FREE Lecture At Arboretum

Free Lecture at the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College

Rekohu: Land of Misty Skies and the World’s Largest Forget-Me-Not

Date & Time:                   Tuesday, May 3, 7 pm     

Cost:                                 Free & open to the public

Location:                          Gillespie Room, Wister Center

Special Notes:                  A special thanks to the Delaware Center for Horticulture’s Rare Plant Auction and to Chanticleer for making this lecture possible.

The Chatham Islands, known as Rekohu to the Moriori, lie about 860 kilometres from New Zealand yet have distinctive flora with 42 species of endemic plants found nowhere else. It’s not surprising that two of these plants have found an important and enduring place in gardens around the temperate world – the magnificent but often difficult to cultivate Chatham Island forget-me-not, Myosotidium hortensia, and the voguish silvery-leaved Astelia chathamica. Learn more about this mysterious and enduring place from Gordon Collier, former owner of the exceptional New Zealand garden, Titoki Point.
Advance registration required and limited to 60. Please call 610-328-8025 to reserve your spot.

The Scott Arboretum is an educational garden of ideas and suggestions. Covering more than 300 acres of the Swarthmore College Campus and exhibiting over 4,000 different kinds of plants, the Arboretum displays some of the best trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals for use in the Delaware Valley. Established in 1929 as a living memorial to Arthur Hoyt Scott, the Arboretum is open to the public year-round free of charge, from dawn to dusk. Adam Levine in the November/December 2002 issue of Garden Design magazine described the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College as "the most beautiful campus in America." Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, please call the Arboretum Offices at 610-328-8025. Visit us on our website at http://www.scottarboretum.org/.