The Brenton Arboretum: A Personal Story

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Tony Tyznik’s original landscape design would be modified and updated continuously throughout his partnership with the Arboretum. 26
een his world at the Morton Arboretum for years. Tony was in his early 70s and vigorous. I would come to learn he was also an artist. He paints master plans in his mind and then assigns them to paper. It is his art form. He later gave Sue and me six large, wonderful prints of his pen-and-ink line drawings of trees that we gave to the arboretum. Tony saw great potential in this land, its significant relief, its bowl effect, its water, and its openness. He concurred that I needed to acquire my nephew’s 40 acres. He also thought I should create a lake or pond in the center of the property. He wanted an aerial map with two-foot scale that would give him the detail he needed to paint his design for the master plan. His ideas, Tony knew from experience, would spring to life from studying this map. He also wanted soil samples with pH readings and a soil map with soil porosity characteristics. 10 Tony was ready to go, and I could have found no better person. He dined with our family, and then we made an agreement. He would charge a very reasonable fee and go to work immediately after receiving the aerial map with close contour lines. We were moving! This project was his from 1997 until 2011 when he retired. It was a near perfect match. We shared a deep reverence for the natural world, and Sue and I became his good friends. Tony Tyznik was a gifted landscape architect and artist. His series of Tree Portraits illustrates his profound talent. 8. Charlie Brandt is the son of my deceased sister, Mary Elizabeth Brenton Brandt. 9. Heard Gardens was a garden center and nursery established in 1928 in Johnston, Iowa, later acquired by Wright Tree Service. 10. Soil porosity refers to the amount of pore or open space between soil particles. Pores are created by the contacts made between irregular shaped soil particles. Fine-textured soil has more pore space than coarse textured because you can pack more small particles into a unit volume than larger ones. Fine textured clay soils hold more water than coarse textured sandy soils. 27
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