In 2023, Hoyt Arboretum Friends Visitor Center volunteers and trail rovers welcomed more than 40,000 visitors, and our Nature Educators interacted with 5,400 children. This is just a small faction of all the folks who came to explore and learn from our global tree collection! Museum of Living Trees Beyond the people Hoyt Arboretum Friends … Read more
Red, yellow, orange, purple: fall colors are bursting out all over at Hoyt Arboretum! With over 2,300 different species of trees, there’s quite a wide variety of leaves to turn a plethora of different colors. Every fall, the most common question we hear in the Visitor Center is “when will the leaves reach their peak?”. … Read more
As winter’s chill begins to yield to spring’s warmer and longer days, the flowers at Hoyt Arboretum are responding enthusiastically. Being situated nearly a thousand feet above the valley means that the seasonal shift at the Arboretum lags behind lower elevations. As the cherry blossoms begin to fade by the waterfront, the flowering cherries at … Read more
(This post was originally published in Hoyt Arboretum’s December 2019 e-newsletter. Since the writing of this post, the manzanitas have sprouted and are doing well!) Someone who’s not so well-acquainted with the life cycles of trees may subscribe to the common misconception that flora “die” in the winter. But if there’s anything that plants can … Read more
Does Hoyt Arboretum have redwood trees? We sure do! Hoyt Arboretum is home to three different redwood species, that number about 70 individual trees (including a few cultivars). Most of them are located in the area immediately surrounding the Redwood Deck. Redwood trees are iconic in western North America for their massive trunks (remember those … Read more