Listen and Learn
Adults
Listen and Learn can help you plan your next visit to The Holden Arboretum. Call 440.710.5096 and hear more about seasonal highlights, self-guided tours and upcoming programs, classes, and events. Call weekly for updated information and not-to-miss visitor opportunities. Kids
Look for Listen and Learn signs on the grounds to learn and interact with cool things with your cell phone.
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Guide by Cell - Listen and Learn Prompts
Below are the current on-site sign titles and prompt numbers that can be found on the grounds of The Holden Arboretum. You can hear site-specific and plant information on your cell phone during your visit to Holden or you can listen to the information from the convenience of your home by dialing 440.710.5096 from your home or cell phone. Once you dial the general number, simply dial the prompt number followed by the pound sign to hear the prompt.
Plant Prompts - focus on plant attributes, use and cultural care
History and Use Prompts - focus on ethno botany and history of plants
Butterfly Garden Prompts - teach how to attract butterflies and useful plants for attracting them
Kid Prompts - suitable for children and families and tend to be interactive
| PROMPT NUMBER | TOPIC |
| 1# | About Listen and Learn |
| 2# | What Not to Miss |
| 3# | Current Programs |
| 4# | Upcoming Programs |
| 5# | Rochester White Fir |
| 6# | Japanese Larch |
| 7# | Valley Forge American Elm |
| 8# | Heritage River Birch |
| 9# | Variegated Sweet Gum |
| 10# | Paperbark Maple |
| 11# | Cedar of Lebanon |
| 12# | Accession Labels |
| 13# | Three-flower Maple |
| 14# | Whitney Bed - Summer Perennials |
| 15# | Butterfly Garden - Attracting Butterflies |
| 16# | Butterfly Garden - Spicebush |
| 17# | Butterfly Garden - Bronze Fennel |
| 18# | Butterfly Garden - Flower Shape |
| 19# | Lily Pond - Water Lilies |
| 20# | Bluebirds and Bluebird Houses |
| 21# | Weeping Mulberry |
| 22# | Hinoki False Cypress |
| 23# | Fastigiate White Pine |
| 24# | Bur Oak |
| 25# | Persian Perrotia |
| 26# | Elizabeth Magnolia |
| 27# | Bracken's Brown Beauty Magnolia |
| 28# | Fraser Magnolia |
| 29# | Oyama Magnolia |
| 30# | Frogs and Frog Calls - Kids |
| 31# | Ponderosa Pines - Kids |
| 32# | Bald Cypress Knees - Kids |
| 33# | Butterfly Garden - Pesticide Free |
| 34# | Butterfly Garden -Color to Attract Butterflies |
| 35# | Butterfly Garden - Trees and Butterflies |
| 36# | Butterfly Garden - Ornamental Grasses |
| 37# | Anthracnose |
| 38# | (Not active at this time) |
| 39# | (Not active at this time) |
| 40# | Red Oak Wood Carving in Rhododendron Garden |
| 41# | Artisit of Red Oak Wood Carving |
| 42# | Green Man Wood Spirits of Red Oak |
| 43# | Native Red Oak |
| 44# | (Not active at this time) |
| 45# | (Not active at this time) |
| 46# | Appalachian Red Red Bud |
| 47# | Emperor 1 Japanese Maple |
| 48# | Manchurian Striped Maple |
| 49# | Butterfly Garden - Purple Coneflower Cultivars |
| 50# | Butterfly Garden - Butterfly Bush Small Cultivars |
| 51# | Butterfly Garden - Fragrant Abelia |
| 52# | Bottlebrush Buckeye |
| 53# | Butterfly Garden -Walker's Low Catmint |
| 54# | Butterfly Garden - Feather Reed Grass |
| 55# | Butterfly Garden - Milkweed/Butterflyweed |
| 56# | Stokes Aster |
| 57# | Barrenwort |
| 58# | Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac |
| 59# | Chinese Ground Orchid |
| 60# | Rozanne Geranium |
| 61# | Ingwersen's Variety Geranium |
| 62# | Groundsel |
| 63# | Matrona Sedum |
| 64# | Amsonia |
| 65# | Barrenwort - Epimedium x rubrum |
| 66# | Tiny Monster Geranium |
| 67# | Gibraltar Lespedizia |
| 68# | (Not active at this time) |
| 69# | (Not active at this time) |
| 70# | (Not active at this time) |
| 71# | Kousa Dogwood |
| 72# | Tupelo |
| 73# | Sweetbay Magnolia |
| 74# | Japanese Tree Lilac |
| 75# | (Not active at this time) |
| 76# | Prothonatory Warbler |
| 77# | (Not active at this time) |
| 78# | (Not active at this time) |
| 79# | (Not active at this time) |
| 80# | (Not active at this time) |
| 81# | (Not active at this time) |
| 82# | (Not active at this time) |
| 83# | (Not active at this time) |
| 84# | (Not active at this time) |
| 85# | (Not active at this time) |
| 86# | Native Azalea Bed |
| 87# | Hybrid Buckeye |
| 88# | Panicle Hydrangeas |
| 89# | Hartlage Wine Sweetshrub |
| 90# | Plant Smells - Kids |
| 91# | Dead Tree - Kids |
| 92# | Lamb's Ear - Kids |
| 93# | Be a Tree - Kids |
| 94# | Lotus |
| 95# | (Not active at this time) |
| 96# | Butterfly Garden - Native Bed |
| 97# | Maximilian's Sunflower |
| 98# | Capenoch Star Sunflower |
| 99# | Blazing Star - Liatris ligulistylis |
| 100# | (Not active at this time) |
| 101# | (Not active at this time) |
| 102# | Hickory Tree - History and Use |
| 103# | Creeping Juniper - History and Use |
| 104# | White Mulberry - History and Use |
| 105# | Black Spruce - History and Use |
| 106# | White Pine - History and Use |
| 107# | English Oak - History and Use |
| 108# | Willow - History and Use |
| 109# | Arborvitae - History and Use |
| 110# | Elm - History and Use |
