Ever wondered about the incredible journey honey takes to get from the neighborhood’s flowers to...
#BranchOut: Notes from a Beehive Installation
Learn more about one of our favorite pollinators, bees. Join us for #BranchOut, a digital learning...
Leveling Up your Rain Garden
Looking for planting inspiration for your rain garden this spring?...
Swarthmore Roundabout: Gravel Gardening
This summer, we discussed the techniques and benefits of gravel gardening. The Scott Arboretum’s...
Tree Protection Zone
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” --Warren...
American Rose Trials for Sustainability
Since 2012, the Scott Arboretum has been participating in American Rose Trials for Sustainability...
Restoring the Crum Woods
The complication of the SEPTA Viaduct brings to a close a five-year period of construction in the...
Chimaphila maculata
As we reach fall foliage peak here in the Delaware Valley, it is a great time to take a walk in...
Organic Lawn Goes Blue
Perhaps you noticed patches of blue grass in front of Parrish and Clothier Halls last fall. No,...
What is that smell?
Have you ever notice a “fishy” smell coming from the Dean Bond Rose Garden? This is part of our...
Beyond Beauty: Why your Rose Garden needs more then Roses
Have you visited the modern rose garden? The one interplanted with all types of flowering...
Gardening Best Friends: Allium and Roses
Is your garden plagued by aphids, slugs, cabbage worms, or other pests? If so, Allium may be the...
Allaira petiolata, Garlic Mustard: An ongoing effort in Invasive Removals
Last month, the Arboretum held the annual Crum Creek Clean-up. With the help of 40 staff, faculty,...
Bio Char: Exploring a New Soil Amendment
What is it? Biochar is the carbon-rich product that results when biomass such as wood, manure, or...
Planting Green Roofs: Sowing Seeds
With the installation of the green roof on Lang Performing Arts Center (our fifth green roof), we...
What are those brown patches?
Although the combined 6 ½ acres of organic lawns below Parrish Hall are thriving, you might have...
Removing Invasive Vines
April was invasive plant, pest, and disease awareness month and a great time to remove invasives...
Beautiful Biocontrol: The Scoliid Wasp
If, in late summer, you notice a cloud of wasps careening in arcs and figure eights across the...