Community Engagement

I fell in love with Arboretum right away when I first visited it after I moved from CT to Boston around 5 years ago. I have a green "thumb", always enjoy the nature, love trees/plants more than anything else. The Arboretum provides me a new self-learning and much enjoyable environment with its well designed landscape and countless cultvated plants and tress. I used to visit the Arboretum with my daughter at most of the weekends. During the pandemic, I started to run through it in the early morning. It keeps me sane, clears and soothes my mind. For that, Thank you, Arboretum.

I have too many stories. I cannot choose just one. Maybe visiting Nikko in Japan a few weeks after reading an Arnoldia article about an early plant explorer's visit to Nikko and recognizing the trees in the landscape today from the photos taken a century ago. The blend of history, art, design, botany, ecology, geography, never fails to stimulate and delight.

I don't really have a story. I just enjoy the beauty of each season at the Arboretum.

Peter Ashton was Director, the Nieman fellows were visiting and after Peter's welcome at the Hunnewell Building, I led half of the group on a tour of the Living Collection. There was great interest in seeing an endangered species. Franklinia alatamaha was the example I presented them with.