Fall Color Watch Oct. 25th

Fall color continues to slowly spread on our grounds, transforming tree foliage with lush reds and golds. Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) are beginning to provide beautiful color at the arboretum. Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), and highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) are also still worth mentioning. Purchase tickets to visit arboretum. At the botanical garden, color is slower to arrive but festive displays of mums, pumpkins and seasonal planters are providing pops of fall hues. Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) can also be found at the botanical garden and the devil’s walking stick (Aralia spinosa) in C.K. Patrick Perennial garden, west side, has some nice purple-orange fall foliage. Purchase tickets to visit botanical garden.

Kalberer Emergent Tower and Murch Canopy Walk

Experience fall color from a new perspective at the Arboretum. The Murch Canopy Walk invites guests on a 500-foot-long elevated walkway that is built 65 feet above the forest floor. The Emergent Tower is 120 feet or approximately 12 stories tall and provides a breathtaking view of the surrounding area all the way to Lake Erie. Buy tickets here.

Stickwork by Patrick Dougherty

Open Open today: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Twisting mazes. Towering castles. All constructed from willow sticks and branches. Patrick Dougherty’s art has been featured in more than 300 locations around the world, and we have the privilege of hosting his Northeast Ohio debut at the Holden Arboretum. Buy tickets here.

Holden Unveils Tree Appreciation Artwork

Taiwanese- American illustrator Julia Kuo helps Holden Forests & Gardens’ People for Trees write a love letter to trees through a Tree Appreciation campaign. Custom imagery showcases why we love trees and why planting them is so important to Northeast Ohio.

Check out more about artist Julia Kuo in our featured blog. This beautiful art will be available for purchase in our botanical garden and arboretum gifts shops in the coming weeks. Sign up for our enewsletter for the latest information.

PBS NewsHour features Holden Forests & Gardens and our partners’ urban reforestation work

Holden Forests & Gardens was featured in PBS Newshour’s focus on the city of Cleveland’s tree canopy loss and efforts to combat it, entitled “Can urban reforestation help lower rising temperatures?” Watch the clip here.

 

 

Fall Community Tree Plantings

Holden’s People for Trees will be partnering with Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA) to plant 20 trees at Carver Park, part of a project to add 75 new trees to three public housing estates on Cleveland’s East Side over the next 18 months. Learn more here.

 

 

People for Trees

Our movement to plant and care for 15,000 trees by 2025 in NEO is off to an incredible start! Click here for an update from our Director of Community Partnerships, Sandra Albro.

Working Woods

Our work improves our forests’ health, and ultimately promotes conservation throughout the region.

Tree of the Month: Tupelo

This selection has a very tight, upright habit unlike the species. The lustrous dark green summer foliage turns impressive shades of orange in early fall. The upright narrow habit is ideal for smaller spaces and as an urban tree. Black gums prefer full sun to partial shade and will thrive with almost no maintenance once established. Great tree for wildlife. 

Great scientists are made, not born

Scientist Juliana Medeiros explores her path to becoming a scientist and advocates for others to embrace science as a learned skill, rather than as an inherent quality, in our new Science on Friday blog. Click here to read more.

Beech Leaf Disease and Forest Fungi: Healthy trees support healthy fungal communities

Arboreta play an active role in studying a wide range of tree diseases and the pathogens and parasites that cause them. Recently, our focus at Holden has been on Beech Leaf Disease (BLD), which is an emerging forest disease affecting beech trees in the midwestern and northeastern United States, and southern Canada. Read more here. Keep up with our weekly Science on Friday series and other timely announcements here. Check out our Guides and Resources for the latest how-tos about gardening and so much more.

Go Back to School with Trees & Plants

This fall, learn more about the natural world around us and how to care for it with school programs for all ages. We offer engaging hands-on experiences virtually or at the arboretum and botanical garden. We have new programs for Scouts, too.