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From publicly posted calendar Checked Jun 19, 2026
Morning Fitness Walk
Join docent Lisa Gaquin for a brisk early morning walk along the inside perimeter of the Arboretum. This walk will be fast-paced, energetic, and will involve…
Arboretum Highlights Tour
Explore part of the Arboretum’s 281 acre landscape, hear stories of the Arboretum’s history, get an introduction to some of the many woody plant collections,…
Bizarre Botany: Working Together
Join Manager of Adult Programming and Events Sarah Nechamen for a deep dive into the strangest parts of the plant world. This month's theme is mutualisms and…
Birding Walk
Embark on a birdwatching tour in the Arboretum’s landscape with docent and birder Donna Sullivan. This two-hour tour is suitable for adult beginners as well as…
Terapia de Bosque en Español: El Corazón del Bosque
La terapia de bosque, también conocida como baño de bosque o shinrin-yoku, es una práctica basada en evidencia que te conecta con la naturaleza de manera…
Ask a Horticulturist – Bradley Rosaceous Collection
Stop by the Bradley Rosaceous Collection to chat with the Horticulturist who manages the rose garden. Horticulturist Rachel Lawlor will be there from 10:00am…
Little Explorers
Join us at the Arboretum as we read and discover new things about the natural world. During this one-hour program for our youngest guests and their grownups,…
Living Trees, Living Traditions: Cultural Perspectives on Plant Use
Trees have long played an important role in cultures around the world. On this tour, we delve into the ethnobotany of trees - how people of different cultures…
Bees and Beyond: Pollinators at the Arboretum
Join pollinator expert Nicole Bell for a walk through the Arboretum’s meadows to find bees and other pollinators in their natural habitat. Nicole will use a…
Tree Mob: Lightning Protection
In the heat of summer, lightning strikes represent a threat to the tallest trees of our collections. Join arborist AJ Tataronis for a Tree Mob to learn how the…
The History of Hemlock Hill
Hemlock Hill has been through some trials throughout its century and a half at the Arboretum, from the introduction of the hemlock woolly adelgid to the…
Trees that Shaped Civilization
Join docent Paul Eldrenkamp for a visit to five groups of trees that each played a particularly significant role in shaping five very different civilizations:…
Birding at the Arboretum
Embark on a birdwatching tour in the Arboretum’s landscape with docent and birder Donna Sullivan. This two-hour tour is suitable for adult beginners as well as…
Arnoldia Spotlight: Reading the Landscape as Historical Text
Before this landscape became an Arboretum, part of it belonged to a black landowner and farmer named Simeon Giles. A Harvard seminar called Slavery, the…
Nature Journaling: A Virtual Program
Are you trying to get (back) into a nature-journaling practice? Interested in discovering a new, creative way to engage with the world of trees? Join this…
All About Bats
As the sun sets, the bats come out! Join Arboretum Horticulturist Brendan Keegan and Matt Kamm, Associate Director of Field Conservation at Zoo New England,…
Birding Walk
Embark on a birdwatching tour in the Arboretum’s landscape with docent and birder Donna Sullivan. This two-hour tour is suitable for adult beginners as well as…
All-Ages Insect Safari
Join us for an interactive look at all the tiny critters that crawl, fly, or slither through the Arboretum landscape. We will have sweep nets and bug boxes to…
The Cosmic Tree: A Universal Symbol of Life: Flowering Trees
Cosmologies are ways of understanding the nature of the universe, of experiencing the world in all its variations including the visible and the invisible. Over…
Research Spotlight: Biodiversity in the Solar Pollinator Meadow
The Horticulture team planted the Solar Array Pollinator Meadow to provide a habitat for a wide variety of insects, birds, and other pollinators under and…
Plant-Based Fabric Dyeing: A Drop-In Event
Many of the plants grown at the Arboretum have been used as natural dyes for centuries: goldenrod for yellow, stinging nettle for green, madder or bloodroot…
Sketch Your Way to Tree ID
Use the power of art to hone your tree ID skills in this interactive class. The group will walk through the landscape, learning to identify common trees and…
Identifying Walnuts and Hickories
Nuts are ripening across the Arboretum landscape: black walnut, pignut, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory, and many more. Join herbalist Alex Klein for a…