Events & Special Exhibits
Experience nature in all its beauty at Cleveland Botanical Garden and Holden Arboretum. 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!
Upcoming Events & Experiences
Holden Arboretum
Fall Forest Fest
October 1st – October 9th
Join us on Saturday and Sunday, October 1st & 2nd, and Saturday and Sunday, October 8th & 9th for Holden Arboretum’s Fall Forest Fest.
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Bootanical Bash
Join us on Sunday, Oct. 16th, 2022 from noon – 5pm for our annual family-friendly Bootanical Bash! Come dress to impress! Participate in our outdoor Dance Party, Travel along through our Trick or Treat Trail, Get in on some Garden Games and Craft away at our Creation Station. Choose your arrival time below.
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Western Reserve Herb Society Herb Fair
Join us on Saturday, October 22nd from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the 75th Western Reserve Herb Society Herb Fair at the Cleveland Botanical Garden.
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Grab + Go Café
Have a picnic and fuel your exploration with Spice Grab + Go Café’s fresh, healthy options.
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Holden Arboretum
Buckeye Bud’s Adventure Woods
@ Holden Arboretum
When you visit Holden Forests & Gardens, be sure to spend some time with your little ones at Buckeye Bud’s Adventure Woods. It’s a wonderfully whimsical playground where kids can hop, jump, and limbo their way through the balance logs, put on a performance at the Nature Theater, or play a game or two of tic tac toe.
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“Nature Reconstructed” by Charlotte Lees
@ Holden Arboretum
Now through September 11th, view “Nature Reconstructed” by Charlotte Lees in the Corning Visitor Center. Lees transforms and translates the elements of nature to express a personal vision of her environment with carved wood and found object sculptures.
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New Growth by Charmaine Spencer
@ Cleveland Botanical Garden
Cleveland artist and sculptor Charmaine Spencer showcases her work of towering wall displays created from natural materials such as driftwood, red clay, reed grass, hemp thread and soil in “New Growth,” now on display in the Eppig Gallery at Cleveland Botanical Garden through September 25th
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Hershey Children’s Garden
@ Cleveland Botanical Garden
Come and spend part of your summer days in the garden this year! Besides our fountain, rock wall, tree house and water pumps, we have fun daily activities planned for children of all ages (weather permitting). All summer long, explore to find all the items for our scavenger hunt and check in to see if we have a special mystery gardener to help you pot a seed!
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Return of the Butterflies
Cleveland Botanical Garden
A visual treat with more than 600 newly emerged butterflies in Costa Rica biome.
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