Dawes Arboretum is located in Newark, Ohio, east of Columbus. It's a 1,149 acre collection of gardens founded in 1929 by Bertie and Beman Dawes. Inspired by their love of trees and nature, they wanted to create a lasting legacy on their property.
Some of the gardens include, an All Season Garden, which can give you excellent ideas for how to keep your garden blooming year round, an Azalea Glen, which is great to visit in the spring, a conifer glen, a cypress swamp, which is one of the northern-most bald-cypress swamps in North America (if you visit in the spring, you may see Jefferson and Spotted Salamanders.), a Japanese garden, and the Daweswood house garden. If you have time, you may want to tour the Daweswood House which has been turned into a museum.
You'll also want to visit the Outlook tower - a 36-foot tower which provides quite a view at the top. If you like hiking, you may want to allow time to explore the East trails on the property. A word of caution, though, these trails can get really muddy after it rains, and sometimes the terrain is a little uneven.
Dawes Arboretum is open daily from 7:00 AM until sunset. Admission is free.
Oh my Sherry, what a beautiful area...all my years in Ohio and I've never been there...have you ever been to the gardens in Mansfield?
ReplyDeletethose too are beautiful!
Yes, I have. I will probably do a post about them eventually.
Deletewhat a lovely old house!
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely house. There's a lot of them in that area.
DeleteWhen I get Oprah rich I'm buying this place. I'll send you a ticket and we will sip mint juleps together an watch the sun set on my 1 thousand and some odd acres. As a matter of fact I'll give you a hundred acres and we'll spend summers side by side. O.K. Sherry you can wake me up now. LOL
ReplyDeleteLOL! Hey, that sounds like a great plan to me!
DeleteSounds like a wonderful place to visit. The pond looks so peaceful. Is that a little lookout bridge or platform over the pond?
ReplyDeleteIt is a lovely place. A bridge goes over that part of the pond. I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but the hedges spell, Dawes Arboretum. You can read it from the lookout tower.
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