 Good good afternoon. Good afternoon So some of you have been here with me now for for five. This is the sixth of the n150 Nebraska lectures this year I was just about to brag that I thought I finally had it had the microphone right, but you could see I Kind of lost it there for a minute This is our sixth now out of 12 and of course we'll look forward to having with you At each of these we hope you'll bring some more of your friends as we move in through the the year Celebrate the university's 150th anniversary The goal of the chancellor's distinguished chant lecture series is is to really to bring a lot of people together in to discuss important topics To learn in this case in some cases to learn about the history of the university or the And how it informs what we're going to do as we look into the future and the The presentations I give us a chance to highlight some of the very best of the faculty and the staff now that we have Involved with interdisciplinary research and with creative activity here at the University of Nebraska Lincoln The this lecture series is sponsored by the UNL Research Council And it's in cooperation with the office of the chancellor and also of course my organization the office of research and economic development And if in as well the usher lifelong learning Institute, which we call Ali I know we've got some Ali members here with us today. I always want to And I also my friend Chris summerick is just back here and With humanities Nebraska the executive director Chris has helped of course his organization is also a big sponsor for this year's lectures and As well, we've had additional support from the national endowment of the humanities which is supporting both our expanded series So 12 instead of two lectures this year and also with the grant We've been able to create podcasts of all of the presentations And we have them both archived for for historical purposes and also to make them available to audiences at large I Especially want to recognize the university's research council it includes faculty from all ranges of disciplines across the across the campus and For these lectures the council does the heavy lifting They solicit proposals from our faculty and nominations They make assessment and they really try to choose what they think will be the very best topics And they they they use their familiarity with our faculty to make sure that we have the very best Presenters so no pressure here today. I leave I also want to to welcome our listeners and our viewers who are Seeing this from live Web stream on web on Facebook live So we're glad to have you with us here today And I want to just get get moving here, but before I stop talking Let me just talk a little bit about the format So we're gonna have the lecture. It's gonna be great and then afterwards Nathan Meyer who is our assistant vice-chancellor for research Nathan's around here somewhere. I know over here. He's going to join Eileen again up at the stage and help to moderate a question and answer session So there'll be plenty of time for some discussion questions answers after the presentation and then at finally at the end My my role here my my key role brought me here to Nebraska as I am the prize master So we have prizes Well, at least a prize. We have a prize for the audience at the end and we'll have one lucky winner and Dear old Nebraska so Be coming up coming up at the end We'll also have some reception activity at the end and did I hear right Mike is this This is the time that we'll have Dairy Dairy store ice cream. There you go. So another prize for all of you. Well with that I'll just say you want to stay around you've got to be here to win So stay for the end and with that I want to welcome Richard Moeberly Our interim executive vice-chancellor for academic affairs who will now introduce our speaker Thanks Bob So it's my pleasure to welcome you to today's Nebraska lecture featuring Eileen Bird Landscape architect and assistant director of landscape services if you've attended our N 150 lectures this year You know that many of them have focused on the university and state history and today Eileen will describe how our campus Landscape has transformed from initial plantings around University Hall to modern green spaces that sprawl nearly 700 acres Whether you work at the university or simply enjoy visiting campus the beauty of our green spaces is something we can all appreciate And admire We're also fortunate to have a number of local gardening enthusiasts who've worked hard to make our gardens beautiful and ensure They serve as educational tools for anyone who visits campus placards show the Latin name plus the common name of a variety of plants and Whether you stop to admire the Husker red Penstemon in June or the stark beauty of prairie grasses blanketed in snow You'll find native species and thriving ecosystems during all four seasons Eileen grew up on her family's farm near Skyler, Nebraska She earned her bachelor's degree from Nebraska where a class and outdoor site planning helped inspire her future career She worked for the engineering and design firm Clark Anderson partners and earned a master's degree from Kansas State Before getting smart and returning to the university in 1999 to lead landscape services So please join me in welcoming Eileen who will present growing a campus landscapes at the University of Nebraska Thank you Thank you. It is an honor to be here To share with you these photos and stories about the campus gardens and how they've grown Many of the images are from the university archives the university Archives were a great resource for this presentation. I also used a notebook that we had at landscape services that documented the history of the gardens Landscape services is a department within facilities maintenance and operations Which is a division of business and finance? Landscape services is the department that plants and plumes the trees We plant shrubs flowers. We mow the grass and we also pick up litter on all 617 acres of the campus both city and east campus We also install and maintain the irrigation systems