by Andrew Bunting | Sep 19, 2008 | Garden Plants
When I first came to Swarthmore in the summer of 1986, I used to frequent the Taco Bell on Baltimore Pike (what can I say, I was an intern). One day I was parked in the back where the dumpster sits, and growing along the fence-line was a plant which had leaves similar...
by Andrew Bunting | Sep 15, 2008 | Garden Design
The Scott Arboretum comprises the campus of Swarthmore College. If there was a way to quantify the most frequently visited spot on campus it would most likely be the pond in the Terry Shane Teaching garden. Children and adults alike find this to be both an intriguing...
by Andrew Bunting | Sep 9, 2008 | Garden Plants, Special Interest
Bordering Swarthmore College and the Scott Arboretum are the Crum Woods. In the last several hundreds of years these woods have been logged, significantly impacted by humans and more recently ravaged by a large white-tailed deer population and the invasion of many...
by Andrew Bunting | Sep 2, 2008 | Garden Plants
August is perhaps the most challenging of all the months during the growing season for the home gardener. Perennial and annual gardens alike look tired and overgrown and many flowering shrubs and trees have finished flowering for the season. However, this time of the...
by Andrew Bunting | Aug 29, 2008 | Garden Plants, Garden Practices
You need not travel to the tropics to see bananas growing and thriving. Over the last several years the Scott Arboretum has grown nearly a dozen kinds of bananas, including a couple species that are hardy in Swarthmore. Without doubt my favorite banana is the red...
