Green Bay Botanical Garden (GBBG) is excited about the new gardens that are being installed in 2010!  Both areas are located across the asphalt path from the existing Gertrude B. Nielsen Children’s Garden.  GBBG received gifts from Herb and Gladys King to create a shade garden and from the estate of Elsie Jenquine to create a pavilion, overlook, and garden. 

The King Shade Garden includes numerous boulder walls as well as a constructed ruin of a spring house.  The garden will have a strong collection of hostas with approximately 190 different cultivars.  There will also be about 75 other species and cultivars of shade tolerant perennials as well as understory trees and shrubs including a large variety of hydrangeas. 

The Jenquine Project planting includes numerous species and cultivars of native plants.  The many new cultivars of coneflowers and false indigos are well represented in the collection.  The area also will have many new trees and shrubs.  Together the King Shade Garden and Jenquine Project will add 200 trees and shrubs to the garden.

The majority of the hardscapes (paths and stonework) for both areas were installed in the fall of 2009.  In early 2010, the spring house will be constructed in the King Shade Garden and the pavilion will be erected in the Jenquine Project.  GBBG staff along with NWTC students, volunteers, and local garden clubs will install the plants.  We hope to have the majority of the plants in the ground by the end of June and for sure by the 2010 Garden Walk (July 10th and 11th).

So, get ready for the roll out of a 1.5 acre addition to your local botanical garden and experience a perennial adventure – literally!!