The grounds surrounding the Joslyn Castle included an urban farm, vegetable gardens and over 100 fruit trees.jpg, The grounds surrounding the Joslyn Castle included an urban farm, vegetable gardens and over 100 fruit trees The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum is a network of nearly 100

arboreta 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, man ...

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

s, parks, and other public landscapes in 56 communities across

Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...

, and supported by the arboretum office at the

University of Nebraska A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, ...

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United Sta ...

. The arboretum was founded in 1978 as a partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and is an affiliate of the

Center for Plant Conservation The Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) is a not-for-profit organization consisting of a network with more than 50 institutions. The mission is to conserve and restore the rare native plants of the United States and Canada. CPC represents a netwo ...

. The Nebraska Statewide Arboretum promotes and sells native plants as part of a goal to create environmentally-sustainable landscapes across the state. Some of its larger collections include sites at Omaha's Metropolitan Community College at

Fort Omaha Fort Omaha, originally known as Sherman Barracks and then Omaha Barracks, is an Indian War-era United States Army supply installation. Located at 5730 North 30th Street, with the entrance at North 30th and Fort Streets in modern-day North Omaha, ...

Joslyn Castle The George and Sarah Joslyn Home (officially named "Lynhurst," and known locally as Joslyn Castle), is a mansion located at 3902 Davenport Street in the Gold Coast Historic District of Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Built in the Scottish Baron ...

, Swanson Science Park, the Blair Community Arboretum (Steyer Park, Black Elk Park, and the

Dana College Dana College was a private college in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150-acre (607,000 m²) campus is approximately 26 miles (40 km) northwest of Omaha and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley. The campus was planned to be purchase ...

campus),

Gilman Park Arboretum Gilman Park Arboretum, consisting of 14 acres (57,000 m2), is an arboretum in Pierce, Nebraska. The Arboretum was established in 1993, and features 647 woody plants, including 243 different labeled varieties of trees and shrubs, and more than eigh ...

Pierce Pierce may refer to: Places Canada * Pierce Range, a mountain range on Vancouver Island, British Columbia United States * Pierce, Colorado * Pierce, Idaho * Pierce, Illinois * Pierce, Kentucky * Pierce, Nebraska * Pierce, Texas * Pierce, We ...

, and Clemmons Park Arboretum in Fremont.

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Nebraska Statewide Arboretum

Nebraska Forest Service
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