CFAES’s plant-packed Secrest Arboretum in Wooster (110 acres, more than 2,500 plant varieties) is taking applications through Friday, Jan. 19, for its next Master Gardener Volunteers class.
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Here, there be hidden jumpseed … for now
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On a certain summer day in CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum — July 6 — you can learn how to spot, ID and give the heave-ho to weeds.
Not so pretty in pink; or, ways to waylay wayward weeds
It’s pretty. And pretty hard to control. A class in CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum will help you win your war on weeds. (Photo: Canada thistle by John M. Randall, The Nature Conservancy, Bugwood.org.)
‘The day I discovered my passion for plants’
Secrest Arboretum’s Plant Discovery Day is Saturday. For Jeff Gallimore of Ohio State ATI, CFAES’s two-year degree-granting unit in Wooster, the event is true to its name (scroll down).
Make your yard your happy place
What can be greener than grass? The speaker at the Aug. 9 breakfast of the CFAES-based Environmental Professionals Network will show you some options…
How to do triage on trees
Check it out if your work involves trees or landscaping: CFAES’s Ohio Woodland Stewards Program is holding a workshop on diagnosing tree problems — from holes in leaves to galls on twigs, thinning crowns to dying branches — on Aug. 5 in Mansfield…
And now for something completely different …
At OARDC in Wooster, which is CFAES’s research arm, more than 600 crabapple trees like this one are starting to blossom and should be at their peak this weekend. (Photo: Royal Raindrops crabapple, Ken Chamberlain, CFAES.)
Wie treu sind deine Blätter
Tree types grown as Christmas trees can also be grown in the landscape. Check out 18 ways to do it — courtesy of plant expert Paul Snyder and photographer Ken Chamberlain, both of CFAES — in this photo tour published yesterday …
Buckeye nuts for Buckeye nuts
So, the “right tree in the right place” is a mantra of sustainable landscaping. Here’s how your right tree can be an Ohio buckeye. (Photo: Ohio buckeye flowers by H. Zell (own work) licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.)
Non-burning question: Leave me be?
Is it better to rake your leaves or leave them alone? Discovery News recently talked to CFAES’s Joe Rimelspach, a turfgrass pathologist, to try to answer the question. (Photo: iStock.)