2013 Spring Home Landscapes

Admission is free with non-member class registration

Learn more about The Holden Arboretum's instructors

Arbor Day Lecture

Trees: A Photographic Celebration

Date

Friday, April 26

Time

7 - 9pm

Location

Corning Visitor Center

Instructor

Ian Adams

Cost

Free but registration required

Description

Trees: A Photographic Celebration is Adams’ latest book, celebrating the beauty and diversity of trees. The book includes 77 color photographs taken throughout the seasons in Ohio and 13 other U.S. states, plus favorite poems and quotations about trees. From bark to branch, root to trunk, twig to leaf, flower to fruit, this book is a tribute to one of Adams' favorite photographic subjects. Review copies will be available at the program, as well as signed copies of his recent book, A Photographer’s Guide to Ohio. Light refreshments will be served after the presentation where you will have a chance to speak with the author.

Class Code

HOR324

Lantern Court Garden Tours

Date

Sundays, May 5 or May 26

Time

1:30 - 2:30pm

Location

CVC

Instructor

Holden guides

Cost

$3 members, $8 nonmembers. Non member price includes admission to Holden

Description

Tour the exquisite gardens of Lantern Court. Delight in the formal English borders, naturalized plantings along the wooded ravines, rock gardens and perennial beds. Pick up ideas for attractive plant combinations to incorporate into your home landscape. Meet at the Corning Visitor Center.

Class Code

HIK114

Tree Flash - a New Program

Location

Corning Visitor Center

Instructors

Clem Hamilton, Charles Tubesing, Ethan Johnson

Cost

Free for members, gate admission for nonmembers

Description

Starting this spring and running throughout the year Holden members and friends will be notified through a short Tree-Mail Tree Flash, as well as posts on Facebook and Twitter when it is the perfect time to come to Holden to participate in a fun, casual outdoor program focusing on the botany, horticulture, ecology, and beauty of Holden's trees and other plants . Featured plants are guaranteed to be showing off their highlighted attributes when they are at their very best. Stay tuned.

Fun with Ornamental Plant Breeding

Date

Thursday, May 16

Time

4-6:30pm

Location

Leach Research Station

Instructor

Steve Krebs, Ph.D.

Cost

$15 members, $20 nonmembers

Description

Every spring at the Leach Research Station thousands of blooming plants in breeding populations reveal their true colors and are judged on their merits. Come out and help Steve Krebs, the station's director, choose which rhododendron seedlings might have a future in our gardens. In addition, learn how to choose parent plants for hybridizing, practice making your own cross pollinations, and develop an eye for what makes a superior plant.

Warning: this activity may be contagious, but that's not a bad thing. Many varieties of ornamental plants have their origins in the backyards of hobby hybridizers. Each participant will receive several species azalea seedlings to grow at home in order make first-hand observations of variability over time.

Class Code

HOR124

Growing Rhododendrons in Northeast Ohio

Date

Saturday, May 11

Time

10am - noon.

Location

Corning Visitor Center and then carpool to the Helen S. Layer Rhododendron Garden

Instructor

Viki Ferreniea

Cost

$15 members, $20 nonmembers

Description

What do you need to know to successfully grow Rhododendrons and other members of the Heath family? We will look at site location, soil amendments, bed preparation, planting and after care. Ferreniea, lead horticulturist and curator of the Layer Rhododendron Garden, will explore cover all of these topics so you will have long term success with this amazingly beautiful group of plants. Please dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes as the course will take place in the garden.

Class Code

HOR375