Woodland Garden
Take refuge among towering trees, and enjoy a brief escape from our bustling city.
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You’ll be joined by butterflies, songbirds, and wild flowers as you explore our most informal and expansive retreat.
This forest offers year-round enchantment, but feels especially magical when you visit in fall and can admire the vibrant foliage. There are more than 30 species of trees in this area, including beech, hemlock, maple, and wild cherry.
Hidden bridges and tucked-away benches invite you to sit as you absorb the awe of nature. When you’re ready to continue, the Helen M. Whitehouse Boardwalk allows passage beneath the canopy as a rippling natural stream runs alongside you.
There’s also an abundance of wild flowers, including trilliums, dutchman’s breeches, Jack-in-the pulpit, Virginia blue bells and Solomon’s seal.
Things to discover
Green forest-light | The cool, green summer forest-light of Woodland Garden is a welcome forest cove for all us sunburned urbanites. While you walk, look for this immense tulip-poplar tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) that is a forest remnant still standing from a century and one-half behind us. Imagine the world |
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The cool, green summer forest-light of Woodland Garden is a welcome forest cove for all us sunburned urbanites. While you walk, look for this immense tulip-poplar tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) that is a forest remnant still standing from a century and one-half behind us. Imagine the world back then: hundreds—no, thousands—of giants like this one sheltering Cleveland and most all of Ohio in the unbroken aura of that cool, green summer forest-light …
Medusa Sculpture | Look at those magnificent lips and that monumental nose. But don’t look into those empty eyes or they’ll turn you to stone, ‘cause, well, them’s the rules with Missus Medusa. Crafted right here in Cleveland from cement conglomerate by William McVey, it originally hung on the Medusa Cement |
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Look at those magnificent lips and that monumental nose. But don’t look into those empty eyes or they’ll turn you to stone, ‘cause, well, them’s the rules with Missus Medusa. Crafted right here in Cleveland from cement conglomerate by William McVey, it originally hung on the Medusa Cement Company HQ at Monticello and Lee. It’s one of over a dozen significant garden sculptures at the Garden.
Cool Retreat in the Heart of the City | Our newly restored Woodland Boardwalk leads you from the hustle-and-bustle into a moment of cooling forest calm. Look up for the huge tulip-poplar and the dawn redwoods; look down for the patch of wild ginger and the white pom-pom flowers of edible leeks. A great escape from a hot August |
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Our newly restored Woodland Boardwalk leads you from the hustle-and-bustle into a moment of cooling forest calm. Look up for the huge tulip-poplar and the dawn redwoods; look down for the patch of wild ginger and the white pom-pom flowers of edible leeks. A great escape from a hot August day.
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Artwork on Display
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