This month I will focus on the Sweetgum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua), a deciduous tree native to the southern portion of Ohio. It is often planted as a landscape tree in the rest of Ohio. Once you know this tree, you’ll likely remember it by its 5-7 point star-shaped leaves, its beautiful fall color and its spiky round fruits. In autumn, the leaves turn shades of color from yellow to orange to red to deep purple and mixtures of all of these, tending to turn and stay attache

Read more about your neighbors featured in the latest issue of the Minerva Park Community Association Newsletter Meet Santa & Mrs. Claus! Each December, Santa and Mrs. Claus make their annual journey around the world, but there’s one stop they both look forward to every year—Minerva Park! The Clauses have been visiting the village for as long as anyone can remember, and they say it’s one of their favorite places on the map. Santa loves how Minerva Park looks from the sky. “It

The Minerva Park Community Association awards three homes who bring the holiday cheer every winter - the annual Festival of Lights. We wanted to extend that celebration of our festive neighbors by adding a "Festival of Frights" to recognize the spookiest ghouls and goblins in the village. Without further ago, congratulations to our first annual Festival of Frights winners! 3086 Quiet Brook Vale 2669 Maplewood While we don't have pictures to share, they were amazing representa

Recently on the Minerva Park Facebook page, two of our trees were dubbed "the Kissing Trees" - apologies to the namer as I don’t remember who it was. This month, I thought it would be fun to do an article on these two trees.  They seem to be much noticed by those who walk the Green Space path. The Kissing Trees are the 2 largest trees that grow in the circle of path just south of Quiet Brook Vale pond (the pond by the tunnel). They sit on either side of KiIbourne Run.  To the