Stanley M. Rowe Arboretum

The Stanley M. Rowe Arboretum was started by Stanley Rowe, Sr. and his wife Dorothy Rowe in 1926. They decided to start collecting trees and shrubs to reforest a ridge previously used for farming and pasture. The first project consisted of planting a few thousand seedlings from the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Forestry. The first trees were Red Oaks, European Larch, White Pine, and Scotch Pine. Years of trial-and-error plantings the Rowe's hobby grew to an accumulation of 5000 different types of trees and shrubs.

The Rowe property eventually expanded to 170 acres containing some 1,800 different species of trees and shrubs, with a focus on conifers. As most of the finest trees were in one area, it was given to the village as a parkland.

The idea was to experiment and try to grow everything that could live in this climate. Conifers were one of the Rowe's favorite plant types.

Today, the grounds are open from dawn to dusk every day for visitors. The American Horticultural Society honored Stanley Rowe in 1982 with an amateur citation for the arboretum, commending its collection of conifers, crabapples, magnolias, oaks and beeches.

Rowe Arboretum
4600 Muchmore Road
Indian Hill, OH 45243
(513) 561-5151