As the snow melts and you begin your garden clean-up, I am sure you are reviewing your spring to...
Garden Seeds: Scott Arboretum & Gardens' Blog
FSC Wood
You may have noticed on the back of many catalogs and mailings from environmentally conscious...
Innovation
When designing a LEED-certified building there are many strategies such as storm water management...
Zanthoxylum simulans
When all of the deciduous trees drop their leaves in the fall we get the opportunity to admire the...
Bald Eagle at Scott Arboretum
On February 4th at approximately 1:30 pm a group of people huddled under the grove of trees...
Snow Load on Plants
After the large snow fall we had on February 5th and 6th you have probably looked outside and have...
Heritage Tree Program
Nether Providence Township has recently established Heritage Tree designation for some of the...
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver Well-known novelist Barbara Kingsolver takes us on a different journey in...
Named 100 Great Sites for those who like to Garden
The Scott Arboretum's Garden Seeds has been named in the top 100 great sites for gardeners by XRAY...
American Elms at Scott
While the Arboretum was founded over 80 years many of the most fantastic tree specimens at the...
Re-envisioning an American Tradition: the Turfgrass Lawn
In today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, garden writer Virginia A. Smith discusses the alternatives to...
American Planetree
One of the most majestic of all the native trees in the landscape is the American planetree,...
Deep Economy
By Bill McKibben The term “deep ecology” was coined in the 1970s and references a philosophy...
Reconnaissance Mission
Last week Yvonne Post’s lead goats, Wyeth and Rodin, visited the Scott Arboretum on a...
Acer pensylvanicum ‘Erythrocladum’
I have really been feeling the transition of the seasons lately. Leaves are dropping along with...
Hollies for Gardeners
by Christopher Bailes As the year comes to a close, and winter has set in, it is a wonderful time...
Greens for Wreaths: Magnolia grandiflora ‘Edith Bogue’
This is the time of the year that we begin harvesting greens at the Scott Arboretum to use for the...
Camellias
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to visit the Swarthmore garden of the renown plantsman Charles...