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it." The man eventually elected to lead the...

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