Financial Donation

Donating money to the Arboretum's gift fund helps your dollars go further. We are able to purchase supplies, materials and plants at wholesale prices allowing us to get more for the money.  The donations made to the Arboretum's gift fund are unrestricted and can be used by the Arboretum in a way most needed at the time. 

Donating money to the Arboretum's Endowment Fund helps us plan for the future of the Arboretum.  Money donated to the Endowment Fund help boost the dollars we earn in interest over time. Each year we are able to spend a portion of the interest earned on the balance in the Endowed Fund. This ensures a steady stream of income throughout the years. Contributing to the Endowment Fund helps us know we have reliable income for years to come.  Simply select 'Other' and then write-in Ambler Arboretum Endowment to support this fund. 

Sending a Check?

Please make checks payable to Temple University with Ambler Arboretum in the Memo

They can be sent to:
Ambler Arboretum of Temple University
580 Meetinghouse Road
Administration Building
Ambler, PA 19002
Attn: Kathy Salisbury

How You Can Help: Volunteer

The energy and creativity of volunteers provide essential support to our gardens and programs. We welcome volunteers with an interest in plants to help our Horticulture Staff maintain the Arboretum’s gardens. Learn more about Volunteering

Plants 

Many people have been asking what plants the Arboretum needs. It is true we have lost thousands of plants in our collections and displays. While donating money helps us get the plants we need, when we need them and at a great price, we know many in our community have access to plants they would like to share with us. 

Here we have listed the plants we are currently looking to add to our collection. The reasons we have selected these plants vary and have been chosen based on plans, priorities and in coordination with our plant collections policy.

If you have plant material you’d like to donate that is not listed, please contact Kathy Salisbury to see if it is something we can use in our collection. We will be coordinating these donations in February and looking to start planting them in Spring.

In order to accept plant donation we must know the correct identification of the material (to the best of the donor’s knowledge), the origin (e.g. what nursery or donor), and where they were grown (nursery or wild provenance).

Where plants are of wild origin we will require additional documentation. When donating plants you agree to be listed as a donor in our plant records database, and supply contact information (name of donor/business, address, and email).

Please contact Kathy Salisbury at arboretum@temple.edu to coordinate donations and next steps.

Equipment, Tools and Supplies 

  • Pick Up Truck 
  • Watering Tank 
  • Millside 03548 Polydeck Garden Wagon with Flat Free Tires 
  • Spearhead Spade Mini 
  • Spearhead Spade 
  • Greenworks Pro 60V 8” brushless cordless cultivator/tiller Model 2800602 
  • Trugs 
  • Tree Gators 
  • Tree Stakes 

 

Thank you

To all of the individuals, non-profit organizations, public gardens and nurseries who have donated plants (and in some cases the people power to plant the plants!) to the Arboretum:

Action Tank  

Bob Gray - Gray Landscape Design LLC 

Chanticleer 

Colibraro Nursery 

Frank Goodhart 

Harmony Hill Nursery  

Holly Days Nursery 

Jenkins Arboretum 

Karrie Hontz 

Kate Galer 

Kathleen V Salisbury 

Kayla McKay 

Longwood Gardens 

Margie Marron

Mary Pat Ford and Hugh Weldon 

Michael Larkin 

Michelle and Jeff Lapp 

Monica Hamill 

Morris Arboretum 

Nemours Foundation 

North Creek Nursery 

Sam Browns Wholesale Nursery 

Sandi Thompson and Jerry Burnsteel 

Scott Arboretum 

Steve Silberstein 

Tyler Bozzuto 

Upper Dublin Township Parks Department 

Villanova University St. Thomas of Villanova Day of Service 

Women's National Farm and Garden Association 

overhead view of some of the storm damage

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