Aralia elata 'Variegata' (Variegated Japanese Aralia), habit (3.100991)
Date: July 1981Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aralia elata 'Variegata' (Variegated Japanese Aralia), beautiful view of full tree, in a deep forest-like garden setting. White margined leaves make the tree appear to shimmer against the darker background trees.
Extent: 1 slide
Aralia elata (Miq.) Seem. (Japanese angelica tree), habit (3.101003)
Date: October 1993Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aralia elata (Miq.) Seem. (Japanese angelica tree), small Aralia elata trees are seen against a background of larger trees, with tall grasses in the foreground. The trees and grasses seem to be changing color, from greens to straw.
Extent: 1 slide
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), habit (3.101225)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), view of a tall black chokeberry shrub, in springtime bloom, showing a canopy covered in delicate white flowers. The shrub is planted along a wood chip covered path, with a variety of other species of shrubs seen along the path and in the distance.
Extent: 1 slide
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), flowers (3.101227)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), view from above of the black chokeberry in bloom. The delicate white flower clusters look like tiny pearls.
Extent: 1 slide
Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’ Autumn Magic black chokeberry, leaves and flowers (3.101233)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’ Autumn Magic black chokeberry, leaves and flowers. This view of the black chokeberry shrub looks like a bouquet of dainty, pink-tinged, white florets, surrounded by dark glossy green leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’ Autumn Magic black chokeberry, leaves and flowers (3.101234)
Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’ Autumn Magic black chokeberry, leaves and flowers. Stunning close view of a black chokeberry shrub in full bloom. The dark green leaves , held on deep cherry-red stems are well defined, but the multitude of lacy white blooms take your breath away.
Extent: 1 slide
Astilbe 'Rheinland' (Rheinland astilbe), habit (3.104122)
Date: June 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Astilbe 'Rheinland' (Rheinland astilbe), habit, pink flowers; sedum in foreground; other garden plants in background; brick walk.
Extent: 1 slide
Astilbe 'Deutschland' (Deutschland astilbe), flowers (3.104123)
Date: June 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Astilbe 'Deutschland' (Deutschland astilbe), flowers; white, plume-like flower panicles; other plants in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Astilbe 'Deutschland' (Deutschland astilbe), habit (3.104124)
Date: May 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Astilbe 'Deutschland' (Deutschland astilbe), habit; clump-forming plant with white plume-like flower panicles and green leaves; landscape with rocks, dirt and other plants in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Astilboides tabularis (Hemsl.) Engler (Rodger's flower), habit (3.104145)
Date: July 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Astilboides tabularis (Hemsl.) Engler (Rodger's flower), habit; large green leaves; tall flower spikes with white flowers; garden bed in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' (Japanese painted fern), habit (3.104158)
Date: July 1977Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Athyrium niponicum 'Pictum' (Japanese painted fern), habit; woodland landscape with water in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. (blackberry-lily), several flowering plants (3.105207)
Date: August 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. (blackberry-lily), several flowering plants, upright habit, surrounded by other kinds of plants and woodchip mulch
Extent: 1 slide
Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. (blackberry-lily), flowers (3.105208)
Date: August 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. (blackberry-lily), several orange-petaled flowers
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), shrub (3.105217)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), yellow-flowered shrub, surrounded by other types of plants
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), several stems with yellow flowers (3.105218)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), several stems with yellow flowers and green leaves, pink stems
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis koreana Palib. (Korean barberry), upright habit of shrub (3.105233)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis koreana Palib. (Korean barberry), upright habit of shrub; green leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’ (Purple-leaved Japanese barberry), shrub in garden (3.105256)
Date: July 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’ (Purple-leaved Japanese barberry), shrub in garden, purple leaves, many kinds of trees and shrubs in background
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis thunbergii ‘Bogozam’ (BONANZA GOLD™ Japanese barberry), shrubs (3.105275)
Date: July 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis thunbergii ‘Bogozam’ (BONANZA GOLD™ Japanese barberry), two small golden-leaves shrubs surrounded by other kinds of shrubs, building in background
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), branches with leaves (3.105276)
Date: May 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), several flowering branches with yellow flowers arranged in racemes dangling from branches, green leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), shrub (3.105277)
Date: June 1999Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis ‘Tara’ (EMERALD CAROUSEL® barberry), flowering shrub in landscape bed, yellow flowers, green leaves, arching habit
Extent: 1 slide
Bergenia crassifolia (L.) Fritsch. (leather bergenia), habit (3.105287)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bergenia crassifolia (L.) Fritsch. (leather bergenia), several plants with pink-petaled flowers arranged in a cyme, green basal leaves in a rosette
Extent: 1 slide
Bergenia ‘Rotblum’ (Red-flowered bergenia), habit (3.105288)
Date: June 1995Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bergenia ‘Rotblum’ (Red-flowered bergenia), several flowering plants with pink petals in landscape bed with other perennials in background, flowers arranged in a cyme, basal green leaves in a rosette pattern
Betula costata Trautv. (elm-leaved birch), trunk and branches (3.105335)
Date: May 1998Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula costata Trautv. (elm-leaved birch), trunk and several main branches with smooth, white bark
Extent: 1 slide
Trip to China Enlarges Arboretum's Collection Newspaper Clipping (3.106961)
Date: October 19 1990Type: Document
Description:A newspaper clipping covering a specimen gathering and exchange trip to China by The Morton Arboretum botanists.
