Secrest Arboretum's Plant Discovery Day has a menu full of plants, trees and flowers

Wooster Daily Record

Unearth the perfect flowers, trees and shrubs by exploring the hundreds of selections at the annual Plant Discovery Day Plant Sale at Secrest Arboretum.

The sale will be held 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at the Secrest Welcome Center, 2122 Williams Road, Wooster.

The event will include:

Dawn Redwood is a Secrest Select plant that will be offered, along with several rare cultivars, at Plant Discovery Day, Saturday, May 11, at Secrest Arboretum.
Dawn Redwood is a Secrest Select plant that will be offered, along with several rare cultivars, at Plant Discovery Day, Saturday, May 11, at Secrest Arboretum.

  • Unique and rare trees and shrubs and perennials selected by the arboretum staff

  • Fruit and nut trees from Coal Ridge Farm

  • Conifers from the Conifer Garden

  • Native perennials, woodland plants and prairie grasses from the Wilderness Center

  • Annuals, planters and hanging baskets raised by ATI students

  • Carnivorous plants and other botanical oddities from Fred Bess, The Botany Geek

  • Various types of potted orchids from Windswept in Time Orchids

  • Herbs and vegetables grown by the CFAES Plant Pathology Department

Want to add pink flowering cherry trees to a landscape? Matt Shultzman has been growing tall ones in the Secrest Arboretum greenhouses for the plant sale on Saturday, May 11. Flowering Cherry is one of the hardiest pink flowering cherry trees available.
Want to add pink flowering cherry trees to a landscape? Matt Shultzman has been growing tall ones in the Secrest Arboretum greenhouses for the plant sale on Saturday, May 11. Flowering Cherry is one of the hardiest pink flowering cherry trees available.

An exclusive pre-sale featuring trees and shrubs selected by Secrest Arboretum staff will be 3-4 p.m. Friday, May 10, for Friends of Secrest members only. Learn how you can join by visiting friendsofsecrest.com.

See friendsofsecrest.com/plant-sale for a list of many of the plants at the event.

This article originally appeared on The Daily Record: Plant Discovery Day at Secrest Arboretum in Wooster is May 11

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