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The Morris arboretum is a wonderful botanical garden located in a suburb of Philadelphia. Amongst plant lovers it is particularly well known for some of the oldest, most magnificent specimen trees to be found anywhere in this country. Unfortunately, even trees in a botanical garden are toppled by weather, tire of old age, or are weakened by disease. When the Arboretum lost some of it's oldest trees CitiLog was called in to help memorialize them.
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| You can see the variety of woods in the stacks of lumber. You can also see the care we take in handling the wood we mill. This wood is headed for a unique new building project at the Arboretum. |
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These trees have not died. They will live on for generations to come, mounted on a wall as the works of art that they are. These stacks of lumber are in a way - priceless. Nothing but this wood can show the history of these trees. Many were planted before World War II. They grew through decades of boom times and turbulent times. In their rings lies the story of decades of weather. They were admired by thousands. They could of ended up as mulch or firewood, instead they will live on, they will educate and amaze, they will inspire - and at CitiLog we are proud to a part of their repurposing. |
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| The new Horticultural Center houses offices, workspaces, maintenance equipment and an Education Center where the "Living Wall" utilizes the upcycled wood. |
These "Living Walls" separate the office space from the hallway. They are made of the wood that CitiLog milled for the Arboretum from the trees that once stood at the building site and others from the Arboretum that were damaged to the point that they had to come down. |
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In these wood slices lie the rings that tell the history of the trees, and the environment they grew in. This wood could so easily have been mulch or firewood - but CitiLog keeps that from happening. These slices will educate and amaze countless generations to come. We Give Trees New Life is not just our motto - it is a reality at places like The Morris Arboretum. |
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