arboretum

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When Daisy was a pup, Koerner began planting dozens of native plants near the Aleppo pines and fig trees, creating what he called their campground arboretum.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2025

Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

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

In order of least exciting to most exciting: the movies, the aquarium, the arboretum, Six Flags, Disneyland.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller