It appears that at one time Tyler Arboretum (Media, PA) had a "Totally Terrific Treehouses" exhibit, and perhaps some have stayed. They are open seasonally (i.e., closed in winter for safety reasons).
Storybook Houses (2008, by the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades) |
Imagination Station (2008, designed by Buchart-Horn/ BASCO Associates and built by Pocopson Industries) |
Entering the "trunk of a fallen tree" with Kent at the end |
The "trunk" branches out as a amphitheater |
A trunk (!) with dress-up clothes and props is provided |
Not a Treehouse: Hobbit Hollow features a small stone bridge over a culvert pipe, and a curved child-sized arbor tunnel |
The arbor tunnel is not yet totally covered with vines |
Feathered Friends Treehouse (no info) with a bird nest platform and scopes for bird sighting |
Not a Treehouse: Lenape Teaching Station with a dome-shaped wigwam used by the local Lenape tribes |
Not a Treehouse: Perhaps this was a tollbooth for trolls |
Cape May Bird House Treehouse (by Sam Burk and Paul Farnschlader) (9/1/2019) |
Aesculus parviflora/Bottlebrush Buckeye is more a shrub than a tree |
Bottlebrush Buckeye nuts (do not eat!) |
Safety nets for walking along a log? |
A quick detour through the Edible Garden.
Oops! This post was about a little more than the treehouses!
Asimina triloba/Pawpaw fruit |
Abelmoschus esculentus 'Jambalaya'/ Jambalaya Okra (KSS) |
Abelmoschus esculentus 'Crimson Splendor'/ Crimson Splendor Okra (KSS) |
Nearly full-grown Solanum melongena 'Fairy Tale'/Fairy Tale Eggplants |
Yardstick-long Lagenaria siceraria 'Longissima'/ Cucuzza or Zuchetta |
Flower of the Zuchetta plant; the vegetable is a gourd and not a squash |
Basella alba 'Rubra'/Malabar Spinach; it is not a true spinach |
Not a Treehouse: Thoreau's Cabin (by Pine Street Carpenters, Inc); a replica of the cabin at Walden Pond used by writer Henry David Thoreau |
Even the interior of Thoreau's Cabin has been replicated |
Not a Treehouse: Animal's Hideaway |
One of Animal's Hideaway entrances |
Entrance to the Stopford Family Meadow Maze |
Paths are mown through the meadow in a labyrinthine pattern |
The center of the Meadow Maze |
A Cosmos Meadow! (KSS) |
Fort Tyler Treehouse (2013, a collaboration among Linn Architects, students from The Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades and Toll Brothers) |
Fort Tyler as seen from below |
Tulip Tree Treehouse (2014, by Parris Bradley and built by Michael Rhile of Rhile Construction) (9/1/2019) (KSS) |
1 comment:
THANK YOU for making this article - we have never been to the arboretum and you literally laid out all the cool focal points that I was looking for :)
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