Empty trash and recycling dumpsters. We plow and scoop this in all in the winter So next winter when you're getting ready to go to work and you think about You can think about landscape services employees and how they've already almost put in a full day of work With starting at two or three anymore Two or three in the morning so that they can clean the sidewalks and have it ready for you when you get to campus My my presentation will cover the early history of the landscapes the influencers of the campus landscape and then some significant trees This is Lincoln in 1869 when the University of Nebraska opened its doors to 20 college students in about 110 Latin school students University Hall was located in the raw prairie This is University Hall in 1773 I'm the population of Lincoln at that time was 8,000 On March 17th 1886 Charles Bessie wrote a letter to the Board of Regents to request funds to plant at the botanical garden He wanted to plant 50 to 100 species of plants this season in the flower beds around the main building Which was University Hall and the vacant spaces in the lot assigned to trees and shrubs He thought a hundred and fifty dollars would be significant for or sufficient for him to use He also requested temporary walks be installed around the chemical building He said that temporary walks must be provided as the grounds are in a condition that after it rains It is impossible to reach either entrance without waiting through a great deal of mud He requested 10 or $15 for a temporary walks He also thought that the hedge surrounding the campus was compact enough to turn cattle away Therefore, he remarked he recommended that as much of the board fence be taken down And if the board approved that he already had some funds from the last appropriation the year before So then in June 1886 he also wrote another letter to the Board of Regents To update them on the trees and shrubs that were planted that spring and fall He said that the plants had done very well a few plants Perished during the fall and winter the rabbits injured some of the small trees Cattle and horses broke down several boys playing football upon the campus crushed down some and Two little trees were stolen These losses however were not didn't amount to more than a small percentage And he probably thought that was about what he might have expected We still have those issues today with rabbits stolen trees Damaged during football games and some other items too that happened on campus Around 1903 15 years later This photo was taken and now we have a significant amount of trees on campus Old Main is just off to the wide sidewalk area Shrubs and ornamental plants had been planted at that time a perimeter fence was installed around the campus in 1892 This fence was an attempt to beautify the campus along with paving the walks and adding more plants on campus This is one of the gates in the fence and the fence was removed in 1922 For several reasons one was because there was a fire in one of the buildings and the fire trucks couldn't get to the building and There also was the campus was expanding and so they didn't have enough fence to go around it so they took it they took the fence down and it was installed at why you could cemetery and Thinking back about it. I thought okay that fence is a hundred and twenty seven years old You don't think about that when you drive Y on O Street a Section of the fence was kept and the two and two gates were reinstalled by the columns Which is on North 12th Street at the top of the gate is a casting of the university seal That's right in this location at some point both of the seals were stolen and One was there for a long time and then as Prices for scrap metal went up we lost that one And so we asked the university art department to make us new seals and we put them back up on the gates The columns were installed in 1930 This photo is from 1949 and vines were allowed to grow up the columns These columns came from the Burlington railroad station in Omaha, which was designed by Thomas Kimball The Burlington station was to be remodeled in 1929 and the columns were surplused George C. Myer who was a former region Was had an interest in campus planning and he worked to get the columns transferred by train to Lincoln The shaft of the main section of the columns is all one piece And it's all pink granite Most columns on buildings are in barrels and they stack together and these were all one piece, which is very significant These columns stand today on the terminus of 12th Street Mall There are two rows of 12 columns for a total of 24 columns There are four more columns that are not in this section that are over on the south side of the stadium in the Dedication area to the football coaches Devaney and Osborne They're the same columns as these a Few years back landscape services was asked to remove the vines on the columns so that they could be inspected After we had the vines off the columns we we noticed that they were much more visible I was walking with my brother one day I'm going to a football game and he graduated here from the university We were walking down the 12th Street Mall and he said to me when did they put those up? So he didn't even know that they were there because they were covered with vines This is the Seymour plan. This is an early master plan of campus the Seymour plan was for it was made to expand the campus and Was developed under the leadership of the president of the Board of Regents, which was George Seymour in 1926 this plan generally brought us Memorial Mall Which is the mall that's by the stadium? It also brought us this green space By the libraries Which they called the quadrangle and it also brought us Greek row Street closures and vistas were also a main component of this plan and this plan was generally used for 25 years Here's Memorial Mall This at this time it was called John Jay purging parade grounds and it was located on access with this the football stadium in 1931 a campus beautification plan was announced in the Neuraskan and this old drill field Which had its walks and cinder plant paths