ETSU's arboretum creates beautiful, informative campus for students
Joseph Hutchins
Issue date: 9/18/08 Section: News
There are many notable sites that can be enjoyed on campus such as Levy's favorite, the Buckeye collection, and McDowell's, the windmill palm which is housed in a protected area for sub-tropical trees. Also the dwarf conifer garden and the recently planted tree beds named "Trees for Tomorrow," which line State of Franklin Rd. from the mini-dome to the Lane Street entrance of the school.
The Arboretum is self funded, mainly through grants requested by Levy and McDowell.
These two also volunteer all the time that they put and have put into the Arboretum. Since August 2001 the Arboretum has received seven grants totaling $93,000, as well as more than $5,000 in contributions and gifts mainly from local garden clubs.
Current projects include an analysis of the leaf and seed morphology of members of the genus Tsuga, or hemlocks, and an analysis of the spread of hemlock wooly adelgid in natural populations of Carolina hemlock.
The Arboretum has newly printed brochures, including the three Spanish-translated ones that are distributed across campus including at the Sherrod Library, Brown Hall, Burgin-Dossett information desk, and at the Arboretum kiosk located between the Culp Center and Sherrod Library.
The Arboretum is self funded, mainly through grants requested by Levy and McDowell.
These two also volunteer all the time that they put and have put into the Arboretum. Since August 2001 the Arboretum has received seven grants totaling $93,000, as well as more than $5,000 in contributions and gifts mainly from local garden clubs.
Current projects include an analysis of the leaf and seed morphology of members of the genus Tsuga, or hemlocks, and an analysis of the spread of hemlock wooly adelgid in natural populations of Carolina hemlock.
The Arboretum has newly printed brochures, including the three Spanish-translated ones that are distributed across campus including at the Sherrod Library, Brown Hall, Burgin-Dossett information desk, and at the Arboretum kiosk located between the Culp Center and Sherrod Library.
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