Hobby Hybridizing: Creating New Plants at Home
Learn what it takes to breed your own plant hybrids!
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People have been selecting and breeding plants for more than 10,000 years.
Food crops are perhaps the most well-known examples, but more recently garden plants and forest trees have also been subject to breeding and selection. This class will provide an introduction to plant breeding and selection before a stroll around the Arboretum grounds to marvel at plants, resulting from plant breeding efforts by hobbyists and professionals alike. Participants will leave empowered to make their own hybrids at home.
Terrain: up to 2.0 miles, mostly paved, some hills, some natural surface
Age: Adult
Time: 1 – 3 p.m.
Hobby Hybridizing: Creating New Plants at Home
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Price: $20 per member, $35 per nonmember
Connor Ryan, MS
Rhododendron Collections Manager
As the Rhododendron Collections Manager at Holden Forests & Gardens (HF&G), my job is to curate the Rhododendron collection across HF&G. Rhododendron consists of roughly 1,000 total species and 30,000 man-made selections. Most of these plants do not thrive in our cold winters and hot summers, so it is a fun challenge to find the right sites and plants for our collection. In addition to its horticultural prowess, Rhododendron is a ripe group of plants for scientific study due to its immense, global diversity and evolutionary history. Many species are also at risk of extinction in the wild, so we are beginning to work with the Global Conservation Consortium for Rhododendron to conserve these plants globally. During the growing season, I am most frequently found at the David G. Leach Research Station, a 30-acre facility originally focused on Rhododendron breeding, evaluation, and display in Madison, Ohio. There I lead our rhododendron and azalea breeding program to create new garden plants with improved ornamental and adaptive traits. The soils at the research station are sandy, providing the moist, well-drained conditions in which rhododendrons thrive. This presents an exciting opportunity to build a world class collection of wild-occurring rhododendrons in addition to the world class horticultural collection already there.
