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

Seattle Parks and Recreation doesn’t have funds now to develop its 22-acre “North Entrance Project” where the ruins meet the arboretum.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

He lives there in a stone-walled house he calls Stargate Manor, a temple of expensive kitsch with its own arboretum, chapel — where George prays to Jesus, Buddha and Mother Nature — and waiting sarcophagus.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2024

The one time I did see him— when we all went to see the trains at the arboretum right before Christmas—I was so nervous I barely said a word.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison