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    -- Groundcover, vines

    -- Evergreens

    -- Trees

    -- Shrubs

    -- Other

 

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Campus Tree Tour

  --  Tree Tour Podcast

 

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    -- Campus Gardens

    -- Virtual Garden

    -- Azalea Garden

Titan Arum images

 

Plant Image Index

Thut Greenhouse Tour

Thut Slide Presentation

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Last Update:

06/19/2008

 

Virtual Garden Home Page

Welcome to the Department of Biological Sciences Virtual Gardens home page.  Here you will find information and images regarding local gardens as well as selected links to information and images available at other universities and commercial enterprises.

 

Bio 3312 egarden

   -- Information and images for the department's horticulture class.

 

Booth Library Archives

    -- Do you want to see what Eastern's campus looked like in 1902?  Did you know that McAfee Gym was built in Lake Ahmoweenah?  Here are some images from Booth Library archives that can give you an idea of what our campus looked like over the first fifty years.

 

EIU Campus Tree Tour

    -- Specimen trees on the campus of Eastern Illinois University, a walking tour.

    -- If you have an iPod or similar portable audio device, try our campus tree tour podcast.

 

Local Gardens and Plants

    -- Here you will find images of gardens and plants found both on and off campus.

        -- Campus gardens

        -- Take a virtual garden walk through a local garden.

        -- Azalea garden between the Thut Greenhouse and Life Science Building (ca. 1970s)

 

Plant Image Index

    -- An alphabetical listing of local garden plant specimen images.

 

Thut Greenhouse Tour

    -- Built in 1962, the H.F. Thut Greenhouse serves as the Biological Science Department’s botanical conservatory and as a facility for growing plants for research and classroom use. The 3400 square foot building is located next to the Life Sciences Building on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. The greenhouse has eight rooms. Visit each room by clicking on the respective link.

 

Thut Slide Presentation

    -- On November 14, 1973, Dr. Hiram. F. Thut, Professor Emeritus of Botany, gave as his final talk to the Botany Club, a program entitled E.I.U.: Then and Now. The "then" slides went back 40 years and more, and even some of the "now" slides look strange today. David Murphy of the Botany Department recognized the historical interest of this program and taped it. After Dr. Thut’s death the following year, Mr. Murphy worked with Mrs. Thut to locate the slides and copy them during the summer of 1978 so that the entire presentation has been preserved. This slide presentation has been put on this web site for your viewing pleasure.

 

Horticultural information and image links:

North Carolina State University Urban Horticulture

Ohio State University WebGarden

Texas A&M University Vascular Plant Image Library

University of Connecticut Plant Database

University of Illinois Extension Hort Corner

Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery

Illinois Natural History Survey Gallery of Illinois Plants

The Nature Conservancy Wildland Invasive Species Initiative

Dave's Garden Plant Database

USDA National Plant Database

HortNet
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