Today we’re in Youngstown, Ohio, visiting the Fellows Riverside Gardens, a beautiful spot that is gorgeous, extensive, and completely free to all visitors thanks to a dedicated group of donors, staff, and volunteers.
There are impressive formal garden plantings, with geometric stonework, perfectly clipped hedges, and exuberantly colorful annuals, all guiding the eye on to the water fountains. The names on the bricks thank some of the many people who have donated to keep this garden looking great and open to the public.
Side paths take you into informal shaded gardens, like these beautiful plantings of hostas and a bench framed by two huge dawn redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Zones 4–8).
The rose garden is full of beauties, like this bloom of the rose ‘Elle’.
One of the best small trees or large shrubs is seven sons flower (Heptacodium miconioides, Zones 5–9). It can look awkward when young, but as it matures it turns into a beautiful plant like this and gives a wonderful flower display late in the summer when most trees and shrubs are long done blooming.
The honeybees like the flowers too.
The setting sun helps show off how beautiful this garden is.
Here the paths wind through dense plantings of ornamental grasses and other perennials.
A spectacular old weeping beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Pendula’, Zones 4–7) is one of the many beautiful trees in the garden.
A long vista up to the fountains features colorful flowers like this impatiens (Impatiens walleriana, Zones 10–11 or as an annual) lining the edge.
And don’t miss the dahlia garden! There are tons of beautiful plants there, looking their absolute best now at the tail end of summer.
Visit the Fellows Riverside Gardens’ website to learn more about this magical place.
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Comments
That seven sons flower tree/shrub, that weeping beech, wow!!! This is a spectacular garden and the volunteers are amazing.
Gosh, Ohio is not on my travel list yet, but maybe it should be. This is a wonderful garden, and thanks to the person who shared their photos today!
I enjoyed seeing those two big Dawn Redwoods- wow!
It's a beautiful public garden, I kept wanting to "walk" closer to the fountain and the building in the distance to get a good look at it. That old Weeping Beech is pretty spectacular too!
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