GFE Stumpes: Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens (8/11/2025)

Monday, August 11, 2025

Now we are heading home, with a stop at Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens in Stamford, CT.

Red Oak Trunk transformed in 2024 by
Adam Mulholland of Sickline Carving

Sensory Garden for seeing, touching, smelling,
tasting, and hearing

Herb Garden with categories of aromatic, culinary,
medicinal, and economic (dyes and fiber)

Witches' Broom Garden includes this
Pinus strobus 'Witches Broom'/Eastern White
Pine that was propagated from a mutant
growth resulting in a differently formed tree

Charter Oak (Quercus alba/White Oak) is
a descendant of Connecticut's original tree
that legend states was where the charter
from King Charles II was hidden when its
return was demanded by his successor

Homestead of the Bartlett family was purchased in 1913
by Dr Francis A Bartlett who cared for trees on estates
in the New York City area, and planted specimens here

Across the street is the Conifer Garden

Two types and colors of Hydrangea

Mandevilla sp/Rock Trumpet and the
seed pods of the Iris domestica/Leopard Lily

Cottage Garden

Sun-loving Native Plant Garden

9/11 Memorial Arch created from Pyrus calleryana/
Bradford Pears propagated from the "Survivor Tree"
found in the rubble of the World Trade Center towers

Alice Smith Fern Allée

Tropical Garden

Word Garden

One is encouraged to create messages or poems
in the Word Garden

Sundial of the Sundial Garden with
plants that do not need much water

Pollarded Tree Collection of trees that were
regularly pruned, partly because they were
used in experiments that introduced insects
and diseases, and dead branches were trimmed