“More people are asking for information regarding organic lawn care,” says CFAES’ “Natural Organic Lawn Care” fact sheet, which aims to answer any questions you may have about mowing, fertilizing, weeds, pests, and more. It even offers a spring-to-fall calendar of what you should do and when. Check it out. (Photo: Getty Images.)
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Sustain your garden and Chadwick
Over 16,000 new and unusual perennials and annuals, native Ohio plants, herbs, and heirloom and organic vegetables will be offered at Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens’ Spring Plant Sale and Auction Fundraiser set for May 9–11 on Ohio State’s Columbus campus.
Get your Secrest plant shopping on
Eager to buy plants at May 11’s Plant Discovery Day plant sale? Hyperlinks to what’s being offered—woody plants, perennials, annuals, and herbs—have now been posted on the event’s website.
Visiting Secrest? You’re (even more) welcome
CFAES’ Secrest Arboretum in Wooster, a place that’s all about practicing, showing, and teaching ways to sustain healthy plant life, will soon have its first-ever visitor center. Called the Secrest Arboretum Welcome and Education Center (pictured), you can check it out plus buy some plants on Saturday, May 11.
Learn more. (Photo: Ken Chamberlain, CFAES.)
Let’s hear it from our head Master Gardener
Ready to plan your garden? Get answers to common plant-related questions from CFAES’ own Pam Bennett, coordinator of our Master Garden Volunteer Program, in the latest Ohio State Alumni Magazine.
So now that you’re finished with planting your garden …
CFAES’s Chadwick Arboretum in Columbus is offering free recycling of plastic plant pots, cell packs and trays on Saturday, June 16.
Take a summer walk in Secrest
Secrest Arboretum, part of CFAES’s Wooster campus, is hosting a free Guided Summer Walk on Friday, June 15.
Led by CFAES plant experts, the event, according to its website, will “call your attention to seasonal treasures and best practices for the landscape.”
Admission is free. It’s from 2-3:30 p.m. starting at the Seaman Orientation Plaza. Learn more.
‘Every Ohio State fan should have one’
Spring’s a great time for Buckeye nuts to plant their own source of buckeye nuts. Dig this story on how to do it on CFAES’s Stories website. (Photo: University Communications.)
Gonna make these gardens grow
CFAES’s two arboretums … arboreta … major plant collections are holding spring plant sales this weekend. Both sales usually draw hundreds of eager gardeners. Proceeds benefit the arboretums’ plantings and programs. Located in Columbus and Wooster, the tree- and flower-filled facilities are open to, are welcoming to and are happily used by the public.
See what’s in bloom or about to be
What’s in bloom in your town? Use CFAES’s online Phenology Calendar to find out. Go to the website, enter your ZIP code, and see a daily listing of the stages of bloom of trees and shrubs around you. Entries might say, “Apple serviceberry, first bloom,” for example, or “Koreanspice viburnum, full bloom.” There’s also an option to see the whole season.