Among the fraternity values crafted on this day were the fraternity bird (the Great Horned Owl), the fraternity jewel (onyx), the fraternity flower (daffodil), the fraternity tree (Giant Sequoia), and the fraternity colors (forest green, old gold, and onyx black).
The arboretum includes a 2007 planting of 75 Sequoiadendron giganteum, the well-known giant redwood from the mountains of Southern California, and this area of the arboretum is intended to become a redwood grove in the future.
Chip and Dale retrieve their tree and make it fit to scale as a giant redwood tree.
Blanche once reminded Rose of the time the latter had lost Dorothy's keys, to which Rose responded that Dorothy had "uprooted a mighty sequoia." When Blanche considered that she and Rose should defy Dorothy, she made a list of questions, such as "Can she intimidate us?" and several other possibilities.
It nests in tree crevices or behind bark flakes, and favours introduced Giant Sequoia as nest sites where they are available.
Following the building in the 1980s of a small housing estate either side of the Turnpike Road, the remaining copse was adopted by Bracknell Forest Borough Council providing a large woodland space full of oak, beech and ash trees; it is also home to a large Wellingtonia pine as well as various Roe Deer.
A number of fine trees and avenues survive from in the old estate policies, including several fine Wellintonias, oaks, limes lining the main drives, yews and specimen sycamores beside the River Ardle.
There is still a village green and close by is a half-mile long plantation of giant redwood wellingtonia trees known as the 'Long Walk'.
Sequoiadendron giganteum, the giant sequoia, Sierra redwood or Wellingtonia, a massive tree species
Sequoiadendron giganteum | Tricarpelema giganteum | Eriogonum giganteum | Equisetum giganteum | Cardiocrinum giganteum | Campanile giganteum | Allium giganteum |
The landscaped gardens surrounding the school feature a variety of trees including Beeches, Tulip trees, Oaks (American and evergreen), Atlas Cedars and Wellingtonia.
It is composed of trees including Wellingtonias and Scots Pines and is home to a variety of rare animal life, including red squirrels, Peregrine Falcons, Roe Deer and Buzzards.
Glynn Vivian planted three notable trees still alive in front of the castle - one Wellingtonia 'Sequoiadendron giganteum' and two Monterey Cypress 'Cupressus macrocarpa', one a fastigiate form which is also one of the tallest recorded in Britain.
Aside from the city's design, arguably Walter Burley Griffin's longest-living legacy in Canberra is the forest of Redwood trees (both Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum) that was planted in 1918 by Walter Burley Griffin and arborist Thomas Charles Weston on Pialligo Avenue.
There are also experimental forest plots of exotic trees such as monkey puzzle and eucalyptus and giant redwoods and Monterey pines.
Specialized niche plantings include a Heather garden, a "black" garden, a seasonal "Laburnum Walk", a majestic stand of sequoiadendron giganteum, a cypress pond, a formal perennial garden, a heritage vegetable garden (seasonal), a fragrance garden (seasonal) and a large sino-Himalayan garden.