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Asclepias physocarpa

As we celebrate the first official day of spring, garden magazines are teasing us with great annuals for our summer garden. The conversation starter Asclepias physocapa is featured as a plant pick in Fine Gardening’s April issue this spring. This delightful Asclepias...

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

By Terry Tempest Williams Williams deals with loss on many levels in her moving account of her mother’s cancer and the rising of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Each chapter (except for one) is named after one of Williams’ favorite bird species as well as a notation...

New Years Resolution

If you are still searching for a New Years Resolution, how about garden journaling? “To effectively journal is to learn the art of observation,” said Elizabeth Haegele, a horticulturalist who teaches nature journaling at the Scott Arboretum. Learn about some of the...

Plants of the Week – December 13

Near the Hamamelis collection, Prunus subhirtella ‘Autumnalis Rosea’ semi-double pink flower’s appears sporadically in fall, then fully flower the following spring. photo credit: J. Coceano Lagerstroemia fauriei ‘Fantasy’, found near Old Tarble, is a handsome small...

Steelroot

A piece of the nationally recognized Steve Tobin’s Steelroot series was permanently installed at the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College this November. A donation from an anonymous member of the Scott Associates, this fine art sculpture was inspired by tree roots....