[ The Elmhurst College Arboretum ]

About the Online Arboretum

This site illustrates and celebrates our campus arboretum. With its astonishing plant variety, the Elmhurst College Arboretum is an institutional asset of surpassing value, and an inspiring environment for learning and growth.

• You can click here to learn more about Herb Licht, the College's friend and neighbor whose vision planted the arboretum at Elmhurst and nurtured it through its early years.
• This link will tell you about Ragnar Moen, the College's groundkeeper who became the foster father of Licht's arboretum.
• To learn about new green building and landscaping projects that are extending the arboretum's spirit into the 21st Century, follow this link.
• And our interactive map will take you on virtual tour of the arboretum, with pictures, botanical data, stories and history of more than 100 of the campus's most awe-inspiring and interesting trees.
  
• You can also browse the most significant collections by clicking this link.
  
• Lastly, if you'd like to get involved in the arboretum, contact the Office of Development here.