The Himalayan pine grows tall, and marks history, at the Riverview Cemetery in New Jersey:
https://riverviewcemetery.blogspot.com/2017/09/himalayan-pine-or-pinus-wallichiana.html
A good place to see the Himalayan pine right next to the eastern white pine (these two species look quite similar), is at 42nd and Spruce, in Philadelphia:
https://growinghistory.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/the-spruce-street-swamps/
Thomas Meehan was fundamental to horticulture, botany, landscapes, and parks here in Philadelphia, and elsewhere. Ken LeRoy recently came across Meehan’s burial site in Blue Bell, PA and took these photos:
Photo by Ken LeRoy
Photo by Ken LeRoy
And here is an image of the sign at the churchyard:
Photo by Ken LeRoy
To read more about Thomas Meehan, see here:
https://growinghistory.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/some-history-of-historic-plants/
And to read about what is likely the last landscape that he worked on, see here:
https://growinghistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/the-yard-of-the-wagner-free-institute/
There is a rich history that resides in biological collections, such as herbaria – and discoveries, as well – as Don Pfister, the Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium, discusses here:
As a local note, Shortia (or Oconee bells) is planted at Whitesbog, where it was flowering this past April, in the bog next to Suningive.
On the evening of Thursday the 25th of May, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly meeting, and Ned Barnard and Catriona Briger, co-authors of Philadelphia Trees: A Field Guide to the City and the Surrounding Delaware Valley, will talk about their book, in a lecture titled “Trees of Philadelphia”.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
The history of plants is also underground, and not just in the roots:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Wooden-water-mains-Spruce-Street-May-2017.html
A very much older tree was also found underground not far from there, a number of decades ago:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112143#page/142/mode/1up
To read more about that, see here (Chapter 1): http://fitlersquarepress.com/chapters/
On the evening of Thursday the 27th of April, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly meeting, and Anton Reznicek, of the University of Michigan Herbarium and co-author of the Field Manual of the Michigan Flora, will talk about botanical history, in a lecture titled “The Beginnings of Botany in Michigan: From Thomas Nuttall (1810) to the Douglass Houghton Era (1830-1840)”.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
Ken Frank will be giving a talk, on Thursday the 6th of April, at the Philadelphia Ethical Society (1906 South Rittenhouse Square), on the Ecology of Rittenhouse Square, beginning at 7:30PM. For more information, see here:
To read more about the Ecology of Center City, Philadelphia, see here:
http://fitlersquarepress.com/ecology-of-center-city-philadelphia/
