UCSC Arboretum | 40 years and growing—happy times and hard work

This forty-year retrospective of the UCSC Arboretum's development and growth is based on an exhibit at the Arboretum that opened in Fall, 2005

A history of the Arboretum

Happy times . . . and hard work.

some photographs

Tough Banksia seeds cones need a fire before they will eject seeds.
Helen Englesberg, manager of the nursery, cooks a Banksia cone to release the seeds

Helen Englesberg training volunteers
to propagate kangaroo paws (Anigozanthos)

Barbara Sherrif, Peggy Keech, Jean Beevers
at Dried Flower sale

Shirley Beneke, one of a dedicated corps of volunteers

Dried Flower and Succulent plant sale volunteers

Docents Millie Cooper, Helen Phippen, Naomi Bloss
Marie Beckham, Cynthia Passaro

Grace Heintz labeled all the trees in the Eucalyptus Grove

Marie Beckham, tireless volunteer and Board Member (1986)

Thanks to all who have given their money, their time and—most of all—themselves.

Don Gholston started the Library collection at the Arborteum

Arboretum Barbecue (2003)

The 30th anniversary birthday cake (Sept. 1996)

Volunteers Peggy Keech and Lynn Roberts
Outreach coordinator Susie Bowers in the background

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A history of the Arboretum

Happy times . . . and hard work. some photographs

Thanks to all who have given their money, their time and—most of all—themselves.

Happy times . . . and hard work.

some photographs