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Buy TicketsCleveland Botanical Garden features indoor gardens with rare and exotic collections, plus specially curated specimens planted in themed glasshouses. Plan Your Visit
Enjoy a captivating way to enjoy the great outdoors and get in touch with nature. The gardens are awakening in the new season, and you will not want to miss it! From onsite experiences to classes and events, nature comes to life at Cleveland Botanical Garden and Holden Arboretum.
We are experts in research, conservation, and community forestry, and strive to make an impact in Northeast Ohio—and beyond.
Leading up to Earth Day 2022, Holden Forests & Gardens (HF&G) has adopted a climate change statement recognizing that climate change is real and providing facts and information about climate change, its implications, and some ways we are working to mitigate climate change at the Cleveland Botanical Garden and the Holden Arboretum. We hope this… »
ExplorePledge to plant a tree in honor of the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day.
Within our first year, more than 1,000 Greater Clevelanders pledged to plant more than 4,000 in our neighborhoods. In addition, Holden Forests & Gardens has planted more than 1,400 trees with the help of our community partners. This is great momentum, but we’re just getting started.
Join the movementMay 6, 2022
Holden researchers use a technique called grafting to bring trees from the forest back to the lab for study. By Rachel Kappler & Anna Funk How do you study a fully grown tree in a regular-sized laboratory? You collect a branch, take it back to the lab, graft it onto a much smaller tree, and… »
Read moreRed maple
Red maple provides food for pollinators in early spring. Acer rubrum is the fourth most common tree in the natural areas of The Holden Arboretum, trailing Acer saccharum (sugar maple), Fagus grandifolia (American beech), and Liriodendron tulipifera (tuliptree).
ExploreQuestion How do nanoparticles – emerging environmental threats – affect plants and associated microbiomes Project Summary Engineered nanomaterials released from industrial, agricultural, biomedical, and domestic applications are emerging environmental threats to the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Anthropocene. While nanoparticles are known to influence plant survival, growth, and reproduction, little is known whether and… »
ExploreMost of Ohio’s forest is privately owned. Private landowners face a variety of challenges when it comes to land stewardship including succession planning, pests, disease, poor logging practices, pressure from logging companies, and invasive plants. Good forestry addresses these challenges by working with nature so both people AND the woods can thrive. Learn more about… »
See the Learning ForestLearn more about our research and community forestry efforts.
May 20, 2022
With an upcoming project and a desperate need for cardboard we reached out to local businesses, and they delivered.Mulch can be a great tool for controlling weeds in the garden, but sometimes when weeds are particularly tricky to control, mulch alone may not be enough. Cardboard can be placed in the garden and then mulched… Read more »
Read moreMay 20, 2022
For Mother’s Day this year, my 9-year-old daughter filled out a survey about me. One of the questions was “Why is your mom special?” She answered, “Because she knows almost all of the flowers in Ohio.” One of my favorite things to do with my children on hikes is point out the flowers in bloom!… Read more »
Read moreMay 19, 2022
(CLEVELAND) May 19, 2022 – Spend your best summer yet at the Holden Arboretum starting with the Mission Botanica interactive maze opening Saturday, June 11, 2022, at 9 a.m. All summer long, enjoy concerts in the forest, wine tastings, art exhibits, hike in the forest with fireflies, and much more. Make it a summer to… Read more »
Read moreMay 11, 2022
Flowers are certainly not the first thing you may think of when you walk into our Madagascar Spiny Desert Biome. The first and most striking things you see are all the spines, it is right in the name, and they are hard to miss! However, if you look a little closer you may see something… Read more »
Read moreMay 11, 2022
During our son’s end of March break from school, we decided it was time to take a family trip to Washington D.C. The original idea was to go to introduce our teenage son to the U.S. history of the place, but quite by accident, spring break this year perfectly coincided with the National Cherry Blossom… Read more »
Read moreMay 11, 2022
By Eleanor Perenyi This is a wonderful little gem of a book written by an in interesting, smart, opinionated woman. Because it’s a collection of 72 essays on different garden related topics it does not require the commitment of reading from cover to cover. The reader can peruse the table of contents and choose a… Read more »
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