Tyler Arboretum: Treehouses (9/7/2019)

Saturday, September 7, 2019
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)

Okay, not a Treehouse! Crooked Goblin Shack (by Mark Cook Landscape and
Contracting, LLC for the 2010 Philadelphia Flower Show); goblins prefer
to live in caves and are not very good at building if they must have a house)

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

Strummin' and Drummin' Treehouse (2009, by the local performance and
music education group Makin’ Music Rockin’ Rhythms) was made from
a fallen scarlet oak and the stump is the drum at the far end (9/1/2019)

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.

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)

Oops! This post was about a little more than the treehouses!