TRAVERSE CITY — The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park will be blooming come spring, thanks to recent grant awards.
Board Chair Karen Matte Schmidt said officials and volunteers spent the last three years building the infrastructure at the garden near the Grand Traverse Commons so they can turn their focus toward planting in 2015.
"This is going to be a major year for the garden," Schmidt said.
The largest project will be planting a 4,000-square-foot walled garden at the site of a 115-year-old horse barn. The barn was torn down in 1957, but the 9-feet-high walls remained.
"This past summer we had those stone walls restored," Schmidt said. "This will be the year when we bring in the topsoil and plant that garden, and that's really exciting."
A $16,800 grant from the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust will allow the garden's board to hire a part-time horticultural specialist to oversee their planting plans.
Officials plan to finish landscaping around the new visitor center and create new rain gardens in addition to completing the walled garden project.
"We knew we would need a horticulturalist to work with us at that time," Schmidt said.
A $6,000 grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation will help pay for three rain gardens in low areas along the garden's trails to help filter rain water and prevent erosion.
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Board Chair Karen Matte Schmidt said officials and volunteers spent the last three years building the infrastructure at the garden near the Grand Traverse Commons so they can turn their focus toward planting in 2015.
The largest project will be planting a 4,000-square-foot walled garden at the site of a 115-year-old horse barn. The barn was torn down in 1957, but the 9-feet-high walls remained.
"This past summer we had those stone walls restored," Schmidt said. "This will be the year when we bring in the topsoil and plant that garden, and that's really exciting."
A $16,800 grant from the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust will allow the garden's board to hire a part-time horticultural specialist to oversee their planting plans.
Officials plan to finish landscaping around the new visitor center and create new rain gardens in addition to completing the walled garden project.
"We knew we would need a horticulturalist to work with us at that time," Schmidt said.
A $6,000 grant from the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation will help pay for three rain gardens in low areas along the garden's trails to help filter rain water and prevent erosion.
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