Scott Aboretum & Gardens

Visit
- - - Visit Our “Garden of Ideas”
      
      Hours
      Dawn to Dusk, 365 days a year
      Office Hours
      Monday through Friday,
      8:30 am to noon and 1:00 to 4:30 pm.
  - - Hours
    - Directions
    - Parking
    - Virtual tour
Support
- - - Support the Arboretum
      
      Your support helps us delight, inspire, and educate the public. Donations, membership, and proceeds from special events helps us to create beautiful horticultural displays and educational programming.
Education & Events
- - - Programming & Events for All Ages
      
      We are proud to offer in-person and virtual programming for adults, students, families, and children. Whether you are looking for something recreational or educational, there is a program for you.
Get Involved
- - - Learn & Grow With Us
      
      Help us maintain our gardens and plant collections by getting involved with the Arboretum.
About
- - - A “Garden of Ideas”
      
      The Scott Arboretum cultivates a variety of plants that create some of the region’s most intimate, authentic, and accessible horticultural experiences.

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Categories

Wildlife and Conservation: Native Woody Plants

Aug 25, 2011 | Garden Plants, Sustainability Topics

Plenty of species, not just your human neighbors, are intrigued by what you plant in your...

Green Roof Insallation at the Wister Center-Part 2

Jun 18, 2011 | Garden Design, Garden Plants, Garden Practices, Sustainability Topics

Next the crane arm went up and down many times delivering pallets loaded with buckets of coarse...

Green Roof Installation on Wister Center-Part 1

Jun 18, 2011 | Garden Design, Garden Plants, Garden Practices, Happenings, Sustainability Topics

On a pleasant spring day in the final week of April, the foundations were laid for the fourth...

Tropical Sale Preview

May 18, 2011 | Containers, Garden Design, Garden Plants, Special Interest

A vast selection of unusual, vibrant tropical plants will overflow from the Wister Center May...

Making Burle Baskets

Apr 25, 2011 | Containers, Garden Design, Garden Plants, Happenings, Special Interest

Looking for new ideas for summer containers? In mid-May, the Arboretum will be putting out lush...

Rose Garden Renovations

Apr 22, 2011 | Garden Design, Garden Plants, Garden Practices, Happenings, Special Interest

In recent years, the Dean Bond Rose Garden has been hit hard by rose rosette disease. This is a...

Asclepias physocarpa

Mar 21, 2011 | Garden Plants

As we celebrate the first official day of spring, garden magazines are teasing us with great...

Airplants

Mar 1, 2011 | Garden Plants, Happenings

Bromeliads make both great houseplants and container plants in the sun and shade. This includes...

Ranking the scents and sights of Hamamelis

Feb 25, 2011 | Garden Plants

With the warming days has come the blooming of the witch hazels, Hamamelis. These early flowering...

Sub-Shrub Clematis

Nov 17, 2010 | Garden Plants

Last month while touring Battery Park with the Scott Associates’ bus trip, I was taken with a...

Tulipa batalinii ‘Bronze Charm’

Oct 13, 2010 | Garden Plants

This year’s bulb dividend is a wonderful species tulip, Tulipa batalinii ‘Bronze Charm’. This...

Four O’clock Flower

Sep 1, 2010 | Garden Plants

Our curator, Andrew Bunting, is always planting unusual tropicals and annuals in the Scott...

The Last Malus tschonoskii

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...

Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Ayesha’

Jul 6, 2010 | Garden Plants

While plant shopping with fellow garden enthusiasts, we discovered several great hydrangeas for...

Lindera reflexa

Jun 17, 2010 | Garden Design, Garden Plants

Part of our planting efforts at the Scott Arboretum are designed to disguise or hide the utilities...

Plants of the New College Avenue Border

Jun 9, 2010 | Garden Design, Garden Plants

Spring is time for planting and our volunteers and interns have been busy installing a new...

A Garden for Secrets

Jun 2, 2010 | Garden Design, Garden Plants

As the College prepares for Alumni Weekend, the Scott Arboretum is preparing to celebrate the...

Rosa ‘Swarthmore’

May 27, 2010 | Garden Plants, Happenings

This week we are preparing for our graduation tradition of pinning roses on seniors’ gowns. Often...

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