Green Bay Botanical Garden

Green Bay Botanical Garden

Green Bay Botanical Garden (47 acres) is a nonprofit botanical garden located at 2600 Larsen Road, Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is open daily in the warmer months, or weekdays in the colder months; an admission fee is charged.

The gardens opened in 1996 on a site that was previously Larsen Orchard. As of early 2006, the gardens include:

* Agnes Schneider Terrace - perennial flowers and ornamental grasses.

* Four Seasons Garden - a garden with winter interest, featuring magnolias, crabapples, lilacs, and perennials.

* Gertrude B. Nielsen Children’s Garden - children's garden, with a tree house, slide, maze, and sundial.

* Kaftan Lusthaus - a summerhouse of Scandinavian design.

* Mabel Thome Fountain & Garden - a fountain ringed with crabapples and annuals.

* Marguerite Kress Oval - a rose garden of contemporary design.

* John and Janet Van Den Wymelenberg Color and Foliage Garden - trees, shrubs, grasses, perennials, and vines with varied foliage (yellow, maroon, chartreuse, gray, and green).

* Larsen Orchard Remnant - apple trees, with an underplanting of spring-flowering bulbs.

* Mary Hendrickson Johnson Wisconsin Woodland Garden - an informal garden of native trees, shrubs and wild flowers surrounding a lawn for social gatherings.

* Schierl Wellhouse and Garden - The garden's well, and a garden of annuals and herbs.

* Stumpf Belvedere - a gazebo in early Greek style.

* Upper Rose Garden - a rose garden of hardy shrubs and hybrid tea roses.

* Vanderperren English Cottage Garden - a Wisconsin interpretation of an English cottage garden.

During the winter months, the garden hosts the WPS Garden of Lights, a display of over 200,000 holiday lights.

See also

* List of botanical gardens in the United States

External links

* [http://www.gbbg.org Green Bay Botanical Garden website]


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