ABOUT Bard College is an independent, nonsectarian, residential, coedu - LANDSCAPE cational college offering a four-year B.A. program in the liberal AND ARBORETUM arts and sciences. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grant the PROGRAM following degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College, a New York City public school in Manhattan; A.A. and B.A. at Bard Col - AT BARD COLLEGE lege at Simon’s Rock: The Early College in Great Barrington, Mas - sachusetts; B.A. at College, a joint program with Saint Petersburg State University, Russia; B.A., M.F.A., M.S. in environ - mental policy, and M.A. in teaching and curatorial studies at the Annandale campus; and M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of the dec - orative arts, design, and culture at The for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in Manhattan. In addition, The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five- year dual degree program, a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music, and an M.Music degree in vocal arts. Bard’s total enrollment is 3,200 students. The undergraduate college, founded in 1860, has an enrollment of more than 1,600 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. The College offers approximately 50 academic programs in four divisions.

GETTING TO BARD Bard College is in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 90 miles north of New York Rodger’s Flower, Rodgersia spp. Photo: Bessina Harrar City and 220 miles southwest of Boston. For directions, visit www.bard.edu. MISSION The Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard College preserves and enhances the natural and landscaped resources of the Bard campus and promotes knowledge and appreciation of horticulture and conservation. It aims to provide a campus environment rich in horticultural diversity and beauty that can be readily enjoyed by the College and surrounding community. Black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia Photo: Bessina Harrar

LANDSCAPE AND ARBORETUM PROGRAM The creation of a thousand forests is AT BARD COLLEGE in one acorn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 phone 845-758-7179 e-mail [email protected] web http://inside.bard.edu/horticulture/

Cover photo: Bessina Harrar BECOME A FRIEND OF THE ARBORETUM Show your support for the Arboretum and Landscape Program at Bard College by making a charitable contribution. Gifts may be made via check or credit card, or, if you prefer, Bard College also gladly accepts gifts of appreciated securities and real estate. Another excellent way to donate to the Arboretum is through a planned gift. You may be able to double or even triple your gift through your or your spouse’s employer’s matching gift program. Contributions to Bard College are tax deductible to the fullest ex - tent of the law. Please check with your financial adviser for spe - cific information regarding the deductibility of your gift.

ABOUT Checks and other gift-related correspondence should be sent to: THE Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs PROGRAM Bard College PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000 Credit card gifts by phone: 1-800-BARDCOL For more information about giving to the Arboretum Program or to Bard College, visit www.bard.edu/giving.

Black maple, Acer nigrum Photo: Doug Baz DONATIONS The Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard College gladly The Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard College en - FRIENDS OF THE ARBORETUM accepts donations such as the following: hances the aesthetic, educational, and public services of the Col - The Friends of the Landscape and Arboretum Program at •Tribute or memorial gifts lege and promotes plant conservation and preservation and the Bard College is a membership group that supports the Arbore - •Books for the Arboretum’s horticultural library essential character of the landscape. Bard’s 540-acre campus, in tum Program’s mission and carries out its goals. In •Garden containers the heart of New York’s Hudson River Valley, is rich in history and addition to receiving Quercus , the Arboretum’s quarterly •Trees full of natural beauty. The campus has long been recognized for newsletter, and invitations to special events, tours, and campus •Garden benches and chairs its spectacular gardens and superb collection of living trees and horticultural-related events, Arboretum Friends support •Planned gifts and bequests plants—in fact, many of the Valley’s most notable trees are lo - educational efforts and horticultural activities, including the •Corporate sponsorships cated at Bard. The Landscape and Arboretum Program was following goals: formed with the charge of preserving and cultivating the cam - Research and tree inventory. A comprehensive horticultural CONTACT US pus’s horticultural assets. The Arboretum Program formalizes the database and library, including a tree inventory, will support For more information about the Arboretum, or to become a College’s dedication to caring for its unique landscape and opens staff, faculty, and students as they research the College’s Friend of the Landscape and Arboretum Program at Bard Col - the door to horticultural education, outreach, and research. botanical collections, track changes in the landscape, and plan lege, visit http://inside.bard.edu/horticulture or appropriate maintenance, restoration, and preservation of Bard’s www.bard.edu/giving, or call 845-758-7179. COLLECTIONS AND GARDENS trees and plantings. The Arboretum’s horticultural resources are spread across Landscape master plan. The College’s landscape master plan is Maiden grass, Miscanthus sinensis Photo: Rick Darke Bard’s campus—many of the trees and gardens date from the helping to guide future growth and development so as to College’s founding in 1860. Notable gardens and collections in - preserve and protect the campus’s natural beauty. In support of clude the Blithewood Garden; historic pine and spruce allées; a this effort, all building projects at the College include a horti cul - former New York State champion red maple; several innovative tural plan that encompasses plantings and the new building’s naturalistic perennial borders; a crab apple orchard; the wood - place in the campus’s overall landscape . land gardens surrounding the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Education and outreach. The Arboretum will act as an outdoor Performing Arts; and, next to the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, classroom for courses across the academic curriculum. the Elizabethan Knot Garden and the Anna Jones Memorial A planned Arboretum Center will provide a focal point for edu - Meditation Garden. cational and outreach activities and a location for the Arbore - tum’s staff, library, and research center. LANDSCAPE AND ARBORETUM TRAIL WALK

1 American Beech Grove 10 Former New York State Champion Red Maple 19 Meadow Garden 28 Spruce Allée on Robbins Road 2 Anna Jones Memorial Meditation Garden 11 Ginkgos 20 Native Garden 29 Sycamore Specimen 3 Blithewood Garden 12 Grandaddy Oak 21 Oak Grove 30 Tennis Courts Planting 4 Catmint Border 13 Grass Garden 22 Perennial Garden 31 Twin Locusts 5 Community Garden 14 Honorarium Japanese Garden 23 Pine Allée 32 Urban Meadow 6 Crab Apple Orchard 15 Japanese Woodland Path 24 Quad Courtyard 33 Village Oak 7 Elizabethan Knot Garden 16 Karen Wilcox Memorial Garden 25 Redbud Specimen 34 Wall Garden 8 European Beech Specimen 17 Kline Annual Planter 26 Shade Garden 35 Woodland Garden 9 Richard B. Fisher Center Woodland Garden 18 Maple/Oak Allée on Manor Road 27 Spruce Allée on Annandale Road 36 Yellowwood Grove