Garden Detective: 5 arboretums to visit in winter
Photo credit: Daniel Brennan | An American Elm tree dominates the courtyard in between administrative buildings near the arboretum on the LIU Post campus in Brookville. (Dec. 27, 2011)
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Winter at Long Island's arboretums
Your own garden may be looking bleak right about now, and with summer a distant memory, you might think there's nothing more to do than pine for spring. Au contraire: Long Island's arboretums beckon.
Although many arboretums boast flower gardens during spring and summer, those are incidental to their raison d'être. By definition, an arboretum is a collection of trees, shrubs and woody plants...
