By adamg - Mon, 11/18/2024 - 10:30am

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
By adamg - Sun, 10/27/2024 - 11:58am

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.

By adamg - Thu, 10/10/2024 - 12:59pm

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 of proposed Walter Street gate improvement
By adamg - Tue, 09/03/2024 - 9:35am

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.

Asiatic sweetleaf berries
By adamg - Sun, 09/01/2024 - 3:40pm

The Asiatic sweetleaf is in full, hmm, not bloom, but full berry, perhaps?

By adamg - Fri, 08/16/2024 - 1:48pm

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.

Buck in Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Sun, 07/07/2024 - 11:40am

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.

Pine trees and grass in the sun at the Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Wed, 07/03/2024 - 9:51am

Mark Smith shares the morning sun on pine trees and grass on the Peter's Hill side of the Arnold Arboretum.

By adamg - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 10:41am

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.

Rhododendron in bloom at the Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Tue, 06/04/2024 - 10:26am

The rhododendrons at the Arnold Arboretum were in full bloom yesterday, in all sorts of colors.

Bleeding hearts
By adamg - Tue, 04/30/2024 - 11:18pm

The Arnold Arboretum is blooming up a storm this week. Even a number of the lilac bushes have exploded in flowers. Read more.

Blossoming trees at the Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 11:13am

Mark Smith reports it's peak cherry-blossom time at the Arnold Arboretum.

"Won't last long - don't miss it!" he advises.

Blooming forsythia at the Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Mon, 04/01/2024 - 5:19pm

Some forsythia in full bloom at that Arnold Arboretum, just up the hill from the Walter Street entrance.

By adamg - Mon, 03/18/2024 - 11:34am

Jamaica Plain News reports on efforts to rename Bussey Street, which splits the two main halves of the Arnold Arboretum and which is named for the man whose estate eventually became the arboretum, which he assembled in part on profits from businesses that profited from slavery. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 9:37am

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.

Birch trees at the Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 2:49pm

Mark Smith gets ready for a Bergman film by strolling through the Arnold Arboretum.

By adamg - Tue, 02/13/2024 - 9:51am

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.

Snowmen at the top of Peters Hill in the Arboretum with downtown Boston and the Back Bay behind them
By adamg - Mon, 01/08/2024 - 9:23am

Mark Smith had company when he got to the top of Peters Hill in the Arboretum this morning.

Trees reflected in a still pond at the Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Sat, 11/25/2023 - 10:25am

Mark Smith walked around the Arnold Arboretum yesterday.

Fall berries at the Arnold Arboretum
By adamg - Thu, 11/02/2023 - 1:22pm

Mark Smith surveyed some of the fruit now coloring the plants at the Arnold Arboretum.