While plant shopping with fellow garden enthusiasts, we discovered several great hydrangeas for...
Garden Seeds: Scott Arboretum & Gardens' Blog
In the Shadow of Abracadabra
As Sam Keitch enjoys the last weeks of his curatorial internship, he was called upon to create the...
Organic Lawn Care
In the fall 2009, a New York Times article about an innovative organic lawn care project at...
Actaea rubra
The Terry Shane garden is looking incredibly flush with foliage this time of year, with countless...
Lindera reflexa
Part of our planting efforts at the Scott Arboretum are designed to disguise or hide the utilities...
Plants of the New College Avenue Border
Spring is time for planting and our volunteers and interns have been busy installing a new...
A Garden for Secrets
As the College prepares for Alumni Weekend, the Scott Arboretum is preparing to celebrate the...
Rosa ‘Swarthmore’
This week we are preparing for our graduation tradition of pinning roses on seniors’ gowns. Often...
American Yellowwood
It is dubious to make a claim that something is your favorite plant, but when someone asks me what...
Plant Conservation Day
Today is Plant Conservation Day! It was started in 2001 by the AZH, Association of Zoological...
Gold Medal Garden
The Gold Medal Award Program of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society was originally conceived by...
Cercis canadensis
There is nothing more exciting than taking a hike and stumbling into a patch of the eastern...
Late Flowering Cherries
At the Scott Arboretum in the spring the flowering of the magnolias and cherries is unprecedented...
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman Humans often look at the world from their point of view. When we learn about the...
Corydalis cheilanthifolia
Emerging out of the cracks and crevices of the stone wall within the Scott Entrance Garden is a...
Garden Gems
While during the spring season, many people are captivated by the stunning array of cherry blooms...
Wood Ducks on Crum Creek
' In the spring of 1987 I was invited by a local birder, Helen McWilliams, to go look at the Wood...
Martin Forest
Today, I took a hike through the Martin Forest with conservation biologist, Roger Latham. The...