Events

    2023 Nov 18

    Arboretum Tour for Blind Participants

    2:00pm to 3:30pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Join us for a tour of the Arboretum, designed for a blind or visually impaired audience. Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent, as you experience the Arboretum through smell, touch, sound, and detailed verbal descriptions.

    Accessibility: This tour will take place entirely on paved roads inside the Arboretum. The route is relatively flat and is accessible to wheelchairs and walkers. The tour will cover one mile or less, depending how quickly the group moves. Service animals are welcome.

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    2023 Oct 08

    Second Sundays

    12:00pm to 3:00pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Come by the Arnold Arboretum for our series of Second Sundays community events, celebrating Peters Hill and the neighborhoods surrounding it. Enjoy family activities, play lawn games, talk to a horticulturist or a scientist, sample local apples, take a tour, and more!

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    2023 Sep 12

    Tour: Spontaneous Plants at the Arboretum

    5:30pm to 6:30pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    The Arboretum is known for its towering trees, but if you look closer you will see asters and goldenrods springing up amongst the oaks and the maples. What is the role of these spontaneous plants at the Arboretum and how do staff encourage them through horticultural practices like no-mow areas? Join Horticulturist Ryan Devlin for a walking tour to get answers to these questions and more.

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    2023 Aug 13

    Second Sundays at the Arnold Arboretum

    12:00pm to 3:00pm

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    Peters Hill, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Bring your family and friends to Peters Hill for an afternoon of free tours, crafts, family activities, and more! Did we mention free ice cream and bubbles? Free activities open to all ages include:

    • Tours of Peters Hill offered in both English and Spanish

    • Plant information tents featuring wildflowers and plant defenses, fascinating Arboretum plant highlights, know-how of Arboretum experts, and a rich assortment of cuttings to view up close

    • Ice cream, art activities, lawn games, StoryWalks®, and more!...

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    2023 May 21

    Family Hike: Flower Power

    1:00pm to 2:30pm

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    Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Families need nature at all times of the year! Meet inside the main gate at the Visitor Center. We’ll look at buds and blooms and learn how bees find flowers. Go on a StoryWalk®, get a bee tattoo, and look at flowers under magnifiers. Free and open to all, most suitable for children ages four through ten.

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    2023 May 06

    Guided Tours at Arnold Arboretum

    Repeats every week on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday until Tue May 30 2023 except Sun May 14 2023, Tue May 16 2023, Sun May 28 2023, Mon May 29 2023.
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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Join us for a walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent. Tour is 90 minutes long.

    Tour times are at 10:30am or 1:00pm, depending on availability.

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    2023 Feb 25

    Grafting Demonstration: When Two Plants Become One

    1:00pm to 2:30pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Horticulturists use grafting to fuse together different plants, taking positive traits from each to create maximum disease resistance, drought tolerance, and more. Join Greenhouse Horticultural Technologist Chris Copeland on a walk around the landscape to find graft unions-- both those created by Arboretum staff and those that have occurred naturally. Then head inside to see Chris and his grafting tools in action as he dices and splices plants together using a variety of grafting techniques.

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    2023 Feb 06

    Workshop: Pruning Young Trees

    1:00pm to 3:00pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Young trees need careful pruning in their first few years of life to avoid dropping limbs later on. Arborists Ben Kirby and AJ Tataronis will show you how to prevent poor branch unions, avoid competing leads, and correct other defects common in nursery-grown trees. We will start indoors at Weld Hill Lecture Hall and then head outside to see some pruning in action.

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    2022 Dec 06

    Tree Equity in Boston: What It Is and How to Grow It

    6:30pm to 7:30pm

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    Weld Hill Research Building, Arnold Arboretum, 1300 Centre St., Boston

    The City of Boston recently released a new Urban Forest Plan that aims to grow the city's urban forest equitably. In this talk, David Meshoulam, Executive Director of Speak for the Trees, Boston, will introduce the idea of tree equity and discuss its critical importance in a rapidly changing climate. The organization has been examining how the distribution of trees has been shaped by race, politics, and history. and works to grow the city's forest as a tool to build resilient communities.

