by Becky Robert | Aug 27, 2010 | Garden Plants, Garden Practices
This summer saw the removal of the last Malus tschonoskii on campus. As part of our mission to display great plants for Delaware Valley gardeners, we trial new introductions and cultivars of plants. Beginning in the 1980s, Scott Arboretum participated in the National...
by Becky Robert | Jul 13, 2010 | Plant of the Week
The plant of the week is going digital. For many years now, the responsibility of the Scott Intern has been to feature a different plant every week in the Scott Arboretum offices. This display helped educate the intern about the plants in the garden as well as the...
by Becky Robert | Jul 6, 2010 | Garden Plants
While plant shopping with fellow garden enthusiasts, we discovered several great hydrangeas for our gardens including: H. arborescens ‘Green Dragon’ and H. serrata ‘Oamacha Variegata’, but the find of the weekend was H. macrophylla ‘Ayesha’. We were all struck by the...
by Becky Robert | Jul 1, 2010 | Garden Design, Happenings, Special Interest
As Sam Keitch enjoys the last weeks of his curatorial internship, he was called upon to create the latest addition to the Arboretum’s ephemeral art using dead or dying trees. Many may remember the “blue tree” created by another curatorial intern, Todd Rounsiville, out...
by Becky Robert | Jun 17, 2010 | Garden Design, Garden Plants
Part of our planting efforts at the Scott Arboretum are designed to disguise or hide the utilities of campus buildings. We have used Cryptomeria japonica ‘Yoshino’ to hide the loading dock of Clothier Hall, Viburnum rhytidophyllum ‘Cree’ to camouflage the...
