Level III

Situated in the heart of the Eastern Shore, The Salisbury University Arboretum holds some of the most horticulturally diverse grounds in the local region.  A vision for the campus’ landscape to cultivate educational and aesthetic significance began in the 1920’s when the institution was founded, celebrated its first Arbor Day, and planted Holloway Hall’s notable Linden trees.  Since then, the arboretum has become the area’s unique and ideal setting for the scientific study and public display of carefully selected woody and herbaceous plants to include native, rare, and unusual specimens and collections. 

The living plant collections include over 2700 accessioned and mapped trees and an extensive inventory of individual woody plants, which are showcased in carefully designed garden spaces, themed gardens and landscape settings throughout the 200 acre campus.  The arboretum features collections of maples, redbuds, crape myrtles, cypresses, magnolias, deciduous azaleas, witch hazels, rhododendrons, vines, hellebores, as well as Maryland State Champion Trees, and native and pollinator plants. 

The University’s educational programs, tours, and community events assist with highlighting and interpreting the arboretum’s dedication to the biological and geographical sciences and environmental sustainability.

Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is a nonprofit, non-sectarian cemetery and ArbNet Level III Accredited Arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as the first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi River, Bellefontaine contains 314 acres of land and more than 87,000 graves. At the current rate of burial, we will remain an active cemetery for another 200 years. Bellefontaine is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its historically significant architecture, such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and significant landscapes.

The mission of the Arboretum at Bellefontaine Cemetery is to support and enhance the cemetery as a place of perpetual commemoration and as a garden landscape of beauty, inspiration, and historical significance. Bellefontaine is an accessible and diverse horticultural collection and is an important natural sanctuary and habitat for wildlife in the urban environment. Today, the 314-acre grounds are home to more than 9000 inventoried woody trees and shrubs representing well over 560 unique plant taxa (including species, selections, and hybrids).

Coker Arboretum is at the center of one of the most beautiful university campuses in the nation: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Managed by the North Carolina Botanical Garden, it is one of the Garden's oldest tracts.

In 1903, Dr. William Chambers Coker, the University's first Professor of Botany and the first chair of the University Buildings and Grounds Committee, began developing a five-acre boggy pasture into an outdoor University classroom for the study of trees, shrubs, and vines native to North Carolina. Beginning in the 1920s and continuing through the 1940s, Dr. Coker added many East Asian trees and shrubs. These species, closely related counterparts to many North Carolina native plants, enhanced the beauty and educational value of the Arboretum. Today the collection consists of a wide variety of plantings including flowering trees and shrubs as well as bulb and perennial displays. The Arboretum has something unique to offer during every season of the year.

Founded in 1910, Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment. Situated on 52 acres in the heart of Brooklyn, the Garden is home to over 14,000 kinds of plants and hosts more than 800,000 visitors annually.

Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum is one of the true gems of the Greater Cincinnati region. The forward-thinking founders established the groundwork for a landscape that continues to flourish, providing the community with not only a serene final resting place for their loved ones, but also an exceptional outdoor educational facility. The founding fathers of the cemetery and arboretum, who were members of the Cincinnati Horticulture Society, possessed a strong desire to develop a landscape in the Romantic English style, with rolling hills and picturesque views. Robert Buchanan, the driving force behind the Horticulture Society and the creation of the rural cemetery, insisted that the new cemetery be built on a site with "gentle elevation" and "interspersed with ravines that afforded a charming variety". The proper site was purchased (750 acres), and Spring Grove Cemetery was established in 1845.

The Scott Arboretum, situated on the 300 plus-acre campus of Swarthmore College exhibits over 4,000 kinds of ornamental plants, and displays the best trees, shrubs, vines and perennials for the region. Established in 1929 as a living memorial to Arthur Hoyt Scott through a gift from Mr. Scott's family, the mission of the Arboretum is to display plants suited for home gardens and to educate the public.

The Arboretum's gardens and areas of special interest include the  Scott Entrance Garden, The Terry Shane Teaching Garden, Biostream, Isabelle Cosby Courtyard, Dean Bond Rose Garden, Harry Wood Courtyard Garden, Metasequoia Allee, Nason Garden emphasizing plant textures, Pollinator's Garden, Scott Outdoor Amphitheater, and  the Cherry Border.  The Arboretum's prominent collections include flowering cherries, conifers, corylopsis, hollies, hydrangeas, lilacs, maples, magnolias, oaks, rhododendrons, roses, tree peonies, vines and witch-hazels. The Arboretum also features a collection of mature trees, including several state champions and notable specimens, such as a grove of paper-bark maples and mature cedars and an avenue of swamp white oaks.

At Hoyt Arboretum, every tree has a story to tell. Founded in 1928 to conserve endangered species and educate the community, Hoyt Arboretum encompasses 187 ridge-top acres, accessible by 12 miles of hiking trails. A place of beauty and serenity in all seasons, Hoyt Arboretum is easily accessible from anywhere in the Portland metropolitan area by car, bus or the MAX light rail.

More than 6,000 specimens from around the world grow here, including more than 2,068 species. Hoyt Arboretum is a living laboratory where anyone can enjoy trees and plants that are both familiar and unexpected.

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Haverford College was founded in 1833 by a group of Quakers who promptly hired the English gardener William Carvill to design a landscape and transform the tilled fields and farm pastures into a "Great Lawn" around the school building. Drawing from the informal English landscape tradition, Carvill created open views with groups of trees in circles and allées, and a serpentine walk of shrubbery as well as garden plots for students to experience nature firsthand. Carvill's existing landscape drawing confirms Haverford as the oldest planned college landscape in the country, according to historian Thomas Schlereth of Notre Dame University.
Today, the 216-acre college is surrounded by the older established suburbs of Philadelphia, but the arboretum's commitment to campus beautification and preservation, as well as education, continues. It is open every day of the year to the public without charge. The center campus of labeled trees is surrounded by woods, a 2.2-mile nature trail, duck pond, and an 18-acre Pinetum started in 1929 by college faculty and alums concerned with preserving Haverford's natural setting and historic trees.