Boston Flora

Tag: Tree Mobs

  • Arnold Arboretum Tree Mobs Go Virtual

    Tree Mobs have gone virtual! Join the Arnold Arboretum online for interactions with scientists or other specialists at the Arboretum via Zoom, and enjoy diverse perspectives on our plants and landscape. Visit http:/arboretum.harvard.edu and create a profile to receive Tree Mob notifications, and look for a new program nearly every week. Also view past Mobs in their entirety on our YouTube Channel, like a discussion of colorful spruce cones with Director William (Ned) Friedman, seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujqW9j-aT60

  • Wednesday, April 16, 6:00 pm – The Arnold Arboretum: An Urban Gem of Landscape and Diversity

    William Friedman, PhD, Arnold Arboretum and Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, will speak on America’s oldest public arboretum and discuss new initiatives in collections development, botanical and horticultural research, and programs for the public. From mapping an urban wild with drones to climate change studies to Tree Mobs and sophisticated GIS-based collections management, come learn what old trees and new thinking are up to in the heart of Boston and the Emerald Necklace. Wednesday, April 16, 6:00pm refreshments; 6:30pm lecture at the Hunnewell Building of the Arnold Arboretum, the Arborway, Boston.Free for Arnold Arboretum and BSLA members, $10 nonmembers. Offered with the Boston Society of Landscape Architects.  Register on line at www.my.arboretum.harvard.edu.

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