The event will take place on the Mahler Promenade in the Topiary Garden, pictured here, where students like Walter Galarowicz volunteer to keep our campus grounds healthy and beautiful.
HIGH POINT, N.C., April 12, 2022 – The High Point University family and community members are invited to campus for HPU’s annual Arbor Day Celebration on April 28 at 4 p.m. in the Topiary Fusion Garden at the Mahler Family Promenade. The event is free and open to the public.
This year’s event will honor HPU’s 13 years of receiving the Tree Campus High Education award. The celebration will include several speakers, special presentations and music by HPU’s female A cappella group, the Petal Points. Every person in attendance will receive a complimentary blackberry lily.
“We are not only blessed to have a beautiful campus, but to have gardens and an arboretum that provide a space for holistic learning and a place for rest,” says First Lady Mariana Qubein, who inspired the vision for the campus arboretum and gardens. “I love bringing the HPU family and community together to celebrate the beauty of the earth and how God has blessed HPU’s campus.”
The Mariana H. Qubein Arboretum and Botanical Gardens at HPU features 3,700 different plants, including more than 700 varieties of trees. The arboretum and gardens feature several tree collections. These include 48 varieties of redbuds, 65 different varieties of dogwoods, 40 varieties of flowering cherries and 135 different varieties of magnolias.
The event will include tours of the Culp Planetarium and the Caine Conservatory. Representatives from the Arbor Day Foundation will also present campus leaders with the Tree Campus Higher Education Award during the event.
The presenting supporter of this year’s Arbor Day Celebration is Davey Tree. You can find more information at https://www.highpoint.edu/live/.