cut across it was to become a new central Mall and The mall was to be 50 feet wide With two openings on 14th Street for an increased traffic The 50-foot width was provided so that they could have additional parking on S and T streets the area in the middle of the mall was to be graded to drain and It was to be planted with grass This area remained turf until the late 1990s when Chancellor Mizer added parking to the mall To compensate for the loss of parking when the Kauffman residential center was built It was to be a two-year temporary parking lot And there was a sign that we put up on the parking lot sign that said temporary. It was pretty big and At some point that temporary sign came down But the parking lot still there There are plans to make that green again. It's we're in the phasing plan of that right now Here's a view of Memorial Mall in the foreground So you can see now it's turned into a turf area and this is from about 1940s The buildings on this picture are Morrill Hall, which was built in 1927, which is this building To the left of that. This is Bessie and then Love libraries at the background, which was built in 1941 and you can see the front the front of the building was to the north Originally with the columns on it and there's also an unextracted view of the Nebraska State Capitol building Which was building which was finished in 1932? Mueller Tower wasn't built yet in this photo here's a photo from Commencement that was held on that Memorial Mall From August of 1962 so some of the people that influenced the campus landscape Charles Bessie Dr. Charles Bessie he came to the unit to the university in 1884 and was the dean of the industrial college He built a strong botany department and contributed Significantly to the industrial college, which became the egg Department he studied Nebraska grasses and Native and any plants that would grow in Nebraska This is a graduation photo with Old Main in the background Dr. Charles Bessie played a large part in developing the first arboretum on City campus He was probably instrumental in planning many of these trees He's standing in the middle of the photo right next to this tree right here on East campus in June of 1886 Bessie wanted to create an arboretum and he and Ralph Emerson worked on the design Emerson was a student of Bessie's and then became a horticulture professor This was the plan for the arboretum on East campus on the corner of 33rd and Holdridge So Holdridge streets at the bottom and 33rd streets over here on the right So it is the site right now where Hardin Hall stands Bessie in a letter to the Board of Regents Requested to plant this arboretum He wanted 10 to 15 acres on the west side of the farm for planting of forest trees and that later We make Plantation along the little stream that runs near the north boundary The details of the plan were not yet worked out but by the time of the next board meeting a comprehensive plan and Details will enable you to take steps toward his accomplishments. He wrote in the letter and Bessie's arboretum was actually planted in the early 1900s and The curved sidewalks you can see on this plan. This is Bessie's arboretum down here and You can see where the plantings Were installed along with the sidewalks A few of these very few of these trees remain today From his arboretum in the building of what is now Hardin Hall This super superb collection of trees on East campus was lost to bulldozers During the construction of the continuing education Center Trees were marked to be saved and it was misinterpreted by the contractor to be removed So all the trees that were marked they removed So the wrong trees were taken out This is the documentation that talks about the first trees that were planted on East campus It occurred on April 22nd, 1909 This list is 17 pin oak trees that were planted on the Mall in observance of Arbor Day Memorial trees were planted for significant University in the city officials including J. Sterling Morton The father of Arbor Day governor Schellenberger and Chancellor Avery None of these original trees remain today, but we have new oak trees planted Along the mall so trees do line that mall today William H. Dunman Influenced the landscape of campus This is a postcard of mr. Dunman's work on the Mall on East campus In 1909 Regent Copeland traveled to Colorado Springs and was visiting the soldier's home and saw the landscape there and Thought of all the possibilities that could happen on the campus landscape He convinced mr. Dunman Who was working there to come to Nebraska? Dunman was a native of England and he was a gardener at the Sandringham Palace one of the King's palaces He struggled working with Nebraska soils and the irregular setting and design of the buildings that Managed but he managed to make one of the most beautiful campuses for its size according to Charles Bessie in 1911 and in 1911 mr. Dunman had six men working with him Mr. Dunman was the landscape gardener from 1909 until his death in 1946 He worked on both campuses and Establish many trees shrubs and floral plantings his work was at its best around 1930 before the drought and the depression hit in 1931 mr. Dunman was on city campus and he was it was documented in the paper that he was planting around new buildings and projects So he seeded Memorial Mall and he planted around the social sciences Hall, which is Pound Hall and Teachers College, which is now Canfield North Trees that were planted included Shwedler maples Norway maples cut leaf weeping birch and two varieties of flowering crab trees Other trees planted included pinnokes, sycamore Linden's and Chinese Elms This is Another piece of Dunman's work. This is a postcard view of the entrance from 35th Street egg hall is in the background So this shows the ornamental plantings that he used Right at the entrance to East campus. This is dated from 1920 or in the 20s SW Perrin was hired to In 1889 to be the campus superintendent of the farm Parents family lived on campus in the Perrin house He devoted his work on the farm until his death in 1930 a half section of land known as the