March 2024
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Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities:
- March 8 and/or 15, 2024: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m., Invasive species removal workshop at Arboretum North
Learn how to remove tricky honeysuckle from Arboretum North while helping us continue to clear out this common invasive species from our largest garden site, Arboretum North. Pruners will be supplied, but please feel free to bring yours if you have them.Please RSVP with the date(s) you plan to attend to Julia Wilson at wilson.4615@osu.edu.
- March 12 and/or 14, 2024: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m., Boxwood Pruning Workshop at the Lane Avenue Gardens
Learn the proper way to prune boxwoods while helping us get our massive hedgerow of them ready for spring! Led by Horticulturist Pam Poeth, this pruning workshop will mostly take place in the conifer collection within the Lane Ave. Gardens. Pruners will be supplied, but please feel free to bring yours if you have them. Please RSVP to Julia Wilson at wilson.4615@osu.edu.
- Beginning April 2, 2024: Regular volunteer sessions in the gardens: Check out the Garden Volunteer Sessions flyer here.
New this year! Monthly, half hour "Plant Picnic Talks" will cover a wide range of topics after the normal volunteer session has wrapped up for the day. Volunteers are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch at 11:00 a.m. to the garden site while learning about a garden/horticulture topic. You do not need to have volunteered at the session to attend! April picnics will include:
- Thursday, April 11: "Get to know the common spring weeds", with Pam Poeth
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Friday, April 19: "Invasive Plant Management" with Petra Schmalbrock
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Tuesday, April 16: "Conifers at Chadwick Arboretum" with Joe Stewart
- April 29, 2024: 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., All-Volunteer Plant Sale meeting
Please RSVP to our Plant Sale Leadership meeting(s) here.
Learn more about our specific Plant Sale Leadership needs here.
Upcoming Tours and Outreach Events
Tour requests have begun to come in for the spring season for all sorts of groups and garden areas around Chadwick. You can read about each tour group, sign up to lead a tour, or discover tours to shadow our always-updating signup here: go.osu.edu/chadwickoutreach.
New Name Badges
Updated volunteer name badges will be created throughout the month and are very nice! Here is an example:
Please sign up for a new name badge here. You will be notified when they are ready for pickup.
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