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May 20, 2022
A Helping Hand from the Community
With an upcoming project and a desperate need for cardboard we reached out to local businesses, and they delivered.Mulch can be a great tool for controlling weeds in the garden,...
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April 15, 2022
When an Ecologist is a Lab Rat
by: Sarah Kyker What does the soil ecology lab at Holden have in common with a crime lab? More than you might think! In the soil ecology lab, we rely...
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April 6, 2022
Get to know Tom Arbour: Curator of Living Collections
I’m relatively new to the Holden Forests and Gardens. I started last September after a 20+ year career working for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. In the short time...
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April 6, 2022
Winter Work at the Holden Arboretum
Whenever people ask me about my job as a horticulturist, the number one question is, “So what do you do in the winter?” Well, we do a lot of things. ...
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April 5, 2022
Holden Researchers Present at Society for Ecological Restoration Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter Meeting
This past weekend, Alexa Wagner, Emma Dawson-Glass, and Sam Harbol each presented at the annual chapter meeting for the Society for Ecological Restoration Midwest-Great Lakes Chapter. The presentations detailed current...
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March 9, 2022
Collections Crew & Excel TECC
Last week the Collections crew hosted the students from Excel TECC for a few hours of volunteer work. With their help we were able to clear both invasive plants and...
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February 17, 2022
A story of becoming a scientist in the United States
By Na Wei, PhD, Scientist, Evolutionary Ecology Getting a PhD degree is never easy and perhaps more difficult for international students. One of the challenges that many international students face...
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February 10, 2022
Get to know a scientist: Connor Ryan
By: Emma Dawson-Glass, Research Specialist Where do plants come from? No, we’re not talking about the birds and the bees or the sun and the soil. Many of our favorite...
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February 7, 2022
Winter Interests
As the ground begins to freeze and we turn inward, or into a pile of blankets and chamomile tea, certain flora make their way to the forefront of the landscape,...
Read moreJanuary 24, 2022
10 Most Important Questions about Winter Herbicide Applications
In the Horticulture Department, we take advantage of slower-paced winter days to do dormant cut-stump herbicide applications on invasive woody plants. There are other methods to treat larger-diameter trees, but...
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January 20, 2022
Biome Bounty
By: Bernadette Gallagher, Gardener Did you know we grow quite a few plants that have edible fruit in our Costa Rica biome? It is exciting watching things grow and ripen,...
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January 20, 2022
To Plant or Not to Plant? The Low-Down on Fabric Containers
Over the past few years, you may have noticed what seems to be a growing trend in the horticulture industry. Whether you’ve seen them at your local nursery, an urban...
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December 16, 2021
Get to know a scientist: Alexa Wagner
By Emma Dawson-Glass, Research Specialist Scientists as a demographic are often viewed as a mythic group—the keepers of knowledge, uniquely capable of understanding complex systems, destined to their career choice...
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October 28, 2021
Autumn Gardening for Nature Lovers; Leave the Leaves
The birds, the blooms, the butterflies…but also the bees, the mushrooms, the ravenous deer, the slime mold sprawled across your mulch… As gardeners, we take it all in—the good, the...
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October 27, 2021
Foraging for Health
Cold, flu, and now, perhaps, COVID season, are rapidly approaching. Which means it’s also elderberry syrup season. For those not familiar, elderberry syrup is a concoction of elderberry, honey, and...
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October 22, 2021
Great scientists are made, not born
We’ve all heard the story; a famous scientist is asked how they got interested in their subject area and they say something like “I’ve always loved sea otters and wanted...
Read moreSeptember 16, 2021
Fall Forum: Attention Club Presidents and Representatives
Fall Forum, open to all club presidents and representatives, is scheduled for October 21 at 10:00 a.m. in Woodland Hall at the Cleveland Botanical Garden campus. Watch your email...
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August 10, 2021
Katie Stuble is Lead Author on a Paper in BioScience
Holden scientist and research chair, Katie Stuble, has been exploring ways in which we can harness the power in biological data collected over time and across many sites to understand...
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August 6, 2021
Claudia’s Travel Blog: A Research Excursion through Armenia
When you think of the country Armenia, what comes to mind? Maybe you know of a few famous Armenians, such as Cher or the Kardashians. More importantly, you may know...
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August 6, 2021
Holden Researchers Present at ESA
Holden researchers have spent this week attending one of the world’s largest gatherings of ecologists: the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. This year, four Holden researchers are...
Read moreAugust 3, 2021
Unusual Bulbs for Your Garden
Emerald Necklace Garden Club sponsors its third Education Series seminar on Sunday, September 19, 2021. Learn about the multitude of bulbs beyond tulips and daffodils for both fall and spring...
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July 23, 2021
The Name Game
Much of the research we have historically done at the HF&G’s David G. Leach Research Station is directly focused on new plant development. We are trying to breed the next generation of rhododendrons for the gardening public. The scientific, horticultural,...
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July 16, 2021
Holden Students Reach for the Moon, Land Among the Stars
One of the most important aspects of our work in the HF&G research department is mentoring students in independent research projects. Our research students include undergraduates and graduate students who...
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July 1, 2021
The Annual Bioscience Alliance Intern Fun Days Returned in 2021
This summer, the Research, Conservation, and Community Forestry departments welcomed 14 interns. The students have been spending their summer working on projects ranging from the crabapple microbiome to forest restoration,...
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June 11, 2021
Homogenized Biota in an Era of Urban Expansion and Globalization
If you were to travel between two distant regions of the world, would you expect to see any overlap between their respective floral communities? If this question was posed a...
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