We are immensely grateful for all of the volunteers who showed up for our November 2024 Arboretum Clean-up day!









Friends of the Palomar College Arboretum
We are immensely grateful for all of the volunteers who showed up for our November 2024 Arboretum Clean-up day!
Palomar College received a donation from the San Diego Botanical Garden from the Library of Elmer Lorenz. The Friends of the Edwin and Frances Hunter Arboretum were able to have the first sneak-peek of the treasure trove this month!
If you would like to read more about the donation, please follow the link here.
“Edwin & Frances Hunter Arboretum at Palomar College Trails Improvement”
Saturday, March 15, 2019
2:00 PM
Groundbreaking Ceremony
Palomar College 1140 West Mission Road, San Marcos, CA 92069
Please join us in the Arboretum.
RSVP to (760) 744-1150 ext. 2956 or email reply to publicaffairsfb@palomar.edu
Palomar College will break ground on a long-awaited project to improve the Edwin & Frances Hunter Arboretum, a public nature preserve on the eastern edge of the San Marcos campus. Funded by Prop. M, the improvements will include a new entrance, irrigation upgrades and renovation, and trails conversion for ADA compliance in the lower portion of the arboretum, which includes the Palm and Bamboo collections, the Hubble Sculpture area, and all the primitive plant collections.
The nine-acre arboretum was founded in 1973, and in 2015 was renamed for Edwin and Frances Hunter with the establishment of a $500,000 endowment, donated to the Palomar College Foundation by Hunter Industries and the Hunter family. The Hunters were long-time Palomar College benefactors and are well-known business leaders in North County. The arboretum is ordinarily open to the public, but will be closed for the duration of the improvement project.
The groundbreaking ceremony will conclude with photo opportunities with Palomar College administrators and distinguished guest speakers as well as VIP attendees. Tours and refreshments will follow the ceremony.
Palomar Cactus & Succulent Garden 50th Anniversary Celebration
April 28, 2012
Click on the link below to start video.
Annual Plant Sale
Held on Thursday, October 6, 2011
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Donations courtesy of:
Bamboo Headquarters http://www.bamboohq.com
Exotica Nursery http://www.exoticararefruits.com/
Green Thumb Nursery http://www.greenthumbnursery.com/
Tropic World Nursery http://www.tropicworldnursery.com/site/Default.aspx
The Return of the Native with Ed Schwinn
(Ed is a vendor at the Saturday morning Farmer’s Market at the Vista Courthouse)
Thank you very much to our wonderful donors!
Proceeds go for the care and feeding of our beautiful Palomar College Arboretum.
Thank you for supporting our fundraiser!
Annual Fall Plant Sale Photos
Held on Thursday, October 7, 2010
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Great selection of bamboo, courtesy of Bamboo Headquarters
http://www.bamboohq.com
Discovery Island Palms sold palms and cycads
http://discoveryislandpalms.com
Proceeds went to the care and feeding of our beautiful Palomar College Arboretum.
Thank you to those who supported our fundraiser!