11/7/2009      64°F | Fair
The University of Michigan
what's in bloom
The Gateway Garden of New World Plants and the Alexandra Hicks Herb Knot Garden at Matthaei offer sensory delights with their profusion of colors and scents.
Check out the bloom calendar.
Looking for a central location to hold a group meeting? How about catching up on some of your reading at a riverside bench? We have some of the University's best study spots.

  • 2009 Student Award Opportunities

Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum routinely offers students cash prizes are to encourage creative work related to our mission. Each prize has its own criteria - apply to the one that best fits your proposal – the review panel will re-assign as appropriate. Only undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the University of Michigan are eligible. Applications are due Feb. 13, 2009. Click here to view the 2009 award opportunities.

  • The Ann Arbor News Reader Choice Awards:

  • 2008 Best Place to Hike: Nichols Arboretum
  • 2007 Best Place to Hike: Nichols Arboretum
  • 2007 Best Community Park: Nichols Arboretum
  • 2006 Best Place to Hike: Nichols Arboretum


  • Award winning Orchids:

  • Dendrobium lineale ‘Elizabeth’
    Awarded a Certificate of Cultural Merit by the American Orchid Society in 1996
  • Cattleya percivaliana ‘Alberts’
    Matthaei Botanical Gardens was awarded a Certificate of Cultural Merit by the American Orchid Society in 2006. ‘Alberts’ was also selected from among all other natural species awarded in the U.S. in 2006 for the Ann & Phil Jesup Botanical Trophy and from all other awarded Cattleya-type orchids for the Masatoshi Miyamoto Cattleya Alliance Award.
  • Oncidium Illustre ‘Matthaei’
    Awarded a Highly Commendable Certificate by the American Orchid Society in 1994. In 1996, it was awarded a Certificate of Cultural Merit.

  • Past Student Awards:
Apr 2007 In April 3 U-M students, Jake Serwer, Ben Friedman and Sam Roston, took top honors in the adult category of the Miller’s Creek Film Festival with their film River Bank Rescue. The film details work to repair the Huron River shoreline at the Arboretum’s River Landings. Congratulations to these young film makers. And thanks for thinking that our story was important enough to tell.

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