experimental farm was purchased in 1874 and That is is basically the boundary that we have today of East campus from Holdridge To Huntington Layton from 33rd to 48th Street. That's the half section so it so on the original property was the stone house and the barn in 1875 the Perrin house was built which is the larger house. So one year after they purchased the property The dormitory became the Perrin house where the family lives as well as rooms for students It was much like one big happy family in the house and the students called SW Perrin dad Perrin Here's another photo of the Perrin house This was the hub of activity on the farm a porch was added to the house which Mr. Dunmond built and Another photo a closer view and you can see the details on the porch These details were used to construct the replica of the porch today So on campus built in 1993 is This porch that is a replica of the original Perrin force Perrin house porch It was built on the site where the Perrin house was originally built Plantings around the house include lilac juniper's use and many plants that would have been planted at that time Tree peonies which are planted along the south side are really spectacular in the spring And this is a photo of when the tree peonies are blooming Earl Maxwell was also important for campus and Maxwell Arboretum is named after him He was an extension forester from 1934 to 1952 Most of the big trees that were planted by Maxwell When he established the area as a test plotting site called Maxwell Arboretum The wooden gazebo on the south entrance was built in memory of Carl Larch Who's an extension forester after Maxwell? So he started in 52 and ended in 1970 and here's a photo of the oak trees that are in the middle of Maxwell Arboretum that we think that Maxwell planted Here's the cottonwood tree thought to be also be planted by Earl Maxwell Trees are living elements and they eventually die or a storm destroys them So at landscape services, we like to propagate some of our significant trees So that these trees can live on so we have a new cottonwood tree planted on the edge on the north edge of Maxwell Arboretum and It's near the prairie It's from the from plants from the or from cuttings of the original tree And then I also wanted to mention about the bald cypress tree in Maxwell Arboretum It's located in the north part of the campus Or I mean of the Arboretum and it's it is the Nebraska State Champion bald cypress tree And this tree is native to southeastern US It typically grows in swampy areas, but it will grow here in our dry soils The look in the location where it's at it's along the creek and it's start it's starting to develop cypress and ease Which is where the roots come out of the ground and grow above the ground They're not very big in the swamps. They're a lot bigger, but where we have them It's very small, but you can go see them up next to the bank on the east side of this tree another person that influenced Campus was Bud Dazenbrock. He came to UNL in 1978 He also changed the campus significantly. He convinced administrators That what the campus looked like was a determining factor in why college students which Campus they chose to go to Bud was quoted in the Daily Nebraska in 1980 as saying That plants make a difference between a mediocre environment and one which you can be proud of He hoped that if the campus looked good the students would treat it with more respect and wouldn't litter or cut across the grass He also improved the staff with training and goal-setting in In 1980 6,000 trees were planted new trees were planted on both campuses. The emphasis was to plant on new sites and in parking lots native Nebraska plants were planted Because those were the ones that were better acclimated to the harsh environment of Nebraska But some exotic plants were also used in special locations Bud was instrumental in Designating all of both campuses as an arboretum the UNL botanical garden and arboretum which also became part of the Nebraska statewide arboretum one element of the botanical garden is that we plant many different plants on campus and That we also have a plant database which we still maintain today when Bud retired in 1997 We chose this tree which is outside of Hamilton and Old Father Hall To dedicate to him and there's a plaque there next to the tree. It's the classic shape oak tree and it was there before Hamilton and Manter Halls were built and Unfortunately the trunk is also buried on this tree because you can see that it doesn't have a flare at the bottom It just goes straight into the ground. Typically you have a flare at the bottom This tree is on the 1929 tree survey. So we know it's really old And again, we Propagated from this tree and we have a new burrow tree planted nearby closer to the woods building Now we're going to talk about the gardens. We'll start with city campus gardens We have about 14 named gardens on city and east campus the ones I'm going to talk about today our love garden, which is south of Love Library. So it's just south of where we are today kathar garden Which is on the west side of the Love Library north Donaldson garden Meyer commons and then and right garden and One thing that we need to think about is that these Roads used to all go through campus. So 14th or Street went through campus 12th Street went through campus s Street and T Street So first is love gardens. This was a photo taken around 1950 10 years before this 1940 Professor James Sellers protested that the downtown campus was the barren desert like open spaces Which was very different from the ag campus which had trees and mowed green spaces He questioned how a university with a college of agriculture in the Department of horticulture Justify this lack of planting within a few months the Lincoln Alumni Club began planting the landscape grounds around the new library Donald L. Love a banker in 1940 he left his estate of eight hundred thousand dollars to build Love Library and then in During the 40s with the support of the Cooper Foundation the floral displays at the south side of Love Library Were developed the