All Stories

Rejuvenating and Reshaping the Larz Anderson ‘Chabo-hibas’

Bonsai

Benjamin Bussey, Woodland Hill, and the Creation of the Arnold Arboretum

History

Against All Odds: Growing Franklinia in Boston

Plant Profiles

Chionanthus retusus: The Chinese Fringetree

Plant Profiles

Sun-Loving Shrubs and Vines for the Leventritt Garden

Landscape

Ordering and Terracing in the Leventritt Garden

Landscape

Shrubs and Vines at the Arnold Arboretum: A History

Landscape

Anachronistic Fruits and the Ghosts Who Haunt Them

Evolution

The Knees of the Bald Cypress: A new theory of their function.

History

“As remarkable as discovering a living dinosaur”: Redwoods in China

Plant Exploration

Another “Living Fossil” Comes to the Arnold Arboretum

Plant Exploration

Reminiscences of Collecting the Type Specimens of Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Plant Exploration

How Metasequoia, the “Living Fossil,” Was Discovered in China

Plant Exploration

Metasequoia glyptostroboides: Fifty Years of Growth in North America

Horticulture

The Tree as Celebrity

History

How to Fund Botanical Expeditions

Plant Exploration

Metasequoia and the Living Fossils

History

Notes on Chinese-American Botanical Collaboration

Plant Exploration

The California Academy-Lingnan Dawn-Redwood Expedition

Plant Exploration

An Ecological Reconnaissance in the Native Home of Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Ecology