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Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens: Your Gifts at Work

Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens is a non-profit organization and relies on the generosity and support of its many friends – individuals, corporations and foundations – to provide the financial resources that are vital to the care, preservation and improvements to the arboretum’s horticultural collections; enhancements to its educational programming for kids, adults and families; and the overall maintenance and upkeep of its facilities.  Your contribution to the Bartlett Arboretum helps to support the following:

Education

The Bartlett Arboretum provides a wide range of hands-on educational opportunities ranging from after-school programs and summer nature camps for kids to master gardening and horticulture classes for the adult learner.   It also offers seasonal art exhibits, lectures, concerts and other cultural events – all open to the public.

Living Museum of Unusual and Unique Plants

The arboretum’s 91 acres of specimen plants, beautifully managed gardens and wooded trails are open and accessible to the public every day of the year.  As a living museum of woody plants, Bartlett Arboretum displays gardens and landscapes that focus on the regional plants, ecology and character of Southwestern New England.  Through the management and design of its collections, the Arboretum provides the public with an opportunity to experience life in an environmentally responsible manner, in harmony with the natural world.

Located in the historic and beautiful Bartlett family homestead, the Visitors’ Center offers information on the arboretum’s trails and activities in addition to an extensive botanical resource library.  Central to the arboretum’s mission is to provide the people with opportunities for hands-on education, cultural growth, enjoyment and recreation.

The Master Plan and Our Future

The Bartlett Arboretum Board of Directors completed a long-range master plan for the arboretum’s programs, grounds and facilities.  These plans include strategies to enhance its educational programs and services; rebuild and improve the arboretum’s existing visitor and classroom facilities; maintain and expand its botanical collections; and focus the arboretum’s mission well into this century.

Gifts to the arboretum help to advance all of these initiatives and more.