Garden tours of UNL’s Earl G. Maxwell Arboretum are being offered from noon to 1 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month through the summer. The tours are led by Emily Levine, special projects research horticulturist with the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and former grounds supervisor for the arboretum. They are free and […]

Due to popular demand, UNL Gardens’ informal walking tours of the Earl G. Maxwell Arboretum on East Campus have been extended through the summer. The tours, free and open to the public, are offered on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, noon to 1 p.m. The tours are led by Emily Levine, special […]

Levine to lead weekly tours of arboretum It’s been a long cold winter in Nebraska. To break away from cabin fever, UNL Gardens is sponsoring a series of informal spring walking tours in the Earl G. Maxwell Arboretum on East Campus. Throughout the season, the arboretum goes through rapid changes. These tours, noon to 1 […]

Emily Levine, special projects research horticulturist with Agronomy and Horticulture, will lead a walking tour of the Maxwell Arboretum from noon to 1 p.m., Sept. 30. The tour, which is free and open to the public, begins northeast of the Dairy Store. The tour theme is “Harvesting the Landscape: Fruit and Nut Trees of Maxwell […]

Levine creates online presence for arboretum Emily Levine has rolled her love for plants and history into a new Web site dedicated to campus gardens. The UNL Gardens site, http://unlgardens.unl.edu, offers information primarily on the Maxwell Arboretum. Anchored by photos of campus plantings, the site outlines prime bloom times, plant and tree types and locations […]