arboretum
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Bombaa also complains about how ordinary Nairobians, often scrabbling to make a living, have to pay to enter some of their city’s most beautiful locations such as the arboretum or Karura forest.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
Peterson tasted his first pawpaw, from a wild growing tree, in his university's arboretum as a graduate student studying plant genetics.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
As curator of the online arboretum “Trees of LA,” Carrie celebrates the power of jacarandas on Instagram to make Angelenos aware of other remarkable trees that flower simultaneously, such as vibrant orange coral trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Azalea Way, a major path in the heart of the arboretum, guides walkers for three-quarters of a mile past cherry trees in addition to dogwoods, magnolias and glowing displays of azaleas.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
In order of least exciting to most exciting: the movies, the aquarium, the arboretum, Six Flags, Disneyland.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
They continue to flourish, as do specimens planted in the various arboreta of Kew’s Scottish equivalent, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2020
In August, the Newport Tree Society does a tour, and the arboreta are open to the public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2018
The tree now grows in arboreta in Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and D.C., increasing its chances of survival.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 30, 2018
Of the more specialized public arboreta in the United Kingdom the next to Kew are those in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh and the Glasnevin Garden in Dublin.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
Other arboreta are that of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, and the Arnold Arboretum, at Jamaica Plain, Boston.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
He found that plants at arboretums and public gardens inadvertently can seed wild areas with nonnative plants.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
Even during the grayest of winter months, there is plenty of green, and pops of color and beauty around the region in arboretums and botanical gardens.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
Considered “extinct in the wild,” the Franklinia tree — along with six other plants listed in the recent study — now exists only in cultivated spaces such as arboretums or botanical gardens.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2020
Aviaries and arboretums hold a collection of exotic birds and monkeys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
Pleasanter objects to the eye were the scarlet panicles of the Fouquiera splendens, then undescribed by botanists, and yet to become a favourite of the arboretums.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
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