Roger's Tree Pick - The Morton Arboretum

It was a cold -7 degrees when I set off to spend the day at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill., just outside of Chicago, a few weeks ago. A 1,700 acre arboretum, Morton has trees from all over the world.

The goal of the arboretum is to collect trees, shrubs, plants material and to display them for people to study and enjoy. They want to encourage the public through the planting and conservation of trees and others plants for a greener, healthier and more sustainable world.

So many of the trees that dot and adorn our Fallbrook landscape grow at the arboretum like birch, elms, oaks, liquidambar...