gardens were planted in a formal design with privet hedges junipers and roses And these gardens later were changed to be perennial gardens, which is what we have today So that they would have interest all around interest during the summer as well as even in the winter The bed positioning is still the same where we have four beds that line the walks Four up on the close to the building and then four down closer to the R Street and the turf grass is all around it Here's an early photo of Workers doing handwork Probably preparing this area for seating in the front of Love Library and those are the beds beyond This is the green space north of Love Library Andrews Hall is in the background and here's Andrews This is where Catherine Donaldson Gardens are located today as well as the library There were temporary buildings plant or built here for the troops in around the 40s This is where you see S Street and T Street still going through campus and Then the parking on the side of the street Here's another view of that area so again, we have Love Library in the middle with Kupalo and then Which is what is called Pound Hall now, which used to be the CBA College of Business Administration in the foreground and This is the area north of there Which we have is a garden area and we can see all of these parking lots They took out the temporary buildings and they put in the parking lots So there's a lot of traffic right in the center of campus because of these parking lots So here's a view of 12th and R Street in 1946 pedestrian conflict We think we have issues today with bicycles and pedestrians, but there were issues with cars and pedestrians Today 12th Street is closed This so this area is closed off to traffic. This area is all the lead Plaza and Then our street turns into 12th Street at this intersection Here's a photo from the late 1960s This was taken from Love Library. You can see Burnett Hall in the background. This is Burnett and newly built Old Father and Hamilton Hall The old museum right here Which was built by Thomas or which was designed by Thomas Kimball? Unfortunately was torn down in 1970 that sits was sitting on where a Sheldon parking lot is today And then you can also see Ferguson Hall back here behind there an Article into the Daly Moreskin talked about how the crews were having a difficult time keeping up with the current building and construction changes There had been no new landscape projects for the past 10 years So from 65 to around 1975 and that the crews were trying to catch up the current staff in 1975 was about 30 or 40 was a few of them being students The grounds department was attempting to upgrade the campus by planting trees and shrubs to improve the landscape as much as possible Also was noted in the article Was that there was another area of landscape improvement that was done by planting two large evergreen trees in the parking lot West of the student union the main purpose of these trees was to eliminate the traffic problem in the lot The location of the trees made it necessary for cars to park in proper stalls. I Was trying to figure that out so West of the union there is a parking lot and there's one big evergreen tree in it and we planted that That tree was in it and there was a matching one on the other end of the of the 14th Street Mall So I went to our plant database and I looked up that tree and it was planted in 1976 so that is probably the tree that they were talking about here It's a Chinese pine. It's very low growing tree. I have to notice it. It's very nice This is Astrid. So the union this drop-off right here is to the union and the north side of the union and The parking lot over here. This is Selick and this parking lot was The one that turned into a green space later on Here's another view of that same parking lot. We were just looking at but now S. Street is closed so S Street which went through here is now the union Plaza and It's also has the original broy hill fountain in it. This parking lot and The one further north to it were the two last remaining parking lots in the center core of campus And then here is a view of the after that parking lot was removed around 1995 and this parking lot became green space Chancellor Spanier worked with the students to get them to agree to remove this parking lot and Create an open green space that could be used for student events The far parking lot was removed when the Kauffman Center was built These were the last two remaining parking lots in the center of campus and I mentioned earlier that this parking lot Was the one that was kind of moved to Memorial Mall at the time when This one went out. They added the parking as a temporary lot So in Ray garden This is Dorothy and right she lives in Houston and she's 97 years old and still going She is the wife of Lee and right a Landscape architect who conceived the project of the Catherine and right and Donaldson Gardens Around Love North While working and and right was working on the master plan for the campus at the time and right garden is located where Mueller Tower is and It's between Burnett and Andrews Hall and between moral and Bessie Hall Mrs. Ed right dedicated in right gardens in October 1976 For her late husband and she said that he would be honored to have this garden named for him Catherine Donaldson gardens were also dedicated at that same time This is the master plan that Lee and right helped with he was a landscape architect that worked for Caudill, Rowlett and Scott in Houston, Texas And he worked very closely with you know the university on this master plan for the firm The central campus core area had the gardens around the library were a focal point of the campus And they were designed to be an asymmetrical pattern to in to counterbalance the symmetry of the grid pattern of The surrounding buildings berms were added to make the design a pleasing effect Mr. And right Translated Carl Donaldson's vision for a beautiful campus into reality This was the last project that mr. Enright worked on and one that he took a deep personal as well as professional interest in Lee Enright and his wife