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.
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.
Cross sections of the wood will be mounted on a wall so visitors can see the age, structure and variety of trees that once stood on the grounds.
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 throughs 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.
