Chadwick Arboretum - January 2008 Highlights

A look back at Chadwick Arboretum
January 2008 Highlights

January 8, 2009 Dr. Francesco Ferrini presents two lectures on the Italian Landscape: Exploring Italian Gardens: Renewing the Tuscan Landscape & Exploring Constructed Landscapes: Mitigating Stress. Dr Ferrini is Chair of the Horticulture Department of the University of Florence in Florence, Italy.
Kottman Hall Auditorium
Dr. Ferrini with Dr. Dan Struve of OSU Horticulture & Crop Science. Dr. Struve made the connection with Dr. Ferrini while on a 2008 sabbatical in Florence, Italy.
January 12, 2009 Snow falls on the Chadwick's Steven Still Garden.Snow captured on Osage Orange "apples" on Howlett roof as placed in the spring of 2008. What do you do with hedge apples?....make art! Sherrill Massey has been creating horticulture-related art in the Chadwick Gardens since 2005. January 20, 2009 - A grafting workshop was offered led by Adri Quinones, Bart Hayes and Bill Johnson.

January 22,2009 - Robins feed on the winterberry holly Ilex verticillata in the Ohio Nursery Landscape Association (ONLA) Garden at Howlett Hall.
January 25, 2009 - The ONLA garden is given a noteworthy award during the 2008 CENTS show Short Course event. Noted are horticulturist, Kathy Burkholder, lecturer, Laura Burchfield and Horticulture & Crop Science Chair, Bill Randle

Chadwick Arboretum - June 2008 Highlights

June 4th - Master Gardener, Caye Aiello attended a Texas A&M conference on Earth-Kind® Roses and presented a workshop at the Chadwick Learning Gardens on the research. This hardy rose demonstration garden is near the trial gardens.

Rosarian George Meiling (center) was in attendance to assist.

Chadwick Arboretum - May 2008 Highlights

Volunteers prepare for the Plant Sale.

May 7-8-9, 2009 - The Big Chadwick Spring Plant Sale!

Plant Auction!

Friends of Chadwick Night at the Plant Sale - Food, Fun & Festivities.

Mid May - Our gardens blooms with a colorful display!

Peony 'Chameleon'

Steven Still GardenJack in the Pulpit - Van Fossen Wildflower Garden

May 22 - Chadwick loses a large white ash in the Lane Avenue Gardens - victim of the Emerald Ash Borer and the Red Headed Ash Borer. In June another ash tree was lost to the EAB in the Chadwick North Collection of native trees.

Chadwick Arboretum - April 2008 Highlights

April 3 - Chadwick presents a display at the Ohio Botanical Symposium.

April 7 - Sharon Treaster speaks to a Phenology Garden session.

Volunteers assist in the care of the Tropical Room collection.

April 17 - Star Magnolia - Magnolia Stellata - blooms in the gardens.

April 29 - Pawpaw - Asimina triloba - blooms - Lane Avenue Gardens.

Chadwick Arboretum - March 2008 Highlights

Chadwick Arboretum - March 2008 Highlights

March 5th - Snow drops bloom in Lane Avenue Gardens.

March 12th - An invitation to Friends, Pancake Breakfast attendees and anyone else, to observe a full moon sunrise at the Chadwick North native trees site. A few brave folks ventured out in the freezing cold for hot chocolate and donuts to watch. Due to some cloud cover the full moon was not visible, however, the ice crystals produced a magnificent vertical light pillar from the sunrise.

above Rosie Wendt photo

above Rosie Wendt photo

I have decided with this experience it would be a good thing to have a camera that not only would give the date, time and photo details, but temperature data would be handy as well. I think I would call this a phenology camera item.

March 13th - Dr. Julia Kuzovkina visits the Willow Collection to talk with Chadwick staff and volunteers about her Ph.D. research on the diversity of willows - Salix. She began planting these research specimens in 1999 which came under the Chadwick's care to become the nation's largest diverse willow collection. Plants were collected from all over representing the Old World, the New World and Asia.

Julia is to the left in the above photo.March 14 - Pruning workshop is co-presented by Rich Pearson, Cox Arboretum horticulturist at Five Rivers Metroparks in Dayton and Tomasz Przepiorkowski of Studebaker Nurseries.