Virtual Lunchtime Tour: Early Winter Highlights
Virtual MeetingTake your lunch break virtually by exploring the gardens in the new year with Public Horticulture Intern Megan Rossman. Join us on this virtual tour on our YouTube page.
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Nature’s Narratives: Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees
Virtual MeetingNature’s Narratives is the Scott Arboretum’s monthly book discussion group. Join fellow garden enthusiasts and book lovers to discuss books about plants, nature, and the environment. Roger Deakin, who died in 2006, was one of England's most significant nature writers and this is his final...
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Highlights Tour: Natural Architecture and Winter Beauty
Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PAAppreciate 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, PATake 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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Travels @ 12: The Botanical (& Other) Wonders of São Miguel
Virtual MeetingThe 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...
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Travels @ 12: Visiting Gardens and Nurseries in Denmark. How Hygge (HOO-gah) Is That?
Virtual MeetingJoin 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...
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Travels @ 12: Traveling Through Tennessee
Virtual MeetingIn the before-times, Bob and Jan Goren and friends had a wonderful road trip through some beautiful places in Tennessee and its environs. The Great Smoky Mountains, Nashville, and Memphis are only some of the highlights of this spectacular state to enjoy during this presentation....
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Tu B’Shevat at Scott Arboretum
Wister Center - Gillespie Room 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PACome celebrate the Jewish “New Year of the Trees” at the Scott Arboretum. Join Rabbi Michael Ramberg and Scott Arboretum's Sue MacQueen in an exciting afternoon celebrating the rebirth of trees. The event will start with a campus walk, followed by a service led by...
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In-person Lunchtime Tour: Winter Blooms and Textures
Scott Arboretum Offices 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PATake 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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Nature’s Narratives: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Virtual MeetingNature’s Narratives is the Scott Arboretum’s monthly book discussion group. Join fellow garden enthusiasts and book lovers to discuss books about plants, nature, and the environment. Ed Young shows us, one animal at a time, the incredible diversity and sometimes unbelievable skills of the animal...
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