Dorothy's only connection to the University, Nebraska was through his professional projects And Sheldon was built in 1961 and dedicated in 63 Phillip Johnson was the architect, but the sculpture garden was dedicated in 1970 and this was also designed by Caudill Rowlett and Scott of Houston, Texas With mr. Enright contributing to the design of this garden as well Enright garden as I mentioned is located between moral Hall and Bessie as you could see here with love library in the background and here's a photo of it with the the base at Enright garden at the base of the tower another view of Enright garden in the background with Graduation happening and the students walking towards the Coliseum where the graduation ceremony was held in The background is Mueller Tower and love library again and Enright garden with the criss-crossing walks Here's a current view of kathar garden kathar garden is located between pound hall and Burnett Hall, so pound hall is here and This is love library north edition kathar garden was conceived in the centennial year of kathar's birth So 1973 and was dedicated with the Enright and Donaldson gardens in 1976 a donation in memory of Johanna alibans and a grant from the Lincoln Garden Club also helped fund the planting for this garden Prior to it being used as a garden. It was a parking lot kathar garden was planted primarily with Nebraska native plants when we were working recently on the berm this berm. We've recently reworked We even chose some plants that were native to Webster County, which is where kathar was from This is a view of kathar garden soon after it was planted in 1976 this Nice truck, huh? So this is Donaldson garden and Myers common Donaldson garden is this area So this is teachers college, which is now canfield north It was named after Carl Donaldson and he was the university business manager emeritus Who and he's the one who had the vision for these gardens when they worked on the master plan and Donaldson garden is planted with introduced plants. I mentioned kathar was native Donaldson is introduced Myers column Myers commons, which is this area Was developed 20 years after Donaldson garden Earlier I showed a photo of this site as a parking lot The site is bounded by Kauffman, Selick Union Union Plaza and The Donaldson garden It was renamed and dedicated in July of 2008 as Meyer commons It was made possible with private support from Donald and Lorena Meyer of Illinois Over the years their family also provided numerous student scholarship and fellowship To benefit students in various academic areas Donald Meyer was from Oshkosh, Nebraska And he graduated from the University in 1941 in business administration and broadcasting He worked during school and had to take a year off to work to get through school So he wanted so he also provided support for scholarships for other students And he also wanted to associate his name with the space on campus that was very active and used by many students After school he worked for NBC and then he branched out on his own and produced many popular television shows including Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and Zoo Parade This is called University Plaza. It's a garden that was designed and constructed in 2011 At the location of the first campus building University Hall The space was made available when Ferguson Hall was raised the Cornelian granite stones That they're that the people are sitting on came from the same quarry as the stones in the Union Fountain And these came from Milbank, South Dakota The plaque on the vertical granite slab was on the south wall of Ferguson Hall and we moved it to this location When Ferguson was removed This plaque commemorates University Hall, which was built in 1869 and and raised in 1948 the people on the plaque on one side are dressed like 1869 on the left side and on the right side they're dressed like 1948 you'll have to go look at it. It's it's a nice plaque So the East Campus Gardens primarily we have Maxwell Arboretum, which encompasses a large area along the frontage and Then yider and Fleming in this area Maxwell Arboretum was named after Earl Maxwell and was dedicated in 1969 and the trees in the background is Maxwell Arboretum Maxwell Arboretum is the flagship Arboretum for the Nebraska State Road Arboretum, which was established in 1978 And then yider garden in the foreground is a large perennial display bed Located just east of the dairy store on East Campus Clayton yider dedicated this garden to his late wife Clayton wasn't a was a Nebraska alum and also the secretary of agriculture So there's a statue of him located near the garden Fleming slope is the garden that's created on the bank when The dairy store was created the building in the background had a higher elevation than the grade next to it So there's a slow as his bank. They're a slope. So this was Dedicated to the Fleming brothers in 1994 to honor them the brothers are in the front of this photo The Lincoln Garden Club provided funding for the garden to honor James Robert and David Fleming Who were Lincoln's premier hybridizers of Hardy hibiscus or Heidi Hardy perennials from the 40s till the 1990s They were known for developing hibiscus Dianthus and chrysanthemums as well as many other perennials I'm gonna talk a few about a few significant trees on campus This is the 1929 survey that I referred to before all of the dots on this plan are trees that were Documented by Walter Blankman. It's from 1929 and The list of trees. There's 30 different or 39 different trees And we still have some of these trees today This tree right here is a cat, oh my things Yeah, it's not monitoring, but anyway, so there's a katalpa. There's a pine. We'll go through them So there's an English oak that's over by Westbrook And that tree again doesn't have a trunk flare So we think that it was buried and was there before Westbrook was built the Austrian pine that's over by Woods Hall was on that survey documented to be there and this would have been in front of University Hall at the time the kathar tree Was this tree was is an Austrian pine that was dedicated