Gardens & Trees
Learn more about our garden features, great trees, and more.
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Garden Features
Almost around every corner, visitors will discover unusual gardens and garden areas that are unique to the Morris Arboretum & Gardens.
Great Trees
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![A katsura-tree with large branches growing upwards.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_large/public/2023-01/Katsura%20LynnWeaver.jpg?h=6b1b0ce6&itok=E08NVYZk)
Katsura-tree
Planted in the early 1900s as part of a Japanese garden, this native of Japan and China has become the signature tree of the Morris.
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![A large engler beech tree.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_large/public/2023-01/DSC_1215.jpg?h=03745841&itok=mZU5rpiT)
Engler beech
This spectacular specimen with its wide-spreading branch structure is one of the rarest trees in the collection.
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![A grove of dawn-redwood trees.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_large/public/2023-01/metasequoia.jpg?h=e5998496&itok=DrUMoTv7)
Dawn-redwood
Many Morris visitors make a special pilgrimage to the grove of dawn redwood trees along the East Brook. This grove includes some of the oldest and largest dawn redwoods in the country.
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![A natural area in bloom with native flowers and a rainbow in the sky.](/sites/default/files/styles/text_image/public/2023-01/Delainey%20Williams.jpeg?itok=G98JxJyF)