Trees

Urban Tree Stewardship

This urban forestry-oriented program focuses on improving the longevity and resilience of our campus tree canopy. Interns will propagate trees in the nursery, plant and care for young trees in the campus landscape, and implement maintenance and monitoring plans designed to assess the sustainability and climate tolerance of trial tree species in an urban environment.

Image of a hand drawing an oak tree with a rainbow above it.

Oak Gall's History and Life Cycle

Fri, June 19, 2020

Student Leadership

Join our Learning by Leading™ GATEways Outreach team as they explain what oak galls (aka oak apples) are, how they are created by wasps in addition to creative ways they are used by humans to create ink in this charming and educational explainer video!

Demystifying Myrtles: Pruning Lagerstroemia

Fri, February 21, 2020

Community Engagement

By Taylor Lewis, nursery manager

Months of color, drought-tolerant, Valley-appropriate, fast-growing, easy-care — these traits are a few reasons that crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia indica), and their many cultivars, have become one of the most widely used home landscape, commercial, parking lot, median strip, landscape trees in the Sacramento Valley. So, what’s the mystery?

Image of Taylor Lewis and Abby Hart at the UC Davis Arboretum's Lath House where they propagate limited numbers of trees.

Nursery Special Projects: All About Trees

Tue, September 24, 2019

Environmental Education

Highlights from Arboretum Teaching Nursery projects focused on growing trees for the Arboretum and Public Garden and the broader community.

Arboretum staff work to conserve genetic diversity of rare Texas oaks

by Emily B Griswold
Thu, May 09, 2019

Environmental Education

Since 2016, the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden has been working on a collaborative tree gene conservation project focusing on rare and threatened oaks in West Texas.

Image of Taylor Lewis, nursery manager and Abbey Hart, special projects manager with the trees they are working to restore to Capitol Park in Sacramento.

Preserving the History of Capitol Park's Civil War-Era Trees

Thu, April 25, 2019

Community Engagement

In an effort to save part of this living history, two UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden staff members are going the extra mile to propagate the boxelder, as well as many other species in Capitol Park that suffered during the recent drought.

Deck and at the Animal Science GATEway garden

Campus-Grown Trees Transformed

Tue, March 19, 2019

Environmental Education

When one of our campus trees needs to be pruned, or removed for health or safety reasons, the green-waste wood is either chipped and used as mulch in landscapes throughout campus, or — depending on future project needs — salvaged and delivered to a local wood miller.

Behold the UC Davis Arboretum’s amazing Acacia collection

Fri, February 08, 2019

Environmental Education

The UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden invites the community to take a guided tour through the Eric E. Conn Acacia Grove and experience this collection during its amazing winter bloom on Saturday, February 23 at 2 p.m.; the tour leaves from Putah Creek Lodge.

New Self-Guided Tour Highlights Iconic Arboretum Oaks

Tue, January 08, 2019

Student Leadership

Learning by Leading™ Museum Education create a new self-guided walking tour of Peter J. Shields Oak Grove that highlight twelve trees trees of international origin from this unique collection.

Marquee trees debut in Davis this May

by Katie Ferguson Hetrick
Thu, April 26, 2018

Student Leadership

Coming soon to a tree near you — oversized hang tags promoting the importance of trees — thanks to a collaboration between the City of Davis Tree Commission, Tree Davis, the California Center for Urban Horticulture and the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden.