Nannen Arboretum
The Nannen Arboretum is an arboretum and botanical garden located at 28 Parkside Drive, Ellicottville, New York. It is nonprofit and open to the public. The arboretum was organized in 1976 and contains over 250 species of trees, shrubs, flowers, and herbs. It includes several Japanese gardens, a pond with fish, a large herb garden, and nature walks. The Nannen Arboretum was affiliated with the Cornell Cooperative Extension prior to 2013, at which time the arboretum was transferred to the Town of Ellicottville. See also * List of botanical gardens in the United States This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.
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Arboretum
An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, many modern arboreta are in botanical gardens as living collections of woody plants and is intended at least in part for scientific study. In Latin, an ''arboretum'' is a place planted with trees, not necessarily in this specific sense, and "arboretum" as an English word is first recorded used by John Claudius Loudon in 1833 in ''The Gardener's Magazine'', but the concept was already long-established by then. An arboretum specializing in growing conifers is known as a pinetum. Other specialist arboreta include saliceta (willows), populeta (Populus, poplar), and querceta (oaks). Related collections include a fruticetum, from the Latin ''frutex'', meaning ''shrub'', much more often a shrubbery, and a viticetum (from the Latin ''vitis,'' meani ...
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