Harvard Arnold Arboretum (8/7/2026)

Friday, August 7, 2026

More thanks to Keith and Joyce for the "B&B" breakfast and the jaunt to Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, we were not done with Harvard yet!

Our goal was the Bonsai & Peijing Collection, that
began with a donation of the Larz Anderson
Collection of Japanese Dwarfed Trees in 1937

The bonsai were displayed in a purpose-built pavilion, with a sensitive security system that requested you to keep back from the plants, which can only be viewed from the outside of the structure.

Cedrus altantica 'Glauca'/Blue Atlas Cedar
(started 1961)

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Chabo-Hiba'/Compact Hinoki
Cypress (started 1844)

Pinus parviflora/Japanese White Pine (started 1965)
appears to be growing out of a rock

Ginkgo biloba/Ginkgo (started 1890)

Stone lantern and Taxodium distichum/Bald Cypress
(unknown start date)

Ulmus parviflora/Lacebark Elm (unknown start date)

Albizia julibrissin/Persian Silk Tree
or Mimosa (started 2013)

Keith, Kent, Joyce