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    2022 Nov 16

    Science at the Arboretum: Research Labs Tour

    3:00pm to 3:45pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Join Dr. Faye Rosin, Director of Research Facilitation, for a tour of the Weld Hill Research Labs. The Weld Hill Research and Education Building is a state-of-the-art science laboratory and teaching facility that opened in 2011. On any given day researchers, faculty, and students use its laboratories, greenhouses, growth chambers, and classrooms to further the study of plant life on Earth.

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    2022 Nov 14

    Arboretum Mushroom Walk

    11:30am to 12:30pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Hundreds of mushrooms hide beneath the Arboretum's canopies, silently blossoming into unique forms then withering away again just as quickly. Join local mushroom enthusiast Maria Pinto to search for these fascinating organisms on the Arboretum grounds, both edible and poisonous alike. Along the way you will learn what mushrooms to look for in different habitats and seasons, how they move through ecosystems, and how the Arboretum's unique collections affect what mushrooms you might find here.

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    2022 Oct 19

    Plant Life Book Talk

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

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    Arnold Arboretum, Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston

    Rosetta S. Elkin reveals that planting a tree can either be one of the ultimate offerings to thriving on this planet, or one of the most extreme perversions of human agency over it. Plant Life exposes the relationship between human and plant life, revealing that afforestation is not an ecological act: rather, it is deliberately political and distressingly social.

    Rosetta S. Elkin is associate professor and academic director of landscape architecture at Pratt Institute, principal of Practice Landscape, and research associate at the Harvard Arnold Arboretum. She is author of...

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    2022 May 16

    Director’s Series | Life: The Arnold Arboretum as an Institution of Public Health

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

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    Arnold Arboretum—Online

    The Arnold Arboretum's sesquicentennial Director's Series traces the Arnold’s significance in the landscape architecture movement, value for the people of Boston, and leadership in creating global connections between plants and people.

    Panelists include:

    • Dr. Michelle Kondo, Research Social Scientist, UDSA-Forest Service

    • Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space, City of Boston

    • Laurence Cotton, Consulting Producer, “Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing...

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    2022 Mar 29

    Celebrating a Sesquicentennial: The Founding of the Arnold Arboretum

    2:00pm to 3:00pm

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    Livestreamed or at Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston

    The Arnold Arboretum was founded on Friday, March 29, 1872. Exactly 150 years later, we invite you to join Lisa Pearson, Head of the Arboretum Library and Archives, for a special sesquicentennial lecture! Pearson will discuss the earliest benefactors of the Arboretum, the events surrounding the founding of the institution, and the busy first two decades during which the infrastructure and living collections were installed on the grounds.

    This event will also be livestreamed to YouTube. To sign up for the virtual livestream instead,...

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    2022 Feb 01

    Apply to Volunteer at the Arnold Arboretum

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    Location: 

    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Make a difference as an Arnold Arboretum Field Study Guide! Training for the spring season of school programs at the Arboretum begins March 29. We are looking for outgoing and mature adults who can commit to two years of volunteering. You do not need to know about plants, but experience working with children is preferred. If you are interested, please complete an application by March 11 for an interview.

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    2019 Jan 27

    Conifers in Winter

    1:30pm to 3:00pm

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    Bussey Street Gate, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
    Docent Robbie Apfel leads this winter walk in an exploration of the Arboretum's conifer collection. Beginning from the Bussey Street Gate, you will be introduced to the Arboretum's grand gymnosperms, learn the botany of conifers, and hear about Hemlock Hill's evolving ecosystem. This tour will also introduce you to native and non-native conifers in the winter landscape.
     
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    2019 Jan 27

    Monthly Bird Walks Through the Winter

    9:00am to 10:30am

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    Arborway Gate, Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
    Join Arnold Arboretum's Brendan Keegan for an easy walk looking for winter birds. In January, Brendan will discuss how species alter their behaviors, diets, and/or bodies to survive the colder temperatures. For his February walk that meets at the Bussey Street Gate, you will listen for, and discuss bird calls, and talk about owl mating season. The March walk on St. Patrick's Day will be a talk about breeding behaviors, the competitive reality of bird song, and include a check on Chickadee nesting tubes for signs of activity.

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