Arboretum Donations
Thank you to our generous donors for the following contributions to our Arboretum;
Tree ID | Common Name | Date Planted | Botanical Name | Donor |
1-33-1 | Sugar Maple | Spring 2005 | Acer saccharum | Donated by the Garden Club of America in recognition of their national conference in Kansas City in 2005 |
7-1-18 | Redbud | Spring 2010 | Cercis canadensis | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
7-1-19 | Redbud | Spring 2010 | Cercis canadensis | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
7-3-2 | Whitebud | Fall 1987 | Cercis canadensis alba | Donated by the Westport Garden Club |
9-1-2 | Yellowwood | 1970 | Cladrastis kentukea | Donated by Dr. Henderson and The American Iris Society |
14b-1-1 | Franklin Tree | 43983 | Franklinia alatamaha | Donated by Ken O’Dell and Jim Earnest, volunteers of the Overland Park Arboretum |
15-3-1 | White Ash | 1969 | Fraxinius americana | This tree was selected, propagated, patented, and donated by Evertt Asjes. |
25-10-1 | Butterflies Magnolia | Spring 2003 | Magnolia acuminata x M. denudata | Planted as part of the Martha Shipman, wife of the first Linda Hall Library Director, memorial planting. |
25-10-2 | Butterflies Magnolia | Spring 2003 | Magnolia acuminata x M. denudata | Planted as part of the Martha Shipman, wife of the first Linda Hall Library Director, memorial planting. |
25-11-1 | Ann Magnolia | Sring 2003 | Magnolia liliflora x stellata | Planted as part of the Martha Shipman, wife of the first Linda Hall Library Director, memorial planting. |
25-11-2 | Ann Magnolia | Sring 2003 | Magnolia liliflora x stellata | Planted as part of the Martha Shipman, wife of the first Linda Hall Library Director, memorial planting. |
26-11-1 | Flowering Crab | Fall 2010 | Malus ‘Cardinal’ | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
26-11-3 | Flowering Crab | Fall 2010 | Malus ‘Cardinal’ | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
26-11-4 | Flowering Crab | Fall 2010 | Malus ‘Cardinal’ | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
26-10-4 | Flowering Crab | Spring 2010 | Malus ‘Louisa | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
26-10-2 | Flowering Crab | Spring 2010 | Malus ‘Louisa’ | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
26-10-3 | Flowering Crab | Spring 2010 | Malus ‘Louisa’ | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
26-10-5 | Flowering Crab | Spring 2010 | Malus ‘Louisa’ | Planted as part of the Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, Memorial Grove. |
26-8-1 | Flowering Crab | Spring 1988 | Malus ‘Robinson’ | Donated by the Westport Garden Club as a memorial for Fancis W. Bartlett, the last surviving member of the original Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees. |
26b-1-1 | Dawn Redwood | Spring 2010 | Metasequoia glyptostroboides | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
26b-1-2 | Dawn Redwood | Spring 2010 | Metasequoia glyptostroboides | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
26b-1-3 | Dawn Redwood | Spring 2010 | Metasequoia glyptostroboides | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
28-1-3 | Black gum, Tupelo | 31503 | Nyssa sylvatica | Donated by the Westport Garden Club |
49-3-2 | Arts Blue Scotch Pine | Spring 1989 | Pinus sylvestris | Donated by the Westport Garden Club as part of the memorial planting for Evert Asjes, founder of Rosehill Gardens. |
49-3-3 | Arts Blue Scotch Pine | Spring 1989 | Pinus sylvestris | Donated by the Westport Garden Club as part of the memorial planting for Evert Asjes, founder of Rosehill Gardens. |
49-3-4 | Arts Blue Scotch Pine | Spring 1989 | Pinus sylvestris | Donated by the Westport Garden Club as part of the memorial planting for Evert Asjes, founder of Rosehill Gardens. |
34-1-2 | White Oak | Spring 1995 | Quercus alba | Planted as a memorial for Thomas Gilles, Linda Hall Library’s second Director. |
34-39-1 | Crimson Spire Oak | 37530 | Quercus alba x Q. robur | Planted as a memorial to C. Humbert, a Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member, and Julia Tinsman, a Westport Garden Club member. |
34-5-3 | Scarlet Oak | Spring 2004 | Quercus coccinea | Donated by the Westport Garden Club as a memorial for Dwight Sutherland, a Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member and Chairman. |
34-37-2 | Daimyo Oak | Fall 2010 | Quercus dentata | Planted in honor of Collen Hansen, Nancy Day and Gayle VanAuken, long time members of the Linda Hall Library staff, on the occasion of their retirement. |
34-37-4 | Daimyo Oak | Fall 2010 | Quercus dentata | Planted in honor of Collen Hansen, Nancy Day and Gayle VanAuken, long time members of the Linda Hall Library staff, on the occasion of their retirement. |
40-1-2 | Baldcypress | Fall 2009 | Taxodium distichum | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
40-1-3 | Baldcypress | Fall 2009 | Taxodium distichum | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
40-1-4 | Baldcypress | Fall 2009 | Taxodium distichum | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
40-1-5 | Baldcypress | Fall 2009 | Taxodium distichum | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
40-2-1 | Weeping Baldcypress | Fall 2009 | Taxodium distichum | Planted as part of the Siegfried Ruschin, Linda Hall Library Head of Collections Department, Memorial Grove. |
44-4-2 | Lacebark Elm | Fall 2010 | Ulmus parvifolia | Donated by Dody Gates as a memorial planting for Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member. |
44-4-4 | Lacebark Elm | 40878 | Ulmus parvifolia | Donated by Dody Gates as a memorial planting for Lathrop Mead Gates, Linda Hall Library Board of Trustees member. |