Highlights Tour: Natural Architecture and Winter Beauty

Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Appreciate the arboretum’s natural architecture and winter beauty with Horticulturist Josh Coceano. Arboretum Highlights Tours are for gardeners of all levels and feature plants and landscapes looking their best at that moment. Tours begin at the Scott Arboretum offices and are free and open to...

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Lunchtime Tour: The Winter Garden

Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Take your lunch break in the garden with our in-person lunchtime tours! Curator and Plant Recorder Mary Tipping will focus on the features we notice most in the winter garden: interesting bark, fruits, and promising buds. Arboretum Highlights Tours are for gardeners of all levels,...

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In-person Lunchtime Tour: Winter Blooms and Textures

Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Take your lunch break in the garden with our in-person lunchtime tours! Mackenzie Knight-Fochs, Education Programs Manager, will feature plants that bring their blooms to this cold time of year. We will also look at specimens whose textures engage the eye in the stark winter...

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In-person Highlights Tour: Mid-Winter Blooms, Buds, and Bark

Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Explore the winter blooms of witchhazels, snowdrops, and wintersweet and appreciate the non-flowering aspects of trees and shrubs.  Arboretum Highlights Tours are for gardeners of all levels and feature plants and landscapes looking their best at that moment. Tours begin at the Scott Arboretum offices...

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Virtual Lunchtime Tour: Winter Garden Wonderings

Virtual Meeting

Take your lunch break virtually and explore our gardens! Wonder our gardens in winter with Garden Supervisor Adam Glas. Join us on this virtual tour on our YouTube page. Adam Glas, Gardener Supervisor, joined the staff in 2012. Before that, he worked as Nursery Manager...

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Virtual Lunchtime Tour: Spring is Almost Here

Virtual Meeting

Take your lunch break virtually and explore features of the late winter gardens with Assistant Garden Supervisor Shem Ruszczyk. Join us on this virtual tour on our YouTube page. Shem Ruszczyk joined the staff in 2022 as Assistant Garden Supervisor. Prior to joining the Scott...

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Arboretum Highlights Tour: Marching Toward Spring

Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Explore the Arboretum as spring nears with Gardener Andrew DeGothseir. Arboretum Highlights Tours are for gardeners of all levels and feature plants and landscapes looking their best at that moment. Tours begin at the Scott Arboretum offices (Cunningham House)  and are free and open to...

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In-person Lunchtime Tour: March Blooms

Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Take your lunch break in the garden with our in-person lunchtime tours! Gardener Sandra Lopez Cortez will share the delights of March blooming plants such as daffodils, hellebores, and magnolias. Arboretum Highlights Tours are for gardeners of all levels, and feature plants and landscapes looking...

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In-person Lunchtime Tour: Early Spring Blooms

Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Take your lunch break in the garden with our in-person lunchtime tours! Early spring is the perfect time to see magnolias and cherries in bloom, in addition to the carpets of bulbs like daffodils and scilla. Garden Supervisor Chuck Hinkle will lead participants to delight...

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School’s Out: Spring Break -Trek Tuesday

Wister Center 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA

Join us on a guided hike in the Crum Woods on Trek Tuesday. Discover a beaver dam in the Crum Creek and wander through a wild meadow! Please wear appropriate footwear to walk on an unpaved, hilly surface for about 2 miles. This hike is...

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