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Tribute	Description	Type	Location
Poet’s Bench	Bench along the road above Heathdale	Bench	Heathdale, Nichols Arboretum
Porter Family Foundation and Annette Shaffer and Don Tinson II	A hoop house at the Campus Farm.	Hoop House	Campus Farm, Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Post Family Legacy Fund	Bridge on the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Trail near Geddes Rd	Bridge	Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Matthaei Botanical Gardens Trail
Rachael Hubers	A Tree Peony at the Peony Garden of Nichols Arboretum.	Tree Peony	Nichols Arboretum, Peony Garden, Washington Heights Entrance
Rachael Hubers	A Bur Oak by the River Landing of Nichols Arboretum.	Tree	Nichols Arboretum, River Landing
Rachael Townsend	Crabapple tree in the orchard near the overlook	Tree	Geddes Entrance, Nichols Arboretum, Orchard
Ralph Norvin McFarland	Bur oak in Sam Graham Trees	Tree	Hardwood Floodplain, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Sam Graham Landscapes
Ray and Frances Kinder	Bench at the entrance to Alex Dow Field	Bench	Amphitheatre Area, Nichols Arboretum, Pine Grove
Raymond C. Smith	Boulder under crab apples at corner of Terrace	Rock	Building Front, Gardens and Service Areas, Main Building, Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Reynold ‘Reyn’ Henrickson	Chinkapin Oak in the gardens commons	Tree	Commons, Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Richard “Dick” Chesbrough	A bench along the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Trail at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens.	Bench	Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Matthaei Botanical Gardens Trail
Richard A. Hanson	European hornbeam tree in the Urban Pocket Garden	Tree	Gardens and Service Areas, Main Building, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Urban Pocket Garden
Richard C. Nadon	Black Walnut along the trail overlooking Heathdale	Tree	Heathdale, Nichols Arboretum
Richard Lennart Lundgren	The scarlet oak on the East side of the Commons	Tree	Commons, Gardens and Service Areas, Main Building, Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Richard T. Saran	White pine at the west end of the Peony Garden	Tree	Nichols Arboretum, Peony Garden, Washington Heights Entrance