Travel Abroad Travel Abroad Image Upcoming Trips Travel abroad with the Morris Arboretum & Gardens! Image Gardens, Wine, & Wilderness: A Tour of New Zealand January 10 – 28, 2026 Take the trip of a lifetime by traveling to New Zealand with friends from the Morris Arboretum & Gardens. Leave winter behind and head to the Southern Hemisphere for long summer days to experience stunning gardens and some of nature’s most spectacular scenery. For 30 years, local landscape architect Richard Lyon of Garden Adventures, LLC has been leading groups to experience his native New Zealand. Highlights of the trip include more than ten private garden visits, Auckland Botanical Gardens, Mount Cook, Doubtful Sound, and Mount Aspiring National Park, as well as opportunities to enjoy locally produced world-famous sauvignon blanc and pinot noir. Due to its popularity and reputation as an exceptional experience, this is the tenth time Morris is partnering with Garden Adventures. See Brochure Past Trips Image Lake Takepo, New Zealand, 2024. Image Dart River Tour, Queenstown, New Zealand, 2024. Image Government House, Wellington, New Zealand, 2024. Image Hooker Valley Track with Mt. Cook in the distance, New Zealand, 2024. Image Fisherman’s Bay, Long Bay, New Zealand, 2024. Image Fisherman’s Bay, Long Bay, New Zealand, 2024. Image Mt. Cook, New Zealand, 2024.  Image Travelers dining at Mincher, Auckland, New Zealand, 2024. Image Cook Strait, New Zealand, 2024.  Image Giant’s House, Akaroa, New Zealand, 2024.  Image Welton House, Marlborough, New Zealand, 2024.  1 / PREV NEXT … Travel …

NEW! Morris Arboretum & Gardens’ Certificate in Ecological Horticulture The program is geared toward avid home gardeners and landscape professionals looking to develop a deep understanding of sustainable landscape design and management. We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new learning opportunity here at the Morris: The Morris Arboretum & Gardens’ Certificate in Ecological Horticulture will offer the opportunity to gain proficiency in creating and maintaining landscapes that are grounded in ecological principles and practice. Geared toward avid home gardeners and landscape professionals looking to develop a deep understanding of sustainable landscape design and management, this classroom and field-based program is a series of 12 courses that are open to the public. The program is self-paced and can be completed in one year of intensive learning or up to several years at a slower pace. The first four courses in the series will be offered in fall 2025.       Image The Plants of Pennsylvania by Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy Block. What makes this certificate program unique?    The Morris Arboretum & Gardens’ Certificate in Ecological Horticulture is unique in our ecological systems-based approach to landscape design and maintenance. Our program approaches each garden as a complex living system, where plants, soil, water, animals, climate, human activity, and other elements interact with and influence each other. In hands-on and classroom instruction, our program teaches design and stewardship strategies that address these relationships holistically rather than focusing on individual components in isolation.   The program will focus on our region here in Southeast Pennsylvania. Drawing from our deep expertise in this region’s ecology, all instruction will speak to our local ecosystems. Here at the Morris we have a long history in the native plants of Pennsylvania—we have literally written THE book on this topic! Instructors in the certificate program will …