Secrest Arboreium: Go to http://secrest.osu.edu/ for detailed information. Secrest is Here for You The beauty of over 2,000 trees and shrubs will greet visitors to The Ohio State University’s Secrest Arboretum. Through its various education and outreach programs in 2004, visitors will discover landscape solutions and the value of research-based information for an enhanced landscape. Its program and outreach initiatives share scientific knowledge of plants and landscape ideas. Researchers, educators, students, consumers, and representatives of green trade industries; nurseries, garden centers, and landscape construction, maintenance, and architectural firms; all benefit from research based information through discovery, education, beauty, wellness and economic health. Research provides insight into the science and technology of growing plants and the organization of such into an effective, productive landscape. Secrest Arboretum has evolved as an outdoor research laboratory and educational display garden, since Edmund Secrest set out the first planting in 1909 for a proposed Forest Arboretum. Many plants have found their way from Secrest research studies into the green trade, including the Red Sunset® Maple, a very popular tree boasting early fall color in brilliant shades of red and orange. The evaluation of deciduous tree selections in the Secrest Shade Tree Evaluation Project has been the driving force for market development of trees to replace the dying American elms that defaced Midwestern and eastern landscapes in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, the market demand for crabapples has been revitalized through Secrest Arboretum research that identifies disease-resistant cultivars –creating a higher-value product for consumers while decreasing production expenses for growers. Today, Secrest Arboretum has multipurpose functions of interdisciplinary research, educational outreach, and display of natural and landscape beauty –and free public access remains first and foremost in its mission and vision. Secrest Arboretum is an outdoor research laboratory and display garden generating knowledge to advance and communicate the understanding, use, and enjoyment of plants for people of the Great Lakes Region. The vision of Secrest expands in response to the rising needs and trends of gardening. We see the need to provide visitors with a readily available access into and circulation through the arboretum, expansion of research areas, and the addition of beautifully and functionally designed themed landscapes. We envision new programming that will strengthen the relationship of people and plants and generate and communicate research-based knowledge about the culture, maintenance, and use of landscape plants. Opportunities for Involvement We invite you to visit the arboretum during 2004. Consult the “Events” listing of the Secrest Web site to find an activity that will interest you. Several welcoming arboretum walks will be held seasonally this year. Join us for Plant Discovery Day, May 1st. Plant enthusiasts will find an array of plants not readily found in the green trade and can purchase them throughout the event or bid on rare and unusual plants during both silent and regular auctions. In the events line-up for 2004, you will find other workshops and education opportunities such as Deciduous Shrub School, Landscape Discovery Day, and Autumn Discovery Day. Volunteer opportunities are numerous and new Friends are always welcome through their volunteering or annual contributions. Friends of Secrest are always welcome! Growing for You, a major arboretum initiative, is launching in 2004. Growing for You presents opportunities for support of arboretum initiatives in science, discovery, education, beauty, wellness, and economic health. _____________________________________________________________ DIRECTIONS DIRECTIONS DIRECTIONS _____________________________________________________________ v v v Secrest Arboreium: Go to http://secrest.osu.edu/ for detailed information. Detailed Directions to OARDC and the Secrest Arboretum from points within Ohio: From Cleveland/north: Interstate 71 south to state Route 83 south to U.S. 30 west to Madison Avenue exit. South on Madison Avenue. From Lorain/Elyria/north: State Route 83 south to U.S. 30 west to Madison Avenue exit. South on Madison Avenue. From Columbus/Cincinnati/Dayton/south: Interstate 71 north to U.S. 30 east to Madison Avenue exit. South on Madison Avenue. From Akron/Canton/east: U.S. 30 west to Madison Avenue exit. South on Madison Avenue. From Mansfield/west: U.S. 30 east to Madison Avenue exit. South on Madison Avenue. From Dover/New Philadelphia/southeast: U.S. 250 northwest. From Toledo/northwest: U.S. 250 southeast to U.S. 30 east to Madison Avenue exit. South on Madison Avenue. State Route 3 will also take you to Wooster. OARDC's Wooster campus is at 1680 Madison Ave. (intersection of SR 83 South & US 250 East). Ohio State University ATI is at 1328 Dover Road (U.S. 250), south of the OARDC campus. Hours The Arboretum is open dawn to dusk year round. AND 585 South to Rt. 83 South. Ride Rt. 83 until highway dead ends then make a left. Go 1/10 mile to State Highway Patrol office. Make a right ture and take a gravel road behind the patrol office.