Science IRL explains the ginormous Osage oranges (which are not actual oranges) that litter the ground at the Arboretum, waiting, like Puff for little Jackie Paper, for woolly mammoths that will never come again: Read more.
New Flora Way sign at intersection with Walter Street.
Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents gathered with city and Harvard officials yesterday to dedicate the new name of the street that bisects the Arnold Arboretum, in honor of an enslaved woman who lived nearby. Read more.
The Boston Public Improvement Commission today approved renaming the road that bisects the Arnold Arboretum as Flora Way, to honor a Black woman enslaved by a nearby landowner in the 1700s, the Rename Bussey Street group of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents reports. Read more.
Map showing proposed changes - blob at far left is now parking, will become a stand of trees, walkways
The Arnold Arboretum has filed plans to upgrade its Walter Street gate in Roslindale in part by replacing eight parking spaces with trees and improving the pedestrian paths along Bussey Brook near the entrance. Read more.
The Asiatic sweetleaf is in full, hmm, not bloom, but full berry, perhaps?
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department, which owns the Arnold Arboretum, and Harvard University, which has 858 years left on its lease of the land, have petitioned the city Public Improvement Commission to change the name of Bussey Street to Flora Way. Read more.
Ryan spotted two huge deer in the Arnold Arboretum yesterday, one less camera shy than the other.
Mary Ellen reports admission was one buck at Millennium Park this morning: Read more.
Mark Smith shares the morning sun on pine trees and grass on the Peter's Hill side of the Arnold Arboretum.
Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum has one of those giant corpse plants and that it could bloom by month's end. But only Arbs members will get a chance to see and smell it.
The rhododendrons at the Arnold Arboretum were in full bloom yesterday, in all sorts of colors.
The Arnold Arboretum is blooming up a storm this week. Even a number of the lilac bushes have exploded in flowers. Read more.
Mark Smith reports it's peak cherry-blossom time at the Arnold Arboretum.
"Won't last long - don't miss it!" he advises.
Some forsythia in full bloom at that Arnold Arboretum, just up the hill from the Walter Street entrance.
WFXT reports the new BTD regulations along Walter and Bussey streets, aimed at making spaces available for Arnold Arboretum visitors, are causing problems for workers at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and Faulkner Hospital.
Mark Smith gets ready for a Bergman film by strolling through the Arnold Arboretum.
Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum lost some 40 "accessioned" trees, including a dozen hemlocks snapped in half - by a storm in December that brought both rain to already saturated soil and high winds.
Mark Smith had company when he got to the top of Peters Hill in the Arboretum this morning.
Mark Smith surveyed some of the fruit now coloring the plants at the Arnold Arboretum.
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