ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum and the Zonta Club of Northwest Wayne County have published a list of Michigan’s nature centers, outdoor museums, arboreta and botanical gardens.

The tri-fold listing, ideal for carrying in the car or with plant and tree identification books, includes addresses, phone numbers and a brief description of any locations with unusual features including Marquette Park’s 10-acre lilac display garden on Mackinac Island and the wildflower sanctuary at Loda Lake Sanctuary in White Cloud.

” Up until now, there hasn’t been one source that lists all the public gardens and arboreta in Michigan,” said Liz Elling of the Nichols Arboretum. ” As one of the oldest arboretums in the country, it seemed appropriate for us to take the lead in promoting our sister gardens and arboreta throughout the state.”

Copies of the list can be obtained free of charge from the following sites or by calling Helen Jeter at (313) 531- 9477 or writing to her at 14344 Mercedes, Redford, MI, 48239. Anyone with information about a public garden or arboretum not listed is asked to contact Liz Elling at the Nichols Arboretum, (313) 763- 5832, or by mail at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1115.

The list may be obtained at:

Albion — Whitehouse Nature Center Allen — White Marble Springs Ann Arbor — Cobblestone Farm, Leslie Science Center, Matthaei Botanical Battle Creek — Kellogg Biological Research Station, Leila Arboretum Society Belle Isle — Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory and Gardens Berrien Springs — Andrews University Campus Arboretum Bloomfield Hills — Cranbrook House and Garden Caseville — Huron Nature Center Wilderness Arboretum Clarkston — Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education Dearborn — Arjay Miller Arboretum, Greenfield Village Gardens, Detroit — Detroit Garden Center Dryden — Seven Ponds Nature Center East Lansing — Beal Botanical Garden, 4-H Children’s Garden Flat Rock — Oakwoods Nature Flint — Applewood, For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum Fremont — Branstrom Arboretum Grand Rapids –Aman Park, Blandford Nature Center, Frederik Meijer Gardens Grosse Pointe Farms — Grosse Pointe Garden Center, Inc. Grosse Pointe Shores — Edsel and Eleanor Ford House Hillsdale — Slayton Arboretum of Hillsdale College Hudsonville — Hager Hardwoods Park and Arboretum Jackson –Ella Sharp Park, Dahlem Environmental Education Center Kalamazoo — Five Senses Garden, Kalamazoo Nature Center, Upjohn Lansing — Carl G. Fenner Nature Center, Cooley Garden, Frances Park Memorial Garden Mackinac Island — Marquette Park, The Grand Hotel Marquette — Sunken Garden Midland — Dow Gardens, Chippewa Nature Center Niles — Fernwood Northville — Wayne County Arboretum Rochester — Meadow Brook Rose Garden Saginaw — Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw-Tokushima Friendship Garden South Haven — Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey Birthsite Museum Tipton — Hidden Lake Gardens Utica — Stoney Creek Metropark White Cloud — Loda Lake Sanctuary