by Liz Haegele | Jan 22, 2009 | Garden Plants, Pests & Diseases, Special Interest
You probably haven’t seen the Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis. Yet. This beetle from Asia was first discovered in this country in 2002 in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan and currently populates about 5,000 square miles in various states. The closest to us...
by Liz Haegele | Jan 15, 2009 | Garden Plants, Happenings
Winter has settled in at here the Scott Arboretum. While we haven’t gotten any decent snow yet, the temperatures are dropping and the ground is pretty well frozen. This time of year I find the structure and shape of some of the Arboretum’s oldest and...
by Liz Haegele | Dec 23, 2008 | Book Reviews
By Susan Freinkel In Susan Freinkel’s account of the history of Castanea dentata, the American chestnut, she brings the reader back to a time when this tree was the dominant species of the Eastern deciduous forest. Called a “perfect tree” by some...
by Liz Haegele | Dec 3, 2008 | Garden Plants, Happenings, Special Interest, Uncategorized
When I was the curatorial intern here at the Scott Arboretum, I was given the task of producing the annual evaluation and report of our James R. Frorer Holly collection which would be then given to the Holly Society of America. I remember quiet afternoons by myself...
by Liz Haegele | Nov 26, 2008 | Book Reviews
By Sara Stein Sara Stein wrote Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of our Backyards in 1995. Her follow-up book was written a couple of years later and builds on the concept of the suburban backyard as a wildlife habitat. In her first book on the topic, Stein...
