What are you planting this spring?
As the snow melts and you begin your garden clean-up, I am sure you are reviewing your spring to do list. Plants to be divided or removed, as well as garden holes to be filled with new plants. As you prepare your plant wish list here are three shrubs to consider adding to your garden.
Chaenomeles speciosa 'Cameo' photo credit: R. Maurer
Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Cameo’ a selection of the flowering quince blooms very early in the spring with striking salmon pink flowers. In the Swarthmore area most of the flowering quinces come into flower around the end of March into early April. While…
FSC Wood
You may have noticed on the back of many catalogs and mailings from environmentally conscious companies, the FSC logo pictured above. The Scott Arboretum has been printing the Hybrid and many brochures and invitations with this logo since Fall 2006. The FSC logo is most recognizable on printed materials, but are you aware of what this logo represents?
Cover of the 2010 Spring Hybrid.
The FSC or Forest Stewardship Council logo indicates the publication has been printed on paper that has been harvested, milled, and printed in an environmentally responsible, socially beneficial, and economically viable way.
FSC oversees more than the production and printing…
Innovation
When designing a LEED-certified building there are many strategies such as storm water management techniques, recycling materials from construction, and maximizing the use of natural light to light the building, that will help accumulate points needed to receive LEED certification. In addition to these established and recognized practices, the certification process awards points for innovation. This ability to innovate new green designs and techniques is what is driving the continually evolving green industry.
Upon embarking on the design of the Wister Center, there was much discussion about the techniques and the associated costs for heating and cooling the building in a…
