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September 15, 2023
Restoring Wildflowers to the Forests: Insights from a Soil Fungi Experiment
By Mikaela Lancy, Research Specialist
I’d found myself kneeling in the leaf litter, surrounded by forest, my fingers carefully arranging a leaflet of the small plant before me, my other hand adjusting a ruler to...more
September 8, 2023
How to Identify Mushrooms and Other Fungi
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
Let's distinguish what makes a mushroom different from other fungi, and learn to identify them.
September 1, 2023
Appreciate the Life Beneath Your Feet This Fall: National Mushroom Month
By David J. Burke, PhD, Vice President for Science and Conservation
If you’ve had a chance to spend time outdoors this week, you can feel late summer sliding into northern Ohio. The air feels a bit heavier, and a bit cooler...more
August 21, 2023
Holden Researchers Explore an Underappreciated Way Warmer Temperatures Will Impact Ecosystems: Decomposition
By Anna Funk, Science Communication Specialist
In a new study, researchers at the Holden Arboretum improve our understanding of a mechanism for how climate change will impact natural ecosystems.
August 17, 2023
Attending the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Conference
HF&G’s current Norweb Fellow, Lydia Jahn, attended the Ecological Society of America (ESA) annual conference this month and presented our research on spring wildflowers in Stebbins Gulch at a poster...more
June 20, 2023
Holden Forests & Gardens Receives the 2023 Program Excellence Award from The American Public Gardens Association
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Holden Forests & Gardens Receives the Program Excellence Award from the American Public Gardens Association Working Woods Learning Forest™ Teaches Public and Private Landowners How to Care...more
June 6, 2023
Effects of Climate Warming on Forest Plants
Spring forest phenology update: community scientists help Holden researchers study the effects of climate warming on forest plants. Each year at the Holden Arboretum, volunteers team up with members of...more
April 7, 2023
A Day in Bole Woods with Holden Researchers
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
The Soil Ecology Lab here at the Holden Arboretum is all about collaboration! This week members of our lab spent a day in Bole Woods to do site maintenance for...more
March 24, 2023
The Challenges of Rhododendron Research
By Sharon Halkovics, Research Specialist
Rhododendrons are loved by many gardeners for their bright, kaleidoscopic spring flowers. They are special for many reasons, including rhododendron being one of the most species-rich genus of woody flowering...more
January 6, 2023
From horticultural hero to cancer cure, what research has your Rhododendron done today?
By Juliana S. Medeiros, PhD, Plant Biologist
Your Rhododendrons are probably looking a little sad right now, amidst the cold wind and snows of January. They are probably drooping their leaves, maybe they have lost their beautiful...more
December 19, 2022
Great Lakes, Great Trees
The new Great Lakes Basin Forest Health Collaborative is leading the charge to save ash, beech and hemlock trees. Their base is at the Holden Arboretum. Wandering the Holden Arboretum,...more
December 8, 2022
The Sweet Side of Winter: Carbohydrate Dynamics during Cold Acclimation
By Samuel Harbol, Norweb Fellow Deciduous plants such as maple trees lose their leaves in winter, and this helps them to survive cold temperatures, but what about our evergreen friends,...more
December 2, 2022
Why We’re Celebrating Soil for World Soil Day — And You Should Too!
By Anna Funk, Ph.D., Science Communication Specialist
We’re surrounded by soils. They’re not just outside, but underneath us, supporting our structures and our homes as well as our ecosystems and food systems. But perhaps the most amazing...more
November 18, 2022
Where do we stand today?
By Hector Ortiz
By Hector Ortiz There was a time in North America when people saw plants and land as sacred, a gift from the Gods. The use and cultivation of some of...more
November 10, 2022
New Graduate Student in the Medeiros Lab: Miranda Shetzer
I recently began a PhD program where I am hosted jointly by Case Western Reserve University and the Holden Arboretum. The BioScience Alliance program promotes collaboration across research facilities in...more
October 13, 2022
An Inside Look at the Global Botanic Gardens Congress
By Connor Ryan, MS, Rhododendron Collections Manager
By Connor Ryan, HF&G Rhododendron Collections Manager The last week of September I attended the 7th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Melbourne, Australia. This is a semi-regular meeting of botanic...more
September 30, 2022
Trivia Answers and Farewell to Mushroom Month
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff September is ending and fall is in full swing. As the leaves on the trees start to change and the wind turns chilly, we bid farewell to...more
September 23, 2022
Inside a Scientific Conference: Mycological Society of America
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff Every year in July the mycologists of America converge for a week of academic talks, scientific posters, riveting discussions about fungal biology, and professional networking. This year,...more
September 15, 2022
For the Love of Fungi: an ode to the amateur mycologist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff Mycology, or the study of fungi, is a small but growing field. For many of us career mycologists this has been a curious but fantastic trend to...more
September 8, 2022
Connecting Above- and Below-Ground Worlds
By Sarah Kyker, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate
by Sarah Kyker We are continuing to celebrate National Mushroom Month at HF&G all September long! Today, we want to appreciate fungi even when they are not fruiting. While mushrooms...more
September 2, 2022
Mushroom Month Trivia
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, MS, Research Specialist
By Claudia Bashian-Victoroff September is one of our favorite months in the Holden Forests & Gardens Soil Ecology lab. Why? Because it is National Mushroom Month. Many people celebrate National...more
August 29, 2022
Welcome to Holden, Chelsea!
Dr. Chelsea Miller is a new postdoc, hosted by Holden to explore range dynamics of spring ephemeral wildflowers. Interested in possible career pathways in the world of public gardens, Chelsea...more
August 26, 2022
Can I save my beech tree? And other beech care questions, answered
By David J. Burke, PhD, Vice President for Science and Conservation
You asked, and Holden Forest & Garden’s beech tree expert, David Burke, answered. By David Burke & Anna Funk If you live anywhere near northeastern Ohio, you may have noticed...more
August 26, 2022
Why you should trim your beech trees in September
By David J. Burke, PhD, Vice President for Science and Conservation
By: David Burke & Anna Funk Beech trees looking a little rough? Ours, too. Beech leaf disease is prevalent in our area. You’ll know it by the green stripes (called...more
August 12, 2022
Bird Banding & Beech Leaf Disease
By Mike Watson, Conservation Biologist
Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) was first documented in 2012 in Lake County, Ohio and has now been found in 17 of Ohio’s counties, 10 states, and in Canada. BLD can...more
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