FONA Field Notes

We’re excited to see you this Saturday, December 10th for our annual Winter Festival. A portion of every purchase directly supports FONA — thank you for supporting us this holiday! This event…

Join us this Saturday, December 3rd from 10 AM to 4 PM for our Christmas Tree Sale! Buy Christmas trees, wreaths, and garlands at this weekend’s event. A portion of your purchase…

We are extremely grateful to all our FONA members! Their stalwart support allows us to be so successful in connecting people to the National Arboretum. We are particularly grateful for…

To show our appreciation for our colleagues at the Arboretum, FONA hosted a BBQ this week for Arboretum staff, volunteers, and stakeholders. FONA Executive Director Craven Rand is a native…

Christmas trees, wreaths, and garlands are now available for pre-order! You can pick up your reserved tree and greenery at our Christmas Tree Sale on December 3rd or the Winter Festival on December 10th. Or…

Members of the Arboretum’s Germplasm and Gardens Units recently planted an orchard of Magnolia ashei in the Flowering Tree Collection. While this species is endangered and only found in the Florida panhandle,…

Dr. Richard T. Olsen, the U.S. National Arboretum’s Director, recently sat down with WUSA9 TV to discuss fall foliage at the National Arboretum and the Arboretum’s environmental initiatives and research projects.

Buy Christmas trees, wreaths, and garlands at our Christmas Tree Sale. This event will only sell holiday greenery and will happen a week before our Winter Festival on December 10th.

The National Arboretum sits on land in the Chesapeake Bay watershed along the Anacostia River and near the Potomac River. This land was shaped over hundreds of millions of years by the…

Helia Bravo-Hollis was a prominent botanist from Mexico in the first half of the 20th century, and devoted 60 years of her life to the study of biology. Her research…