to Willow kathar who was from the class of 1895 and We can see this this is also on the 1929 survey But it's also shows up in this picture where this Double trunk is a still the same tree that we see there today This is a view of University Hall on a graduation day the Schiller Linden tree is Is a new tree Lawrence Fossler was the professor of German language at the University of Nebraska from 1889 to 1926 he was born in Germany and immigrated to the US in 1872 at the age of 15 Fossler dedicated the tree to Schiller and the plaque is written in German and it says the great poet and thinker It was dedicated on May 9th 1905 The tree became very large and and this fence was all on all four sides of the tree And the tree was starting to grow into the fence. So we reconfigured the fence using all the parts and Left it so that it was more open for the tree. Well, then a storm came and took the tree out so after the tree you The first tree we it took us a while because it's an American Linden and those are trees are Kind of hard to find we found one we planted it and the first football Saturday it was damaged and snapped off So we found another one and that one was also vandalized but so this is the third Linden tree that we planted in this area And that one's doing well. Here's the Katalpa tree that was on the South side of Architecture Hall The the large tree is in poor health. So we again propagated it and make another made another small tree So this is our new Katalpa tree. This is the original Katalpa tree and The Newton apple tree this tree was produced from grafting a twig from Sir Isaac Newton's original tree in England that Helped Newton discover the law of gravitation The tree grew in the nursery on East campus until it was large enough to be moved on to campus and it was dedicated in 1991 This is a flower of Kent apple tree and the plaque on it identifies it and it's located south of the Bayland embrace halls When the physics department was planning to move to Jorgensen Hall I sat in on a few of those meetings and they said in the meeting well, we want to take our tree with us And they said well, that's not possible. It's too big So again, we propagated this tree and we made two little trees for them and in May of 2015 We dedicated these two trees and we planted them Near Jorgensen Hall We had a it was a Arbor Day ceremony with the Jorgensen Hall physics students and They came out and helped us plant the trees and we're so excited about these trees. They even helped us They of course helped us plant them, but then they helped us water and even mulch them usually that part Everyone leaves before you get that part, but they helped do that too so 150 years from the raw prairie to a well-designed and maintained campus landscape From the very beginning chancellors the Board of Regents faculty and staff Knew that a beautiful campus feel full of trees and flowers was a great recruitment tool Landscape services is proud of the beautiful campus We maintain and is honored to be a part of this 150th year of tradition and growing a campus we have celebrated the 150th anniversary by putting four displays of flowers on campus these this one is the pansy flower display that Was recently removed and now we've put in begonias in this area on city campus and on east in front of the dairy store We have the same plantings So I'm also planning to do some campus walking tours if you're interested One of city and east campus. I've set the dates. They're sign-up sheets in the back of the room If the tour We're going to try and limit the size of the tour and if the tour doesn't fit your schedule or It becomes full. I have a waiting list up there, too So we can maybe do another walking tour if you if there's interest. So I'm ready for questions So thank you Eileen for that fascinating visual history of the campus landscapes through time We really appreciate it So as dr. Wilhelm said earlier, my name is Nathan Meyer It's my pleasure to moderate the question and answer session this afternoon Hopefully Eileen's piqued your interest and curiosity and you're ready to pepper her with a few questions If you do have a question, please raise your hand and Jeff will run the microphone over to you This is critical for the folks who are joining on the web stream or watching on Facebook live So are there any questions for Eileen? I'm interested in what you have found works best regarding native plants and Over the period of time that you have shown us has there been a shift in what native plants are working better So has climate in effect hit Nebraska? Can can we begin to plant different in quotes native trees and shrubs? Thank you Yes, well over the years, we've always used you know, bud wanted to use native plants and we continue to use native plants And they work, you know, well on campus Sometimes we have some issues with native plants in that they like to seed Reddly so they become also a maintenance issue. So we balance that with you know, the native plants that don't do that or using them Having them out there too. Just for display, but not having as many of that But yes, we do use lots of native plants and over the years. They've done well too as well as some introduced plants This is more a comment, but you mentioned people not Helping with maintenance chores so much, but I've I've seen pictures of Tradition back about 1919 or so of dandelion day. Yeah pictures of people, you know women students faculty out digging dandelions in the grassy areas to help maintain the campus Mm-hmm Yeah, so I saw that photo and I failed to get a copy of it in here because it's a very good one But I would say at that time that was all hand work and today we we take care of the dandelions By using chemicals So we don't need to do that Yeah That's the difference between I mean that the one picture I showed of like six guys out rehand raking and a big large area probably preparing it for seating Today we wouldn't use you know six people all doing the same thing We would use a machine and some hand work in trying to get it done. That's how we can still Accomplish a lot of Tasks