Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Spring is time for planting and our volunteers and interns have been busy installing a new planting along College Avenue. As a result of the completion of the Wister Education Center and Greenhouse, the garden bed along College Ave. needed a face-lift.
Originally this bed served as a screen for the parking lot and the dilapidated original Wister Greenhouse. The intent of the new planting is to create a more dramatic offset to the new Wister Center. A series of shrubs has been planted to reach about five feet high and screen the cars in the parking lot but allow a…
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
As the College prepares for Alumni Weekend, the Scott Arboretum is preparing to celebrate the installation of new garden, Chica Maynard ’48 garden. In the tradition of Swarthmore alumni, the Class of 1948 has established the Chica Maynard ’48 Cherry Border Fund in honor of, you guessed it, Carolien ‘Chica’ Powers Maynard, class of 1948.
Carolien Powers '22 "whisper bench". photo credit: R. Robert
This fund will allow for the maintenance, upkeep, and enhancements of the Cherry Border and the “whisper bench”. The bench was originally a gift from Chica Maynard’s grandmother in honor of Chica Maynard’s mother, Carolien Powers ’22. In…
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