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- About 25,000 annuals begonias, cannas, salvias, vincas and more are planted each May before commencement.
- In the fall, up to 2,000 mums, pansies and flowering cabbage and kale plants go into the ground.
- Time also is set aside in the fall to plant bulbs 7,000 to 8,000 in all that spring up the next year as daffodils, tulips, crocus and grape hyacinth.
- Trees and bushes remain a focal point on campus, and Assistant
Director of Facilities Management Mark Whitney says more than 80 trees and 1,000 shrubs have been planted in the last two years. Brochures on a self-guided tree tour of campus are available at the Visitors Center at Richland Avenue and South Green Drive.
- The oldest trees on campus at about 120 years old are believed to be a ginkgo that stands between the Visitors Center and the Hocking River and a pair of sycamores between Cutler and Ellis halls.
- Two silver firs on The Ridges by virtu
e of their size are designated as state champions by the Ohio Forestry Association. The green ash just west of Memorial Auditorium is believed to be the second or third largest in the state.
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