Stanley M. Rowe Arboretum

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The Stanley M. Rowe Arboretum is a public arboretum in Indian Hill, Ohio. It covers about 3.6 hectares (8.9 acres) and is owned by the city, operated by a nonprofit group. It was founded in 1926 by Stanley M. Rowe Sr. and his wife Dorothy Snowden Rowe. The first trees were Northern Red Oaks, European Larch, Eastern White Pine, and Scots Pine. The property later grew to about 68 hectares (170 acres) with around 1,800 species of trees and shrubs, focusing on conifers. The land was given to the village as parkland to preserve its finest trees in one area. In 1982, the American Horticultural Society praised Rowe with an amateur citation for its remarkable collection of conifers, crabapples, magnolias, oaks, and beeches. It is designated as a Conifer Reference Garden by the American Conifer Society.