Fellows Riverside Gardens
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Fellows Riverside Gardens (11 acres) are public botanical gardens in the Mill Creek Metro Parks system, located at 123 McKinley Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio. The gardens are open daily without charge.
The gardens began in 1958 when Mrs. Elizabeth A. Fellows donated the property to Mill Creek Park, together with funds to create a public garden on the site. The first plantings began in 1963.
Today the gardens include labeled flower displays of annuals, chrysanthemums, perennials, and tulips, with over 40,000 bulbs blooming each spring. The rose collection includes a formal rose garden with hybrid tea, floribunda and grandiflora roses, as well as climbing roses along a perennial border walk. Botanical and shrub roses are represented throughout the site. The gardens also contain a variety of labeled trees and woody shrubs, with collections of European beech, dwarf conifers, hollies, and rhododendrons, as well as an observation tower with a fine view of Lake Glacier.
Two other beautiful structures, the Gazebo and the Kidston Pavilion, are often the site of weddings or other formal events.
The Davis Visitor and Education Center, located at the Gardens, houses a horticultural library, a cafe, classrooms, a gift shop and meeting rooms. Many cultural events take place here each year.
The garden is the site of an All-America Selections Roses demonstration garden and a trial garden and a dahlia garden where new plants are introduced to the area.
Children can interact with gardening and take classes in the Family Garden.
Several annual events, such as the Pumpkin Walk, an autumn exhibit of carved and lighted jack-o-lanterns, Gardens by Candlelight, a winter display of luminaria, and numerous flower shows are hosted at the gardens.
