With funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Polly Hill Arboretum plans to break ground in September on a $ 1 million educational center and botany lab.

Just in time for spring planting, staff at the Polly Hill Arboretum have debuted a plant selection guide, a searchable database that helps local growers choose ideal plants for their green spaces. The site has cataloged nearly 1,000 plants according to their preferred growing conditions.

The Polly Hill Arboretum is offering an exclusive tour of gardens of southern Arizona from March 22 to 26, 2015.

If you have a bad case of garden envy, Polly Hill Arboretum has the cure. Its annual end of the season plant sale is on Saturday, Sept. 13.

An arrow and a butterfly peek out of the grass at Polly Hill Arboretum. Follow that arrow, and you will come across the beginning of a story.

First grade students from Edgartown School explored the education programs at Polly Hill Arboretum, which are offered free of charge to kindergarten through fourth grade students throughout the Island.

The Polly Hill Arboretum abounds with mature overgrown hollies this time of year. Learn how to tame these beasts on Saturday, March 15.

The Polly Hill Arboretum and the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center are coming together to bring The Fruit Hunters to the screen on Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the film center at the Tisbury Marketplace. This cinematic odyssey through the jungles of Borneo and the hills of Umbria, to name a few, follows an obsessed few determined to save rare and exotic fruit from becoming extinct through overdevelopment and agrobusiness concerns. Bill Pullman stars as himself.

Polly Hill Arboretum offers a way to get outdoors and explore the off season on the grounds.

A chance to clean up the grounds and then a later opportunity to check out the night sky with amateur astronomer Barbara Caseau is coming up Thursday, Oct. 24 at Polly Hill Arboretum. Grounds volunteer day is from 9 a.m. to noon and is a basic fall sprucing-up event. Bring gloves and dress for the weather.