by Josh Coceano | Feb 18, 2011 | Plant of the Week
Parrotia persica by Sharples Dining Hall has exfoliating bark which adds interest to this mid-size tree (20-40’). photo credit: J. Coceano Rohdea japonica in the Wister Garden creates a vase shaped clump with thick, dark green, strap-like leaves. This great evergreen...
by Josh Coceano | Feb 14, 2011 | Plant of the Month
January will be a month to remember. Twenty-nine of the thirty-one days recorded temperatures below freezing. The record low was eight degrees on January 24th. With that said the next few weeks will reveal how marginally hardy plants fared. The mission of the Scott...
by Josh Coceano | Feb 9, 2011 | Plant of the Week
Hamamelis mollis ‘Early Bright’ is beginning to flower by Faulkner Tennis Courts and Fraternity Houses. This cultivar’s bright yellow flowers open three to four weeks ahead of the specie. It will be available at the 2011 Scott Associates Plant Sale. Photo credit: J....
by Josh Coceano | Jan 31, 2011 | Plant of the Week
Hamamelis vernalis, blooming in front of Sharples Dining Hall, is a native, multi-stem, dense, rounded shrub noted for exceptional hardiness. photo credit: J. Coceano Acer rufinerve, planted beside the Lang Performing Arts Center, is a small maple, up to 35’ tall, for...
by Josh Coceano | Jan 26, 2011 | Plant of the Week
Carex morrowii ‘Ice Dance’ is a great deer resistant sedge found in the winter containers of the Terry Shane Teaching Garden. photo credit: J. Coceano Cedrus deodora ‘Shalimar’, found near the visitor parking off of Whittier Place, has graceful pendulous branches...
