After still not having power two weeks post Hurricane Sandy, Ilona Ontscherenki struck out with just a carryon for a month-long journey through four islands of the Japanese archipelago. She’ll share her impressions of both cities and countryside, cuisine and culture, and, of course, the...
Singapore is known as the City within a Garden and it’s quite apparent even when you walk through the airport! Get out into the rest of this tropical city-state and you’ll see that the foliage and flowers are just as important as the housing and...
After their beautiful tour in South Africa, Scott Arboretum members and volunteers Bob and Jan Goren continued on through nearby Namibia and found a landscape and biome that was just as beautiful and interesting, but quite different. Register here. Travels at Twelve is a series...
Linda Beutler, curator of the Rogerson Clematis Collection, is a firm believer that there is no substitute for seeing plants growing in the wild to truly understand how to make the most of them in a garden. This presentation follows Linda to Shika Shan in...
Legendary gardener, writer, and nurseryman Christopher Lloyd, Order of the British Empire and recipient of the Victoria Medal of Honour, would have celebrated his 100th birthday in March of 2021. His garden at Great Dixter in Northiam, East Sussex, England, continues on in the style...
Join Paul Meyer for an illustrated lecture on his botanical travels in northeast Kazakhstan. Few travelers from the western world have visited this extraordinarily beautiful region, noted for its rich steppe and alpine flora. In addition, he will share stories of the people, architecture and...
Last year, Elizabeth Ladwig, former Scott Arboretum Education Intern and Amos Frye, former Crum Woods Stewardship and Engagement fellow, moved all the way from the Sierra Nevada foothills to the charming New England island of Martha's Vineyard. In their positions working for The Polly Hill...
Join Director of the Scott Arboretum Claire Sawyers, for a trip around the world to some remarkable but little-known public gardens. This tour is sure to provide a sense of peace and relaxation as well as discovery. Claire has lived and worked in gardens in...
The largest of the Azores, a sub-tropical Portuguese archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, São Miguel is home to several named public gardens, but the botanical wonders aren’t at all contained within their boundaries. Huge hydrangeas line the roads, a unique pineapple is...
Join Jeff Jabco for a tour of gardens, nurseries and historical sites in Denmark as he recollects his trip with the International Clematis Society in July 2022. Even though Denmark is much farther north, the climate is much like we have in southeastern Pennsylvania (but...
