Garden Design
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
As Sam Keitch enjoys the last weeks of his curatorial internship, he was called upon to create the latest addition to the Arboretum’s ephemeral art using dead or dying trees. Many may remember the “blue tree” created by another curatorial intern, Todd Rounsiville, out of a Maackia chinensis suffocated by construction compaction. Marty Long carved the intriguing Bender oak sculpture out of a dying Quercus x benderi. Fashioned in the same vicinity as Sam’s masterpiece, artist Patrick Dougherty shaped the ephemeral art sculpture “Abracadabra” on a dying Tilia ameicana.
Sam Keitch, curatorial intern, painting the lower portion of the bur oak with the…
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Part of our planting efforts at the Scott Arboretum are designed to disguise or hide the utilities of campus buildings. We have used Cryptomeria japonica ‘Yoshino’ to hide the loading dock of Clothier Hall, Viburnum rhytidophyllum ‘Cree’ to camouflage the loading dock of Parrish Hall, and our boxwood trials to disguise the utilities of Beardsley Hall. Our spicebush collection throughout campus also veils various mechanical installations. Planted to serve as a screen for utilities behind Mertz Hall, Lindera reflexa reaches out along this border of the Gold Medal Garden. This Asiatic spicebush is a rare species with broad deciduous leaves.
The broad deciduous leaves…
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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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