June 24, 2010

A group of Landscape Architecture students got together to plant a new oak sapling near the Geddes entrance of Nichol's Arboretum. The sapling was donated by Bill Schneider of Wildtype Native Plant Nursery, an alumnus of the Landscape Architecture Program at U-M, in honor of the program's Centennial anniversary celebration last October. The sapling is a bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa), a species native to Michigan. Bob Grese, the director of the Matthei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum and professor of Landscape Architecture at SNRE, located the young tree near some mature Honey Locusts, which the Bur Oak will grow up to replace as the older trees decline.

Thank you to Bill Schneider and the Landscape Architecture students who took time from their busy schedules to plant this new addition in the Arb!