Ohio State’s Chadwick Arboretum featured on PBS

Ohio St. Univ.'s Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens will be featured in the nationally syndicated PBS show GardenSMART, airing in central Ohio on WOSU-TV on Nov. 7, at 3 p.m. Arboretum director Mary Maloney said people are going to be surprised by what they see in the gardens. The trial gardens contain 710 cultivars of annuals and there is a horticultural therapy program.
The episode (No. 1609) was filmed in early July and features arboretum staff members Bart Hayes and Jenny Pope. Also appearing is local garden personality Tom McNutt, a retired horticulture educator with Ohio St. Univ. Ext. and current gardening expert on local NBC affiliate Channel 4.
During the show, Hayes leads GardenSMART host Richard Ludwig on a tour of several of the arboretum's gardens, including the Mary Ann Arthur Shade Garden, the Bert and Josephine Kleinmaier Perennial Garden and the Trial Gardens.
“We do a lot of research at Chadwick,” said Hayes. “We’re not just planting flowers and making things look pretty. There’s a purpose. We study what grows best in central Ohio, what uses the least amount of water, what fertilizers work best and what's the best plant selection for the landscape. It would be great if the program encourages more people to take advantage of the resources available right here, not only at Chadwick but Ohio St.’s Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science as a whole.”
Also in the episode, Jenny Pope, the arboretum’s education and volunteer coordinator, tells Ludwig about its Horticultural Therapy Program.
"Not many people know about horticultural therapy,” she said “I hope viewers learn what it is and that this piques their interest in ways that horticulture can be used as a vehicle for therapy.”
Pope is working with 3 local programs: the Assoc. for the Developmentally Disabled’s Community Connections program, the Ohio St. Nisonger Center’s Early Childhood Education Program, and the YWCA’s Women's Residency Program.