Here, you are greeted with a virtual kaleidoscope of color presented by over 15,000 annuals plus an assortment of perennials, shrubs and flowering trees. Visit their Japanese garden, or their rose garden or their water garden, or ...  A flower lover's paradise!

  Open daily from 10a-4p; noon-4p Sundays. Admission to the gardens is $6. For more information, phone 1-419-862-3182 or visit their web site: Schedel Arboretum.

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  From the Ohio Turnpike (I-80/90) take exit 81 and head north (toward Elmore) on OH-53 to CR-174 (about 0.6 miles). Bear left and follow 174 to CR-119 (about 0.5 miles). Turn left and drive to the end of 119 at the intersection of OH-19 (about 2 miles). Turn right and follow OH-19 north to W Portage River South Road (about 6 miles; it is the next road on the right after Cullman Road). Turn left and follow W Portage River South Road to the Gardens parking lot (almost 3.5 miles). Official address is 19255 W. Portage River South Road.