Your Community Arboretum provides a unique educational opportunity right in your own backyard. The Arboretum stimulates interest in valley-wide beautification and promotes environmental consciousness.
There are three options for giving to the Arboretum:
Friends of the Community Arboretum: Become a member! Help keep our programs — and plants — alive and growing. By supporting the Friends of the Arboretum Program, you are directly supporting our day-to-day operations, projects and community outreach. Click here to donate and join.
Community Arboretum Endowment Fund: Gifts to the Community Arboretum Endowment Fund help sustain a unique educational opportunity on the campus of Virginia Western. The Arboretum stimulates interest in valley-wide beautification and promotes environmental consciousness. Click here to donate.
Buy an Arboretum Paver: A five-year effort to replace the Community Arboretum’s gazebo and replace it with one to last for the ages came to a beautiful close on Sept. 23, 2022. The new gazebo was dedicated at a garden party accompanied by a few afternoon sprinkles and a Roanoke Symphony duet. Arboretum volunteers, donors and Virginia Western leadership gathered to share the history of the gazebo and praise the Educational Foundation fundraising campaign that made it possible. Over the past five years, individuals, families and organizations have bought inscribed pavers to be laid as the surface floor of the structure. With the completion of the gazebo, it can return to its place as a community asset for both quiet moments of reflection and a gathering place where memories are made. Inscribed pavers are still available!
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Fishburn Hall – F214
540-857-7312
Fax: 540-857-6370
TTY: All users: 711
Mailing Address:
3093 Colonial Ave. SW
Roanoke, VA 24015
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