Southern Oregon University Botanical Tour features 107 trees, pollinator gardens, and the SOU Farm. Some trees on the tour are older than the school itself.
In 2014, the Arbor Day Foundation accredited SOU with its Tree Campus award, and in 2015 the University became the first Bee Campus in the nation by providing pollinator beds and bee habitats throughout the campus. SOU has pledged with the Friends of the Earth Bee Cause Campaign to stop the use of all neonicotinoids on campus in an effort to help protect pollinators . Neonicotinoids are harmful systemic insecticides.
SOU offers guided tours and self-guided tours. Brochures can be picked up at the SOU Landscape Services located at 351 Walker Avenue. Tel: 541-552-6117
Mike Oxendine is SOU’s Landscape Services Supervisor
https://landscape.sou.edu/sou-botanical-tour/
Ashland Garden Club members on a guided tour with Mike.
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- Mike our tour guide
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- Magnolia macrophylla, Bigleaf Magnolia
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- Under the Mulberry Tree
