Out and About in the Arboretum

As you are visiting the Medford Leas Fitness Center, dining rooms, Gathering Room, and /or Holly Room, you will enjoy the view of the festively decorated Gazebo. Greenery, lights, bird feeders and a wonderful Williamsburg display of pineapple and fruit. The pineapple, native to South America, was imported to the Caribbean likely in the 16th century. When the pineapple was

As you are out and about this week, you may appreciate walking through Court 13 on the Medford Campus to enjoy the group of three Foster Holly, Ilex x Attenuata ‘Fosteri’ trees. This group makes a stunning show with its glossy dark green leaves and the deep red berries that fill the branches. This holly is a female cultivar, but

While we all love the crabapple trees in the spring with their abundant showy blossoms, they also give us a lot to enjoy during this fall season. There are a number of crabapple trees on the two Campuses, but if you take a look at the front of Rushmore Building 62, you are sure to enjoy the masses of small,

Nandina domestica, otherwise known as Heavenly Bamboo, is classified as an evergreen shrub, but it will lose its foliage and canes may die back to the ground in extreme cold. Until that may happen, you can enjoy this shrub in various locations within the Arboretum. You can find them in a number of Courtyard Gardens, including number 12. If you

Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, is one of just a few deciduous conifers. On the Medford Campus, you can view them at the corner of Medford Leas Way and Bridlington Way, or at the entrance to the Lois Forrest Nature Center; on the Lumberton Campus, you are greeted by these trees on the left as you enter the community. These trees

We are fortunate to have a number of trees within the Arboretum that have year-round interest. The Japanese Cutleaf Maple, Acer palmatum ‘Coral Bark,’ is showing off its brilliantly colored golden yellow leaves now, near the intersection of Estaugh and Medford Leas Way on the Medford Campus, As we move through the winter towards spring, the brilliant coral bark on the young