Railway Garden
The Taltree Railway Garden is open from April 1 through October 31 from 8 am to 7 pm, with trains running from 10 am to 6:30 pm. The Taltree Railway Garden is an outdoor G (Garden)-scale model railway garden that engages visitors of all ages in an environment where they can explore, discover, play, and [...]
Read more »Children’s Adventure Garden
Funded in part by a grant from ArcelorMittal, the Children’s Adventure Garden is all about interaction, and not just between children and nature. Kids will be drawn into a world where houses are made from sunflowers, willow branches form passageways, and uniquely-shaped gourds hang from a tunnel leading to a shed with a roof made [...]
Read more »Rose Garden
Audrey M. & Leonard J. Hitz Family Rose Garden Audrey M. Hitz (1923-2003) was an avid reader who enjoyed traveling to far-flung destinations. She viewed each trip as an opportunity to experience gardens and landscapes in bloom. While she appreciated all flowering plants, her favorite was the rose. After Audrey passed away her husband, Leonard [...]
Read more »Welcome Garden
The Taltree Arboretum & Garden grounds become more formal at the Welcome Garden, which greets visitors with an ever-changing vista of color, shape and texture provided by an assembly of shrubs and perennials and blooming bulbs. A grove of Virginia pine adjacent to the gravel parking lot offers shelter to a variety of understory plants [...]
Read more »Meyer Memorial Pavilion Garden
Gardens surrounding the Meyer Memorial Pavilion feature plants that artfully blend with the structure’s wood and stone construction. A blend of formal and informal, the gardens offer a constantly changing color palette. The edge of the Heron Pond is planted with irises and grasses. Closer to the pavilion, a sense of relaxed formality is conveyed [...]
Read more »Entrance Garden
Visitors entering the arboretum from County Road 100 North will be greeted by a diverse community of trees and shrubs. Along the east side of the road into the arboretum a sumac grove shelters a wide array of woody plants. The west side of the road is home to bald cypress, black ash, buttonbush, holly [...]
Read more »Native Plant Garden
One of the most important missions for any public garden or arboretum is education. Taltree’s Native Plant Garden is as educational as it is diverse. All of the plants in this garden are native to Northwest Indiana. They provide food and habitat for animals that are important to the survival of our forests, prairies and [...]
Read more »Oak Islands
Each of the “islands” that comprise this exhibit is home to selections of oak trees (Quercus sp.) from temperate regions throughout the world. Visitors can view examples of oak habitats from Asia, Europe and America that include shrubs and perennials associated with the environment in which they are naturally found. Oaks (Quercus) make up the most [...]
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