Daily Archives: April 16, 2012

Saturday, April 28, 9:30 am – 12:00 noon – Arnold Arboretum 2012 Members’ Tour Day

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Enjoy the brilliance of spring and reconnect with the landscape on Arnold Arboretum’s Members’ Tour Day. Members are invited to come for refreshments and staff-led tours in the living collection on Saturday, April 28 beginning at 9:30am. This year, reserve space for Members’ Tour Day via an online registration system, or contact the membership office. Please respond by Friday, April 20. The staff hopes you’ll join us for a morning of fun, seasonal highlights, and the fellowship of our staff and members on April 28!  Fraxinus lanuginosa, in bloom at the Arboretum in April, pictured below.

One Seed at a Time

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This is story of the Polly Hill Arboretum internship program. In 1958 at age 50, Polly Hill began her arboretum by sowing a seed on her family’s summer property, then known as Barnard’s Inn Farm. She was always looking for plants that would grow out of latitude and thrive on Martha’s Vineyard and traveled extensively collected seeds from all over the world. In the 1990’s her beautiful private gardens became a public arboretum and shortly afterwards with her help and the efforts of David Smith and Sam Feldman the Internship Program was formed. Many young people have gone through either the summer or 9 month program and continued on with great success in the horticulture world. This is their story and the story of their remarkable mentor.  Watch a short, ten minute video by Marnie Stanton on the internship program, entitled One Seed at a Time, by clicking this link: http://vimeo.com/39297752.  Video funded by the Edey Foundation.