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.
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To a green thought in a green shade.”
—Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
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—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
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—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
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The sea, fluid garden filled with animals and plants.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)