Christmas Tree Lane 2009

Christmas Tree Lane is one of the most anticipated events of the year! Various departments and societies around campus enter a tree into the contest. Each year there is an overall theme that all trees are to follow. The dates are December 4 through the 14th. Anyone in the Horticulture society interested in helping decorate our tree is welcome. Three people will be appointed to head up the project and they would welcome any help. Contact Sister Bass at bassm@byui.edu if you are interested so she can get a head count of volunteers. We do really well every year and it is always a fun, creative experience to get ready for Christmas!!!

Major Fair

Today there was a campus-wide Major Fair, held in the Hart Gym. The fair was held primarily for students that have not declared their major yet and for high-school seniors from the surrounding area. We had a beautiful display set up, showing a just small range of the capabilities that the Horticulture department has available.

We were, after all, the only department to bring in our own turf.

Our display was quite the cozy little corner.

Valerie, a student emphasizing in production, couldn't resist the comfort of the Adirondack chair on display. If you missed the major fair, no worries! Our helpful faculty is always willing to help you pick out a great major . . . Horticulture, of course!

Christmas Tree Lane

Each semester the Interiorscaping class has a section on Christmas decor where they set up Christmas trees in the Benson and Hinckley buildings. Since it's the season for decorating trees, they also submitted a tree into Christmas Tree Lane, a campus-wide tradition each fall semester. Here are the trees from this semester:

The Christmas Tree Lane tree came in as the grand prize winner on campus! Congrats to all who worked on the tree, and great job on all the other trees!

The Hunt for the Christmas Tree Lane Tree

On November 18th, Kristin Wheelwright, a Horticulture major emphasizing in Floral Design, went with Morris Christensen from Outdoor Activities, and Layne Kinghorn from Service Activities to cut trees for the Christmas Tree Lane celebration on campus.

To cut the trees, they went North to the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, near Harriman State Park. On the way up, this picture was taken overlooking the Island Park Caldera to the Tetons' in the East.

This shot is taken looking over Island Park Reservoir.

After hiking uphill in, at times, knee-deep snow about 100 yards, Kristin found the tree that she wanted. Here she is with Layne scoping out the plan of attack to take down the sub-alpine fur.

With a little bit of elbow grease from Kristin, Layne, and Morris, the tree was cut, and Kristin triumphantly drug it back to the truck. "It was my first time cutting down a tree for Christmas," she said, "so I hope it works well as our Horticulture tree this year!"