Hoyt Arboretum Friends hosted our 37th annual Arborists in the Arboretum event last month where 125 arborists from more than 35 companies in the Portland area volunteered to care for our global tree collection. Every year, Curator Martin Nicholson creates a work list with priority jobs that only professional arborists can complete, including removing deadwood, … Read more
Hoyt Arboretum is home to over 6,000 trees—with more than 2,300 species from over 170 families. Tree species are selected for the collection to promote conservation, education, and research, and sometimes a single species meets all 3 of those priorities. Meet Liriodendron tulipifera! AKA the tulip tree! Tulip trees are a new favorite of Hoyt … Read more
Waking up at 5:30 am to go on an adventure is something that a fair few have done, but leaving Portland, Oregon to take a road trip south to Happy Camp, California with the intent of planting trees and exploring various roadside and mountain slope plants is probably not as common. On April 17th, 2024, … Read more
It’s a busy Saturday morning in February of 2023 at Hoyt Arboretum, and a group gathers under the Stevens Pavilion for a special event. Today, we are lucky to have Eliza from the Oregon Maple Project come out to teach us how to make maple syrup from our native bigleaf maple. Eliza and the Oregon Maple … Read more
Keeping the Arboretum’s trails clear is skilled work and valuable experience for everyone, but especially for the youth in our communities that will be our next generation of leaders. We seek opportunities to engage the next generation at Hoyt Arboretum, so our partnership with Northwest Youth Corps and Girls Inc in 2023 was a great … Read more