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.
Famous quotes containing the words green, bay, botanical and/or garden:
“On the green they watched their sons
Playing till too dark to see,
As their fathers watched them once,
As my father once watched me;”
—Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
“Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Evolution was all over my chldhood, walks abroad with an evolutionist and the world was full of evolution, biological and botanical evolution.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The city mouse eats bread and cheese;—
The garden mouse eats what he can;
We will not grudge him seeds and stocks,
Poor little timid furry man.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)