Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 10AM
FLCC ARBORETUM and
LINCOLN WOODS WALK
It was a chilly and windy morning when six people met Bruce Gilman at the FLCC Arboretum on Saturday morning before the forecasted ice storm was to arrive. Bruce explained that the FLCC Arboretum was initiated in 1976 as an education resource to benefit the horticulture program. Bruce mowed, gathered tree and seed donations, and planted to establish the arboretum. There are over 100 species currently growing at the arboretum planted since 1977.
Here's a sample of what we saw:
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| Pin Oak |
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| Near alley of "street trees" |
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| Sweet Gum |
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| Branches of sweet gum |
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| Sweet gum seed pod at base of sweet gum tree |
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| beech tree |
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| invasive black locust tree |
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| Cucumber Magnolia tree |
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| Cucumber Magnolia seed pod |
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| Tulip and Hackberry trees |
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| Ginko tree |
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| Thomas resting on Maya Hobday's bench |
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| Dawn Redwood in early spring |
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| Bald Cyprus |
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| European and Japanese Larch trees |
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| Larch |
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| Larch tree branches |
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| Hawk |
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| Serenity Gardens |
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| White fir/concolor - orange scented |
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| Volunteer peach tree from someone's discarded lunch |
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| Weeping Norway...Thomas still fits |
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| Perhaps you'll try it on for size? |
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| hybrid poplar |
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| west of arboretum used to be a gravel pit |
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| Colts foot - a hardy early spring bloom |
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| Skunk Cabbage blossoms |
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| White Avens (gets about 2' high - likes shade) |
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| cat tails |
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| yellow trout-lily / adder's tongue leaf surrounded by dried leaves |
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| Kidney leaf buttercup leaves near moss |
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| spice bush buds |
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| more skunk cabbage |
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| Marsh Marigold leaves |
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| iris |
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| yellow water buttercup |
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| Watch here for Mertensia blooms early May |
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| native swamp dock |
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| INVASIVE GARLIC MUSTARD - Feel free to REMOVE!!! |
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| young bedstraw leaves |
FLCC ARBORETUM and LINCOLN WOODS WALK 
Join us for a
walk through the FLCC Arboretum (just west of Marvin Sands Drive) with Berna
Ticonchuk or Bruce Gilman as we learn about the efforts to inventory the trees
of FLCC. Afterwards we can stroll through the wetland trails of Lincoln Hill to
spot early spring blooms including skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus). The ground may be wet but you can get a good
look at the colorful blooms from the boardwalks. You can also appreciate the interpretive
posts along the trails.
