FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22: Grounds will close for a private event at 4:00 pm. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23: Grounds will re-open at 8:00 am. SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 24: Goat Yoga has been cancelled due to the weather. Please check your email for updates. 

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Sounds of a Summer Night

Wednesday evening, July 27, at Reeves-Reed Arboretum 

For a week straight we all suffered from high heat and humidity.  Staff, visitors and even the flowers in the gardens seem to move and sway in a slow motion stupor.  Yet, at 7 pm Wednesday evening, July 27, with 250 people gathered at the Arboretum, as the chords of Val Vigoda’s electric violin sounded, the grounds of the Arboretum suddenly awakened.  Dancers elegantly moved from the uppe...

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Big Yellow Taxi

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

-Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

We don't charge people to see the trees at Reeves-Reed Arboretum (although a dollar and a half seems pretty cheap). We really are a tree museum, though. I mention that for two reasons – first of all, we have some really cool trees and plants here, and we're adding to the coll...

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ART in the Garden Gala 2016

The Arboretum is in a flurry of activity as we get ready for ART in the Garden 2016.  Garden sculptures are being installed throughout the grounds, art work is being hung in the Wisner House Gallery, tons of plants are being added to the flower beds and borders, and auction items are coming through the door.

ART in the Garden is the Arboretum's eagerly anticipated annual garden party and largest fu...

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