Extent: 1 sheet
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2023 January 25 (3.107010)
Date: January 25 2023Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on January 25, 2023 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Peter van der Linden, which lasted from 1987 to 1998. Topics include the Arboretum's collections, the evaluation and rehabilitation of collections, the construction of the North-South Tollway (I-355), salt studies, plant labels, seed collecting, and the Arbor Day Plant Sale.
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of the Morton Arboretum, Winter 1986 (3.107029)
Date: 1986Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Winter 1986 Branches Newsletter features articles about: berm building along the new north/south tollway to mitigate sound and air pollution, the Outpost hosting 5th grade classes from local Montessori schools for the resident program and the health and survival of plants at the Arboretum as they overwinter. Upcoming events, classes and a special training based on the new Volunteer Handbook are highlighted.
Extent: ;6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1989 (3.107040)
Date: 1989Creator: Engle, Martha
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1989 Branches Newsletter contains articles on the following: a history of the soil at the Arboretum, specifically the movement of the glaciers and the ice sheet that covered the area; an update on the berms' their formation, purpose (to mitigate salt, exhaust and noise pollution), and design; and a sampling of collecting trips conducted by Arboretum staff and scientists. An in-service for volunteers, special events and classes are featured along with a list of new volunteers.
Extent: ;6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of the Morton Arboretum, Spring 1990 (3.107044)
Date: 1990Creator: Way, Carol
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1990 Branches newsletter contains articles on the following: the Arboretum Propagation Facility including greenhouses; the introduction of fire or controlled burns into the East Woods; and the Soil Characterization Laboratory which was running tests on the soil and water at the Arboretum to ascertain the effects of sodium and calcium chlorides used as road deicers on the adjacent tollways. Volunteer opportunities, trainings, classes and events are featured along with lists of current and new volunteers.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Winter 1992 (3.107052)
Date: 1992Creator: Halperin, Marilyn J.
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Winter 1992 Branches Newsletter features the following articles: Integrated Pest Management or IPM, the use of botanical products and predatory insects to control pests, as it was deployed in Greenhouse 9; and an extensive write up on the volunteer Appreciation evening that year. Volunteer opportunities, lists of new and continuing volunteers, trainings, classes and events are also featured.
Extent: ;6 pages
Ed Hedborn oral history interview, 2023 March 08 (3.107277)
Date: March 8 2023Type: Audio
Description:A recording of an oral history interview with Ed Hedborn, manager of plant records, conducted by Kristin Arnold, archivist. The interview took place on March 8, 2023 in the Sterling Morton Library at The Morton Arboretum.
The interview focuses on Hedborn's experiences and memories of The Morton Arboretum's Collections Program during the curatorship of Kunso Kim, which lasted from 1998 to 2014, and Matt Lobdell, which lasted from 2014 to 2022. Topics include the development of the Arboretum's collections, online collections catalogs, the Arboretum's grid system, the Collections Master Plan, the building of the Curatorial and Operations Center, working in Plant Clinic, and tribute trees.
Another Family Member: Ozark Witch Hazel (3.10959)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1987Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Peking Lilac (Syringa pekinensis) (3.11014)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1991Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Summer-sweet Clethra (Clethra alnifolia) (3.11019)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1991Creator: Clark, Ross C., Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Lacebark Pine (Pinus bungeana) (3.11027)
Date: December 21 1991 – March 20 1992Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Eastern Redbud (Cercis Canadensis L.) (3.11031)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1992Creator: Clark, Ross C., Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Sweet-Fern (Comptonia peregrina) (3.11041)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1992Creator: Swink, Floyd, Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article