Finding Minnesota: Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
WCCO's website has this story for the 100th anniversary of the Wildflower Garden. Jeanette Trompeter reports:
(WCCO) Minneapolis It's no secret the Twin Cities has one of the best parks systems around but many don't know that it also boasts the oldest public wildflower garden in the country.
Within the 759 acres that is Theodore Wirth Regional Park, there is a chunk of land worth checking out. It's a place where over a lunch hour people can tune out the hum of the city, and tune in to the peace and quiet.
"This woodland area is probably the largest area in the garden and it's full of the wonder spring ephemerals that people seek out right about now and woodland wildflowers," said curator Susan Wilkins.
Welcome to the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden. Butler was a school teacher in Minneapolis from about 1874 to 1911.
Read the entire story on the WCCO website.