Coker Arboretum |
Azalea Collection
Tucked in a corner of a major university campus, this gem of an arboretum is neither obscure nor forgotten. Students pass through, visitors sit on benches, romance is danced around in the shade of an immense oak tree. “Pound for pound,” within its 5.3 acre domain Coker may be home to the largest trees of any arboretum. If not, certainly the old trees are, at the very least, impressive and, at the most, truly a living legacy of the giants of the past.
If you visit Coker on a sunny day, when the flowers are abundant, and the large tree trunks contrast dramatically with the unfolding, small leaves high in the canopy, it is difficult to depart. Here is an arboretum with its own story told in the beauty of the leaves, the great trunks and limbs, and the profusion of blossoms.
If you visit Coker on a sunny day, when the flowers are abundant, and the large tree trunks contrast dramatically with the unfolding, small leaves high in the canopy, it is difficult to depart. Here is an arboretum with its own story told in the beauty of the leaves, the great trunks and limbs, and the profusion of blossoms.
Coker Arboretum
Pseudocydonia chinensis -- Chinese Quince
399 East Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919-962-0522
ncbg.unc.edu/pages/38/
Admission is free
Established 1903
5 acres. About 600 taxa are represented
USDA Hardiness Zone 7A