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The Friends of the Wild Flower Garden
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Dedicated to
Protecting, preserving and promoting
The interests of
The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
And Bird Sanctuary |
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Want to know more?
Please click on the links to the left to obtain more information about The Friends, their mission, opportunities for volunteering, how to become a member and for other information about this unique garden and its history. |
Seasonal Views of Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden |
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Left: The Hemlock Grove. Right: Upland Garden in August |
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| The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, the oldest public wildflower garden in the United States, is a part of the Minneapolis Parks System and is owned and managed by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. The Garden, located within the boundaries of Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a 15 acre site comprised of cultivated but naturalistic, woodland, wetland, oak savanna and prairie environments, with 2/3 rd's of a mile of unimproved pathways and a rustic shelter where educational materials and guidebooks can be found. |
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A Seasonal Poem |
Tossing his mane of snows in wildest eddies and tangles,
Lion-like March cometh in, hoarse, with tempestuous bearth,
Through all the moaning chimneys, and ‘thwart all the hollows and angles
round the shuddering house, threating of winter and death.
But in my heart I feel the life of the wood and the meadow
Thrilling the pulses that own kindred with fibres that lift
Bud and blade to the sunward, within the inscrutable shadow,
Deep in the oak’s chill core, under the gathering drift.
Taken from “Earliest Spring” by William Dean Howells 1837-1920 |
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| © 2010 Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, Inc., P. O. Box 3793, Minneapolis, MN 55403. www.friendsofthewildflowergarden.org or www.friendsofeloisebutler.org. All articles and photos are the property of the Friends of the Wild Flower Garden Inc. unless noted otherwise. |
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