lectures
Gardens and Tonic
A series of virtual webinars with horticulture professionals. Grab your favorite beverage and join a featured horticulture professional for plant-related topics, adventures, and stories – as well as design-focused talks on private and public gardens.
Travels at Twelve
A series of free virtual webinars with horticulture professionals and enthusiasts. Grab your lunch and join our featured speakers as they discuss their garden and landscape travels from around the globe!
Collaborative Lectures
The Scott Arboretum partners with other horticultural organizations to offer informative lectures about gardening.
Upcoming Lectures
Lecture: When Trees Testify: Living With and Learning From Trees
Chang Hou Hall 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA, United StatesCo-Sponsored with: Join us for a compelling talk with biologist and author Beronda L. Montgomery as she discusses her new book, When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History and America’s Black […]
Travels @ 12: Into the Rainforest: Tropical Botany in Australia and Singapore
Wister Center 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA, United StatesVenture “Down Under” with Swarthmore College Senior Josephine (Josie) Low to Queensland, Australia, where ancient Gondwanan plants like cycads and tree ferns tower above a vast diversity of tropical fruit […]
Walkovic and Schumacher Memorial Lecture: The Gravel Garden: Visionary, Drought-Defying, Naturalistic Designs
Science Center 101 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA, United StatesCo-sponsored with: Join Jeff Epping as he delves into his new book, co-authored with award-winning garden writer Teresa Woodard, exploring the art of gravel gardening. This naturalistic movement offers beauty, […]
Travels @ 12: Island in the Baltic Sea
Wister Center 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA, United StatesJoin Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Swarthmore College Emily Foster-Hanson as she shares a collection of photographs from a small island in the Swedish Archipelago where her family […]
Travels @ 12: Reaching New Heights in Peru’s Sacred Valley
Wister Center 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA, United StatesAs the 2025-2026 Scott Arboretum & Gardens Public Horticulture intern, Katrien had a limited budget and a lifelong dream to visit South America. All roads led to Cusco. Katrien packed […]
Travels @ 12: Chasing Waterfalls: Traveling Iceland’s Ring Road
Wister Center 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA, United StatesFollow along with Assistant Horticulture Supervisor Beck Armstrong and Senior Horticulturist Kait Lawrence on their ten day camping trip driving through the mountains, moss-covered lava fields, and glacier-carved fjords on […]
Travels @ 12: Famous Clematis, Clematarians, and Their Gardens
Science Center 101 500 College Ave., Swarthmore, PA, United StatesScott Arboretum & Gardens Executive Director Jeff Jabco will share his travel tales during the 2026 Internationals Clematis Society's visit to new and old gardens in southeastern England (Kent and […]