June 16, 2007
The Toledo Botanical Garden is your community garden where you can enrich your life through gardens, the arts and nature. Founded in 1964 on 20 acres of land donated by George P. Crosby, the Garden now encompasses 60 acres of lush landscapes and display gardens. Some of the gardens include:
- Shade Garden. Ohio's largest collection of shade tolerant plants, consisting of Fern and Wildflower displays and a remarkable Hosta Collection that includes over 300 species and cultivars.
- Herb Garden. These collections include Culinary garden, Literature garden, Grey garden, Historical garden, Tea garden, Shade garden, Fragrance garden, Knot garden and a Bay garden.
- Perennial Garden. This garden includes the Color Gardens with an impressive collection of Daylily, Iris, Lily and Peony Collections; Formal Perennial Borders; the Cottage Garden (in front of the stone wall); and the Green Garden (behind the wall). The Grass Collection and Xeriscape Garden are also located in this area.
- Dahlia Display
- Pioneer Homestead adjacent to the Peter Navarre cabin, is planted with vegetables and flowers commonly grown in the mid to late 19th century.
- The Rose Garden is home to over 200 shrub, tea, climbing and historical roses.
- Vegetable Garden is a display garden where seeds of new hybrids are grown. Within this garden, Compost Area displays different methods of creating rich soil and provides information on starting a compost pile at home.
- Village Perennial Garden, featuring a wonderful collection of plants designed to provide color and interest from early spring until late fall.
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The Schedel Arboretum has a wide variety of unusual trees and shrubs, visitors are treated to a variety of beautiful peony, rose, kitchen and water gardens as well as an outstanding Japanese Garden with Torri, pagodas, lanterns, water fall and reflecting pool. Other examples of items of special interest are the grove of Dawn Redwoods and the Bristlecone Pine in the fossil record, were discovered in China some 6 decades ago and imported to the USA. Some of the oldest Dawn Redwoods growing in North America can be found in our gardens. The Bristlecone Pine is possibly the oldest living species on earth and thus the Schedel specimens occupy a prominent place in the gardens. Also of interest is the bonsai collection housed in a special shelter display.
To learn more about the Schedel Arboretum, visit their web site at http://www.schedel-gardens.org/schedel/main.asp.
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