10/31/2007

Talk Friday (Nov. 2) to Look at Ohio State's Chadwick Arboretum

Writer:

Kurt Knebusch
knebusch.1@osu.edu
330-263-3776

Source:

Julie Hering, Horticulture and Crop Science
hering.1@osu.edu
614-292-2001

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Discover Ohio State University’s extensive on-campus “green reserve” in a free public lecture, “Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens: Your Public Garden for Education and Respite,” noon-1 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, in Columbus and Wooster.

Mary Maloney, Chadwick Arboretum’s outreach and development coordinator, will discuss what’s in the arboretum and how faculty, staff, students and the public use it.

The arboretum and its Learning Gardens are on Ohio State’s agriculture campus in Columbus, on the west side of the Olentangy River, with major plantings adjacent to Lane Avenue, Fred Taylor Drive and Woody Hayes Drive.

Specimens include native and non-native annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs, all of them suited to central Ohio’s climate.

The arboretum’s mission “is to promote an educational environment to advance the knowledge of students in their horticultural studies and to be a resource for learning about plants for the campus community and general public,” Maloney says.

“It’s also a place of respite,” she adds.

Attend in 244 Kottman Hall on Ohio State’s Columbus campus, 2021 Coffey Rd., or in 121 Fisher Auditorium on the Wooster campus of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), 1680 Madison Ave.

For details about the lecture, part of the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science’s autumn seminar series, contact Julie Hering, (614) 292-2001, hering.1@osu.edu.

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