Saturday, September 7, 2019

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!

1 comment:

  1. 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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