arboretum
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Following the ceremony, people at the arboretum were invited to lay their own wreaths at the memorial.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Thousands of trees were planted on the property, which is also surrounded by a large arboretum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Peterson tasted his first pawpaw, from a wild growing tree, in his university's arboretum as a graduate student studying plant genetics.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
Seattle Parks and Recreation doesn’t have funds now to develop its 22-acre “North Entrance Project” where the ruins meet the arboretum.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
But then I would remember when we were little, hanging out in the lab or the arboretum while our mothers worked.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
They continue to flourish, as do specimens planted in the various arboreta of Kew’s Scottish equivalent, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2020
In August, the Newport Tree Society does a tour, and the arboreta are open to the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2018
The tree now grows in arboreta in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and D.C., increasing its chances of survival.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 30, 2018
Of the more specialized public arboreta in the United Kingdom the next to Kew are those in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh and the Glasnevin Garden in Dublin.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
Loudon, in his book upon arboreta and fruit trees.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
He found that plants at arboretums and public gardens inadvertently can seed wild areas with nonnative plants.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
Even during the grayest of winter months, there is plenty of green, and pops of color and beauty around the region in arboretums and botanical gardens.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
Considered “extinct in the wild,” the Franklinia tree — along with six other plants listed in the recent study — now exists only in cultivated spaces such as arboretums or botanical gardens.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
Aviaries and arboretums hold a collection of exotic birds and monkeys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
Parks, belts, arboretums, and clipped hedge-rows, however useful as contributing to pleasure, convenience, or science, are not the most interesting features of wood-scenery.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various
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