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...
by Becky Robert | Jun 9, 2010 | Garden Design, Garden Plants
Spring is time for planting and our volunteers and interns have been busy installing a new planting along College Avenue. As a result of the completion of the Wister Education Center and Greenhouse, the garden bed along College Ave. needed a face-lift. Originally this...
by Becky Robert | Jun 2, 2010 | Garden Design, Garden Plants
As the College prepares for Alumni Weekend, the Scott Arboretum is preparing to celebrate the installation of new garden, Chica Maynard ’48 garden. In the tradition of Swarthmore alumni, the Class of 1948 has established the Chica Maynard ’48 Cherry Border Fund in...
by Becky Robert | May 27, 2010 | Garden Plants, Happenings
This week we are preparing for our graduation tradition of pinning roses on seniors’ gowns. Often at this time of year, we are nervous about having enough roses in bloom to accommodate the graduating class. Because of our warm spring, the Dean Bond Rose Garden is...
by Becky Robert | Apr 12, 2010 | Garden Plants
Emerging out of the cracks and crevices of the stone wall within the Scott Entrance Garden is a perennial with fern-like foliage and an upright spike of yellow flowers. Commonly know as the ferny corydalis, Corydalis cheilanthifolia can stump the plant aficionado....
