By Alyssa Abaloz Last year a team of staff members developed Every Day Outdoors as a way to inspire the Matthaei-Nichols community to spend time outdoors all year long. This challenge began in the winter, when outdoor activities sometimes seem few and far between....
Flowering gray dogwood. Photo: Cranbrook Science. Gray dogwood is a shrub, reaching a maximum height of 16 feet. Flowers on gray dogwood form dome-shaped clusters. Photo: Dan Mullen. By Alyssa Abaloz This week’s native plant is the Gray Dogwood, or Cornus racemosa....
Flowering wintergreen. Photo: Matthew Beziat. Bright red berries remain on the shrub all winter long, providing nourishment for many species of bird. Photo: HR, Flickr. Wintergreen berry peeking through the snow. Photo: Dennis Wilkinson. By Alyssa Abaloz This week’s...
By Katie Stannard Outgoing Communications Manager Joe Mooney trying to upstage the poinsettia tree in the conservatory at Matthaei, December 2021. One of the true hallmarks of an exceptional writer and editor is their ability to erase their subjectivity from a...
We put together a slide show of winter scenes of our properties from the last 20 years. Many volunteer photographers along with staff, former and current, captured these winter scenes from 2001-2021: Bob Grese, Katie Stannard, Adrienne O’Brien, John Metzler,...
Wild petunia flowers. Photo: G.D. Bebeau. The entire plant of wild petunia is hairy. Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden. Flower buds of Ruellia humilis. Photo: Janice Lynn. By Joseph Mooney This week’s native plant is wild petuniua, Ruellia humilis. In the world of...
Matthaei-Nichols Events Coordinator Alexis Ford took these photos of our holiday 2021 conservatory exhibit, “The Greenhouse Gallery.” It’s about plants as the inspiration for art and design principles, and as art in themselves. Check it out soon....
Pawpaw fruit. Photo: Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Pawpaw flowers. Photo: Missouri Botanical Garden. Pawpaw leaves. Photo: Plant Image Library. By Joseph Mooney Native plant of the week: Pawpaw (Asimina triloba). A taste of the tropics right here in Michigan. This...
Photographer John Metzler visits the arb and gardens a lot, coming out in every kind of weather to take photos of our spaces. John’s pictures truly capture the beauty, grace, and wit of nature in all its forms. Click on any of the images below to open the...
The red osier dogwood’s bluish-white berries are often enjoyed by birds and mammals. The best time to see red osier dogwoods’ yellowish-white flowers is between late May and early June. Most often found in swampy marsh areas, the red osier dogwood...
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