Early-Season Blooms Tour – February 26, 2025 (Links to an external site)
Cohosted with the Center for the Environment for Environmental Research & Creativity Week
Event: Sugar Maple Boil
Sunday, February 23, 2025 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Burning Kumquat, Wallace Drive (behind Alumni House, across from Butterfly Garden) Visit the Burning Kumquat garden between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 23rd to witness the final stage of the maple tapping process — boiling the maple sap! Come by to enjoy the […]
(Updated) Event: Love Letters to Trees
Do you have an oak that you study under? A magnolia whose flowers you adore? A ginkgo you hold your nose around but still cherish? Visit the Arboretum table at the times and places below to write a letter to your favorite tree! This is the third year of the Love Letters to Trees campaign, […]
Mudd Field makeover: Shade trees, irrigation updates and a new green for relaxing (Links to an external site)
A new and improved Mudd Field is coming to WashU in 2028. Read more »
Event: Winter Tree Identification
Friday, January 31, 2025 3 PM to 4:30 PM Danforth University Center (DUC), Room 248 6475 Forsyth, St. Louis, Missouri 63130 Join the WashU Arboretum for a hands-on lesson about identifying winter trees with Tyson research scientist Erin O’Connell. The event will involve a short presentation on how to identify trees based on characteristics like bark, […]
Arboretum Sticker Competition – Calling All Tree-Loving Student Artists!
The WashU Arboretum is now welcoming design submissions from WashU students for the 2025 Arboretum token, featuring this year’s Tree of the Year, Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa). Design requirements: Submission Deadline: January 31, 2025 All current Washington University students, graduate and undergraduate, are welcome to submit their art for the Arboretum’s third annual Tree of the Year […]
Home to 6,500 trees, WashU Arboretum earns rare status (Links to an external site)
The WashU Arboretum recently received Level III accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program. Campus will be adding more trees near new ArtSci building. Read more »
Obituary: Stan H. Braude, professor of practice in Arts & Sciences, 62 (Links to an external site)
Stan Braude, a professor of practice in biology in Arts & Sciences and the curator of the WashU arboretum, died at home Saturday, June 1, 2024, after a short illness. He was 62.
Valentines to Our Trees
In February 2023, WashU students were invited to write notes, poems or love letters to their favorite tree on campus. Hundreds of students filled out valentines cards that were hung from the branches of their favorite trees early on the morning of Valentine’s Day. Did the Valentine’s cards increase awareness of the Arboretum? One hundred and […]
Iconic American basswood to be replanted in Brookings Quad (Links to an external site)
A clone of the felled tree will grow where the original stood for more than 100 years
Planting for the future (Links to an external site)
Arboretum curator Stan Braude shares his goal for the campus landscape as well as for those who enjoy it.
Rare trail marker tree planted at WashU (Links to an external site)
Buder Center hosted planting ceremony led by Native American people
University receives ArbNet honor (Links to an external site)
WashU has been awarded a Level 2 accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum for achieving standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.
Washington University maintains Tree Campus USA status (Links to an external site)
Washington University in St. Louis has again earned Tree Campus USA status from the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management.
10th annual Arbor Tour showcases east end trees (Links to an external site)
An official Tree Campus USA school, university boasts 4,200 trees on 169 acres
Danforth Campus recognized by ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program (Links to an external site)
Washington University in St. Louis has been awarded a Level 1 accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum for achieving standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.
Planting for the future (Links to an external site)
East end transformation will feature 350 new trees
Descendant of George Washington’s tree alive and well on Washington University’s campusCopy of Planting for the future (Links to an external site)
WashU receives plaque designating the tree’s historical significance
11 trees planned for Earth Day (Links to an external site)
A collaborative effort between students, staff and the University administration has resulted in the planned planting of 11 trees on the Hilltop Campus to mark Earth Day 2006.