Past Events

  1. A Plant Spectrum: From Native Plants to Problem Invasives

    May 19, 2022, 10:00am - 4:00pm

    Let’s look at plants from multiple perspectives, the good, the bad, the indifferent. Join us for this Secrest Arboretum/OSU Extension program, May 19, 10:00 – 4:00. Lunch included. $40 Registration to support Secrest Arboretum. Hear the clarion calls of music pouring forth from the Secrest Pavilion speakers!    Native Woody Plants You Should Know – Paul Snyder.

  2. Guided Tree Walk

    May 11, 2022, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

    Monthly guided tree walks feature all things trees.  A variety of topics will be covered, including proper selection and planting, insect pests and diseases. Please dress for the weather. 

  3. Scarlet, Gray, and Green Fair 2022

    Apr 23, 2022, 10:00am - 4:00pm

    The OSU Wooster Campus will be home to the 2022 Scarlet, Gray and Green Fair at the Secrest Arboretum Event Center (2122 Williams Rd, Wooster, OH).

  4. Arbor Day Celebration

    Apr 21, 2022, 12:30pm - 1:00pm

    Join us for our Arbor Day celebration as we celebrate the legacy and value of trees. There will be a ceremonial tree planting and tree seedlings will be given away. 

  5. Guided Tree Walk

    Apr 13, 2022, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

    Monthly guided tree walks feature all things trees.  A variety of topics will be covered, including proper selection and planting, insect pests and diseases. Please dress for the weather. 

  6. Guided Tree Walk

    Mar 9, 2022, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

    Monthly guided tree walks feature all things trees.  A variety of topics will be covered, including proper selection and planting, insect pests and diseases. Please dress for the weather. 

  7. Tree ID: Conifers

    Feb 18, 2022, 1:00pm - 3:30pm

    Is it a sprucepine or a firpine? Learn how to tell the difference between a spruce, pine, fir, hemlock, and other common evergreens. Students will look at samples and learn key identifying characteristics. 

  8. Thriving or Merely Surviving? an Assortment of Superior Selections at Secrest Arboretum

    Feb 12, 2022, 11:00am - 12:00pm

    Not all popular landscape plants are aware of the spectacular virtues bestowed upon them by catalogs and the internet. When faced with less-than-ideal conditions, some truly impress while others disappoint. At Secrest, we relish our role of subjecting a wide range of trees, shrubs and perennials to the harshest conditions Ohio can dish out. The winners deserve our attention, praise and respect. The losers become compost. This presentation will focus on a number of proven performers sure to elicit botanical bliss instead of horticultural heartbreak.

  9. Winter Tree ID

    Jan 21, 2022, 12:30pm - 3:30pm

    Learn how to identify common trees in winter by using features found on twigs. Time will be spent going over twig morphology, and twig samples.

  10. Music at the Arboretum-Idle Twittering

    Aug 20, 2021, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

    Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) closes out its summer concert series at the John Streeter Garden Amphitheater with Idle Twittering: A Flock of Flutes. French Flutist Louis Fleury (1878–1926) referred to music of the 19th century as “idle twittering.” What’s the antidote? A flock of flutes from Northeastern Ohio joins forces for a tuneful and tootful performance on flutes of all shapes and sizes with George Pope, Jane Berkner, Kyra Kester, Linda White.  

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