Check back often for more fun events! From our famous winter seminar series to the annual Blueberry Bash and the Fall Festival to special guests, there is always something fun and exciting happening here at Dayton’s!
Tour with Tom!
Join us for an up close and personal tour with Tom Dayton himself. Not only is he the owner of Dayton Nursery but he also designed and created the Wolf Creek Botanical Garden, a 10 acre property adjacent to the existing nursery.
Tom will show you around the nursery including display gardens, processes for watering and planting, irrigation ponds, how we recycle water and our sets of solar panels and why he decided to invest in solar energy.
Plus, an in depth tour of the botanical garden will also be included. The garden’s diverse topography lends itself to the planting of various gardens such as those on a steep slope, bog garden, shade, formal, naturalized gardens plus various mature tree and conifer specimens.
Please meet at the green roof porch on the South side of the Owl Barn Market.
We are limiting the tour to just 20 guests so please reserve your spot on the tour by emailing us at info@daytonnursery.com or messaging us directly on Facebook.
This tour involves lots of walking so please wear comfortable shoes and prepare for some hills and walking on gravel, grass and concrete surfaces. The tour will NOT be cancelled because of adverse weather including rain or heat.
TOUR SCHEDULE:
Saturday, Sept 11th at 11:00 am
Saturday, Sept 25th at 11:00 am
Fall Family Fun Day
Our annual Fall Festival is now Dayton’s Family Fall Fun Day and it is back for 2021! Please join us on Saturday, September 18th starting at 10:00 am for a fun afternoon for kids and adults alike including an animal show, hayrides, food truck, pumpkin painting and carving and seasonal foods in the Owl Barn Market.
2022 Winter Seminar Series
We are working hard on the 2022 schedule including brand new speakers! Some talks are detailed below with more to come soon so please check back.
February 5, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Plants for Dry Garden Spaces
Speaker: Debra Knapke
Dry areas of the garden are often seen as problem spaces. This is due to a number of causes: elevated, rocky areas or sandy areas which receive lots of sun, areas which are sheltered from the rain, such as near foundations, and under established shade trees, to areas with complicated soils. Debra will discuss the principles of Xeriscaping and how to create beautiful gardens that can also be very low maintenance once established.
Known as “The Garden Sage”, Debra is passionate about gardening, sustainable and regenerative garden design, and the natural world and enjoys sharing knowledge through her writing, teaching, public speaking, and garden consulting in the private and public sectors. She loves being a gardener and has packed an amazing variety of perennials, trees, shrubs, and edibles onto the 2/3-acre lot surrounding her home. Debra is a published author and will have her books available for sale during the talk. PREMIUM SEMINAR // Fee: $20.00 per person
February 12, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Thriving or Merely Surviving? an Assortment of Superior Selections at Secrest Arboretum
Speaker: Jason Veil, Curator Secrest Arboretum, The Ohio State University – Wooster Campus
Not all popular landscape plants are aware of the spectacular virtues bestowed upon them by catalogs and the internet. When faced with less-than-ideal conditions, some truly impress while others disappoint. At Secrest, we relish our role of subjecting a wide range of trees, shrubs and perennials to the harshest conditions Ohio can dish out. The winners deserve our attention, praise and respect. The losers become compost. This presentation will focus on a number of proven performers sure to elicit botanical bliss instead of horticultural heartbreak. Fee: $10.00 per person
February 19, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Light Up Your Landscape with Rhododendrons & Azaleas
Speaker: Tom Dayton
With their jewel-like flower trusses, rhododendrons and azaleas can light up your landscape from very early April into mid-June. Depending on the type and variety, these acid-loving plants can be grown in full sun, part shade or almost full shade but the trick to growing these special plants is in the planting process! Tom will discuss the planting procedures for this ericaceous group including location, light, soil amendments, fertilizer and root wash. But, luckily, once planted, they require very minimal after care and will reward you with blooms year in and year out. Tom will also discuss the different families from evergreens to deciduous types to their bloom times and specific varieties including a brand new series taken from cuttings at a home near Lake Anna in Barberton. Approx. length: 1.5 hours. Fee: $10.00 per person.
March 5, 2021 @ 11:00 am
The Makings of the Mum Fest
Speaker: Robert Humm
The Barberton Mum Festival was started as a one-time event to celebrate the city’s 100th birthday. It has since turned into a yearly event drawing thousands of the people from around the region. The 31st Mum Fest was celebrated in 2021. The two-day event has evolved from a display of 15,000 garden mums to include crafters, food vendors and a water ski show on Lake Anna. But the main attraction is still the mum display. It takes art, math, research, science and luck to have the flowering perfect for the last week in September. Bob’s presentation will show how the display goes from a concept to a finished product. Bob received a horticulture degree from the University of Missouri along with serving in the U.S. Air Force. He has worked for a number of years in the industry including a long stint at Yoder Brothers (now Aris). Fee: $10.00 per person
