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In 2017 the City of Philadelphia established it’s Rebuild initiative, aimed at revitalizing and enhancing community infrastructure like community centers, libraries, and parks in underserved areas around the city. In recent months, the Morris Urban Forestry team has conducted tree assessments for several parks that are designated for improvements through Rebuild.

Ulmus glabra 'Horizontalis' (Tabletop Scotch elm) is a treasure at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens—one of very few arboreta in the US to cultivate one—and was planted on the Morris Estate sometime before 1909.

On islands like Madagascar, a particularly high proportion of plants have been introduced via long-distance dispersal, and recent research demonstrates that Madagascar has also been a prominent source for dispersal of plants to other places, including the tropical plant group Dombeyoideae.

Morris Arboretum & Gardens’ 16th Annual Scarecrow Contest opened this past weekend. Themed “the 1990s” in celebration of our 90th anniversary, it's a fun (and sometimes a bit scary) time-machine trip back to the late 20th century that the whole family will enjoy.  

This August, the Morris Arboretum & Gardens Urban Forestry Fellow attended the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) annual conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Find out more about our Treetop Yoga courses, where participants find themselves fifty feet up among the tree canopy on Out on a Limb, one of the Morris’s most popular attractions.

Read about Acer griseum (paperbark maple), an all-season star of the Morris Arboretum & Gardens.

In 1935, Dr. Rodney H. True, Director of the Morris from 1933–1938, gave an address live on the radio for the Council for Preservation of Natural Beauty in Pennsylvania concerning the conservation of trees in Philadelphia. Read the address, along with an update on today's conservation efforts by Jason Lubar, Associate Director of Urban Forestry.