Quick Facts

• Built in 1993
• $4.98 million to construct
• 15,120 sq. ft. under glass
• Houses a Conservatory collection with 1200 plant specimens
• Houses an Insectary collection with 120 insects and arthropod specimens
• Designated a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Plant Rescue Center
• more than 6,000 visitors in 2011
• over 3,500 students served in 2016
• April 2011-First documented bloom of a Titan Arum, Amorphophallus titanum, grown from seed in Ohio.
• We use Biological Control, aka "Good Bugs" whenever possible for safe and natural pest control