Don’t miss the Chadwick Arboretum Open House. Bring your family and friends. It’s the best nature immersion of the summer!

This event includes:

• Entertainment by "Sock Hop Soda" - old fashioned entertainment with 50's music and hoola hoops
• “Friend’s of Chadwick” membership and information
• Refreshing root beer floats for the first 300 guests
• Complimentary “common milkweed” plants (while supplies last)
• Franklin County “Ask A Master Gardener Booth”
• The OSU Bee Lab, Denise Ellsworth, native bee i.d. and resources
• “Nancy’s Treasures” tree pruning demo and tool sales
• Tour of the Solar enCORE House and learn energy saving tips
• Darlene Sillick, Eastern Bluebird nesting boxes & habitat education
• Entomologist George Keeney with his curious collection of very usual insects
• Stella Barnes and the Chadwick Arboretum Student Team will provide information on how to install Rain Gardens
• Catch & Release Fishing and education about fishing lead-free
• Goldfinch Research and education
• Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Education
• Canoes will be available during the event for use on our Research Lake

The Arboretum North site is located northwest of the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center at 2201 Fred Taylor Drive, Columbus, OH 43210.

Parking is available across Fred Taylor Drive in Gray Lot #3.