Cornell Plantations
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The Cornell Plantations (80 ha / 200 acres) are botanical gardens, including the F.R. Newman Arboretum, located adjacent to the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, New York. They are open daily without charge.
The arboretum (60 ha / 150 acres) contains fine collections of chestnuts, conifers, flowering crabapples, maples, oaks, urban trees, and walnuts. See "F.R. Newman Arboretum" for further details.
The botanical gardens (20 ha / 50 acres) contain a wide variety of ornamental, useful, and native plants, arranged into gardens as follows:
- Container Gardens - Ornamental plants suitable for growing in containers, such as Agastache foeniculum, Agave, Alocasia esculenta, Amaranthus, Canna × generalis, Celosia, Coleus, Colocasia, Cordyline, Cuphea, Cycad, Duranta erecta, Eucalyptus cinerea, Fuchsia, Hibiscus acetosella, Iresine, Lantana camara, Melianthus major, Perilla frutescens, Phormium tenax, Salpiglossis sinuata, and Solenostemon scutellarioides.
- Deans Garden - herbaceous and woody plants, many uncommon in the Ithaca area, such as Vancouveria hexanra and Stuartia pseudocamellia.
- Decorative Arts Flower Garden - a wide variety of flowers including sunflower, carnation, rose, poppy, peony, iris, lily, chrysanthemum, daisy, and tulip.
- Flowering Shrub and Ornamental Grass Garden - flowering shrubs, ornamental grasses, and perennials including daylillies. Shrubs include Hypericum, Hydrangea, and Potentilla; grasses include Calamagrostis, Chasmanthium latifolium, Festuca, Miscanthus, Molinia, Panicum virgatum, Pennisetum alopecuroides, and Saccharum ravennae.
- Groundcover Garden - groundcovers including Asarum, Athyrium, Cyclamen hederifolium, Dryopteris, Helleborus orientalis, Hosta, Lysimachia, Marrubium, and Pachysandra.
- Herb Garden - 17 beds of herbs, arranged as follows: Ornamental Herbs; Herbs of the Ancients; Herbs in Literature; Bee Herbs; Salads and Potherbs; Edible flowers; Herbs of the Native Americans; Medicinal Herbs; Culinary Herbs; Economic Herbs; Dye Herbs; Tea Herbs; Fragrant Herbs; Sacred Herbs; Scented Geraniums; Savory Seed Herbs; and Tussie-Mussies and Nosegays.
- Heritage Vegetable Garden - four beds, representing typical vegetables grown in the northeastern United States in the eighteenth century, the late 1800s, World Wars I and II, and today's gardens.
- International Crop and Weed Garden - crop plants and economically important plants from around the world, including bananas, sugar cane, coffee, tea, sorghum, cotton, grasses, and forbs (non-grass plants eaten by livestock); also a collection of weeds arranged in an attractive agricultural setting.
- Peony and Sun Perennial Garden - over 90 cultivars of peonies, as well as a display of recent perennial cultivars suitable for sunny locations.
- Poisonous Plants Garden - plants poisonous to livestock, including Atropa, Chelidonium, Cicuta, Digitalis, Lobelia, Phytolacca, and Rheum.
- Rhododendron and Woodland Perennial Garden - hundreds of rhododendrons and azaleas, set among white pines, ferns, hostas, etc.
- Rock Garden - rock garden, including Aethionema , Arenaria, Aubrieta, Cymbalaria , Dianthus, Erigeron, Globularia, Houstonia, Leiophyllum, Linaria, Penstemon, Pulsatilla, Sedum, Silene, Veronica, etc.
- Wildflower Garden - wildflowers including skunk cabbage, trout lily, marsh marigold, and trillium.
- Winter Garden - plants interesting in all seasons, including dogwood, willow, birch, hawthorn, and dwarf to midsize conifers.
- Woodland Streamside Garden - a boardwalk through a boggy areas including royal ferns, blue and yellow flag iris, and Japanese primrose.
Cornell Plantations also manages an additional 1400 ha (3500 acres) of biologically diverse natural areas including bogs, fens, gorges, glens, meadows, and woodlands.
[edit] See also
- F.R. Newman Arboretum
- List of botanical gardens in the United States
- North American Plant Collections Consortium