and take care of this many acres of campus with the limited amount of staff that we have other questions I Have two blocks from where we are right now. Yeah, and I call the campus my private walking Park And I've noticed that the squirrels and the birds just totally ignore me. They're not afraid at all What what have you done to make them so comfortable with with people? well, I Can tell you one thing that has happened is there is a gentleman That comes to campus and he feeds them every day He feeds the squirrels and he feeds The birds too so primarily the squirrels have become very friendly because they expect Maybe you to feed them So yeah, that's not really good to do but What side was a Newton apple tree and do you know if it's had apples yet? Oh, yes, the all the little ones the little trees No, the little trees have not developed apples yet, and it is over by Jorgensen Hall and it's on the West side of the building sort of in their courtyard area But the other apple tree has apples and you can get Take them from the ground. We don't want you to pick them off the tree, but they're very sour and they Don't ripen very well, so but they're fun to eat because it's Newton Hi, Eileen. Hi. My question is you had mentioned bud Thought that campus and the beautification of the campus would work as a recruitment tool I wondered if that is still the values and if that's reflected in budgets and projects on campus making campus part of the The beauty of campus part of the draw to the inner versity I believe that it is still the philosophy we have heard from many administrators that and have seen support for our department and to make sure that we Keep the staff that we need and that we upgrade the campus when we can and we are upgrading it with trees and site accessories and You know certain areas making improvements as we go So I do think that they think still think it is very valid Is there any consideration given to the plantings in terms of using them as teaching tools for different classes? Yes, there is so on especially on East campus Be because the horticulture faculty used the campus as their learning laboratory. There are a Few gardens that they use primarily and then we also Make sure that we coordinate with them to to have the plants that they need for design But we also hear that other people use the campus in many different ways so Yes, it is use Maybe you could talk just for a minute about the UNL garden friends. I should have you do that The UNL garden friends is a group that was started when bud designated the Both city and east campus as a botanical garden and so this was an advisory group or a board that Was meant to support the gardens and so we still have the UNL garden friends today as a group that gets together They help us fund projects on campus. They help Support our department They do many things for us and it's a membership based group Did I miss anything good? Yeah, we're taking new membership. Yes One of their first projects was the gates at Love Library So the perennial beds that we talked about you can walk through gates into Love Library Garden area and that was one of their first projects. They've also done Helped us recently with Nisei Plaza. We recently restored that whole area and redeveloped that Which is up by Kimble. It's a Japanese second-generation Nisei garden and They've also helped with moral hall. They've helped an ag haul on east campus So several projects that have helped us as well as helping our staff fund Cookouts a cook out to thank the students for helping us work with us in the summer for example I teach in the School of Art and I recently visited Stanford University Just about two weeks ago and they have this beautiful new building that has a lot of these kind of lounge spaces on top Really accessible to students and then a number of trees and other plants up there And I didn't know if we have any buildings like that on campus that have kind of rooftop I don't know if they be gardens or something like that or if there were any plans for anything like that And if so, would that be something that you would maintain or give any idea? Hmm, I don't think we have any art any buildings like that we When you talk about rooftop We have started to try and do some green roofs and there's one of those over at Whittier that Is actually accessible in one of the courtyards So usually green roofs are on the top and you can't get to them. Oh, there's also one at At the rec center on the east that Richard Sutton worked on so Those are sometimes garden areas that people can get to but we don't I don't think have one what you're specifically describing and I'm not sure if there's one like that in the works Could you tell us a little bit about the current landscape master plan? Maybe some of the highlights looking to the future and also who is overseeing that plan who developed that plan I'm not the best person to answer that question. So the lot the most recent master plan is Five years ago. Can you help me Emily? 13, okay yes, and I can't really answer all of the Emily Casper would be able to answer that better than me Sorry, yes, we do follow the landscape master plan in conjunction with the development master plan and When we have capital improvement projects that is our guiding principle that we work with It's a guideline. So they rely on Myself to kind of give some information and form kind of what we can do and then I work with Others and landscape services to discuss how we're going to maintain those Love commons the north side of that is a product of that part of that landscape master plan The the big key part of that was how do we integrate exterior interior spaces and improve our civic infrastructure? as Eileen mentioned There was a very strong perspective about how the landscape was important to recruitment and That is a part of that resurgence in that landscape master plan. So It is definitely our guiding document right now So great great dialogue great conversation We don't want to stand between you and very store ice cream. So I encourage you to continue the discussion during the reception