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Caring for the campus landscape with an ecological mindset
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Caring for the campus landscape with an ecological mindset

The Ecological Landscape Stewardship Plan, developed in 2018, offers a framework for the Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services to design, maintain, and celebrate the beauty of the campus landscape with an emphasis on its role as a balanced ecological system.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Update of a local tree field guide offers ‘antidote for plant blindness’
A many-trunked tree just blooming in spring sprawls at Morris Arboretum

An icon at Morris Aboretum, a many-trunked katsura tree is among those specimens featured in “Philadelphia Trees.” It was planted in the early 1900s.

(Image: Paul W. Meyer)

Update of a local tree field guide offers ‘antidote for plant blindness’

A new edition of “Philadelphia Trees,” coauthored by former Morris Arboretum director Paul W. Meyer, Catriona Bull Briger, and Edward Sibley Barnard offers tips for identifying tree species and highlights some of the most notable trees in the region, including many on Penn’s campus.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Goodbye to an iconic tree
Large tree without leaves on a sunny day

The Quad elm cut an imposing figure, shown here in the spring of 2021, before leaf out. The space will be replanted with three native white oaks at a later date. (Image: Eric Sucar/University Communications)

Goodbye to an iconic tree

More than a century old, the American elm located in the heart of the Quadrangle residences has been ailing and is due to be removed the week of July 25. The site will be replanted at a later date with three native white oaks.

Katherine Unger Baillie

A ‘reawakening’ of interest in nature
Bill Cullina stands on bridge surrounded by ferns

Bill Cullina, director of the Morris Arboretum, poses inside the Arboretum's Victorian fernery in March 2022. 

A ‘reawakening’ of interest in nature

In a Q&A with Penn Today, Morris Arboretum Director Bill Cullina discusses lessons taken from the pandemic, adapting to climate change, and future research. 
Progress toward a more sustainable University
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Progress toward a more sustainable University

Two years into the Climate and Sustainability Action Plan 3.0, Penn is tracking significant steps toward its goals.

Katherine Unger Baillie

‘Ten Thousand Birds’ merges nature with classical music
Man with cello outside with child dancing

Alarm Will Sound will perform at the Morris Arboretum in September. (Image: Alan Pierson)

‘Ten Thousand Birds’ merges nature with classical music

Penn Live Arts kicks off its fall season with the local premiere of “Ten Thousand Birds” given by modern chamber music ensemble Alarm Will Sound in an outdoor performance at Morris Arboretum’s Bloomberg Farm

Kristina García

A fountain, its steps, and its garden—restored
Step Fountain and surrounding garden flowers

The Step Fountain at the Morris Arboretum, newly restored alongside a series of newly planted garden beds. (Image: Rachel Browne)

A fountain, its steps, and its garden—restored

In a photo essay, see the newly restored Step Fountain and surrounding garden beds at the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania.
The stories trees tell
cherry blossoms in front of fisher library Penn is the only Ivy League university with a campus that is an accredited arboretum. This recognition underscores a commitment to rigorously care for the University’s thousands of trees, representing hundreds of species.

The stories trees tell

In a photo essay, Penn Today highlights some of campus’s most iconic trees.

Katherine Unger Baillie