The Children's Garden is a highly interactive garden designed to provide children and their families with experiences that delight and amaze. The Children's Garden will open in early fall of 2005. It features the following components:

• An international village featuring the world's varied architecture, cultures, gardens and indigenous plants
• A hands-on activity center where children can design landscapes, pursue art and performance programs, build projects with natural materials and even dig into the unknown world under the ground
• A universally accessible Leafy Overlook and Tree House promising fun and excitement for children of all ages
• A water play area for summer refreshment with fountains and jets.
• Weird and contrasting plants demonstrating the truly unbelievable diversity and adaptation of plants to their environment
• An Adventure Pathway exploring prairie, butterfly meadow and evergreen forest environments with special surprise discoveries along the way
• A Farm Garden where children can plant and watch grow the diverse fruits and vegetables that make up the bulk of the world's diet
• Parent rest areas where caretakers can relax within view of their children's exploration

For images of the new Children's Garden, please click here.

To learn how you can support the new Children's Garden, please click here.

To learn about children's education programs in the new Children's Garden, please click here.

[Map of the Children's Garden]