10am - 12pm
Tau Beta Pi Service Event
Members of the University's Tau Beta Pi fraternity will help cultivate our living campus, but all are welcome to join. Tools and gloves are provided and volunteers should wear close-toed shoes. Volunteer tasks include weeding, planting, pruning, and mulching.
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Want to test your plant knowledge here on campus? Challenge your department or student club to a plant ID quiz!
Succulent Propagation & Care
Did you receive a succulent plant from the Mental Health Coalition? Congrats on your new baby plant ~ here is how to care for it:
First, succulents are designed to store water, so don't water them until the soil dries out. Depending on where you have it, this could be once and week or even once every two weeks. Make sure you have a pot that has drainage holes in it so the soil doesn't stay wet. Succulents don't like "wet feet". Put it by a sunny window and that's it! That's all you have to do.
Get to Know Our Staff
Since 2008, The University of Maryland campus has been recognized as an Arboretum and Botanical Garden. This process created the Enhancement Team at UMD. Its mission is to create, improve, and maintain the landscape management of perennial plants and annual flowers in the most visible places and essential areas of the University. Luis Alfonzo was the first horticulturist to lead the Enhancement Team, and continues to guide its operation.
8am
Fall Birding Walk
Join us at the Arboretum for an early morning fall birding walk with lifelong birder Kitty Church.
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Have fun on your next walk around campus with one of our word searches or bingo cards!
Prince George's Audubon Society Certified Habitats
The Arboretum began a collaboration in 2023 with Epsilon Eta and the Prince George's Audubon Society to recognize its commitment to bird habitat on campus. Epsilon Eta, the co-ed, professional fraternity focusing on Environmental Science and Sustainability was established in the Fall Semester of 2019. This organization focuses on professional and academic development through service days, on- and off-campus projects designed and implemented by members, and social events.
ArbNet Level IV Accreditation
In 2019, the University became a Level IV ArbNet Accredited Arboretum by The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and The Morton Arboretum, for achieving particular standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens. The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program is the only global initiative to officially recognize arboreta at various levels of development, capacity, and professionalism.
Tree Campus Higher Education
Since the inaugural year of the arboretum in 2008, the University has been honored by the Arbor Day Foundation with the designation of Tree Campus USA, now called Tree Campus Higher Education – one of just 25 campuses to do so.