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Plant Lists to Assist
We are bringing in 230 perennials, trees and shrubs for this sale and we haven’t even started on the vegetables, annuals and the lesser known plants that we call [...]
Glorious Groundcover
‘Groundcover’ plants, or plants that grow low to the ground (think about 1 ½ feet tall), are the professional, low maintenance way of not only tying in design goals, [...]
Sharing our Legacy – Through Plant Sale
For many people in the Brandywine region, May is much anticipated, for it is the beginning of nursery hopping season and many hours of walking up and down aisles in [...]
The Remarkable Puttyroot — Thriving at Tyler
“To the right are lofty woods, and beneath them the leaf-mold of a thousand years. On this steep shaded slope, on this rich earth, is the showy orchis by the [...]
Legacy Plants – The Painter Collection
One hundred and fifty years after Thomas and Margaret Minshall purchased the land that would become Tyler Arboretum, their sixth generation descendants, Jacob and Minshall Painter, began to plant trees. [...]
What is that Noise?
One of the first signs of spring is not something we generally see - the aptly named spring peeper. About the size of a paper clip, these tiny frogs are usually [...]
A ‘Sticky Future’ for Maple Trees
There are more and more headlines each year that confirm the data – it’s a sticky future for maple syrup. Researchers from universities and federal agencies all report that changes [...]
The View From the Top – The People and Places behind Tyler’s Natural Areas
It’s an amazing experience when you ask similar questions of four people and you get four nearly identical sets of answers. If these people knew the questions in advance, [...]