The Garden is open 9 am-8 pm daily (except Thursdays, 9 am-4:30 pm) through August 31. Garden grounds are open, but access to buildings is limited. See details below.
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern Our mission and ultimate goal at Green Bay Botanical Garden is, and has always been, to connect people with plants and to serve as an educational and inspiring horticultural destination. All of our display beds and plant collections are designed to give our visitors inspiration and ideas […]
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern In the Green Bay area, our open and outdoor spaces are filled with excitement at the sight of caterpillars stretching out across leaves and butterflies fluttering toward flowers. Their beauty evokes our admiration and their presence gives us hope because of the essential role they have in […]
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern Mowing the lawn and tending to your green spaces seems intriguing when the summer of 2020 is mostly canceled. However, in 2019 before the coronavirus arrived, Plantlife — a wild plant conservation charity — asked citizen scientists across the United Kingdom in 2019 to participate in “Every […]
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern Seeing a skunk in the garden may come as a shock to most, but different animals in our garden are actually a good thing! When you have skunks, foxes, snakes and woodchucks around, it’s typically a sign of a healthy garden and means you’re building a reliable […]
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern In North America, the existence of monarchs is threatened by habitat loss, pesticides and climate change. Monarchs are members of the essential pollinator population, so it’s crucial that they are protected as much as possible. That’s why the SAFE (Save Animals from Extinction) Monarchs conservation program work […]
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern Out in the summertime sun, all kinds of insects are flying in the air around us or moving on the ground below our feet. Warmer temperatures invite these creatures, and humans, outside where sometimes it becomes not as easy to coexist. When we see a bee or […]
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern Since two Asian giant hornets, otherwise known as “murder hornets,” were spotted for the first time in Washington last fall, there has been a spike in concern about the wrath that these creatures can inflict on honeybee hives. The murder hornets decapitate the honeybees in a matter […]
By Jackie Johnson ND, Northeast Wisconsin Herb Society of America We sit quietly during the cold winter months, and now during a cold spring and what seems like house arrest, we gaze longingly out our windows to look at our gardens and sigh. And, what do we also do? We plan because we’re gardeners, and […]
Lindsay Hendricks, Assistant Director of Horticulture After a long winter’s nap, pollinators are slowly starting to emerge. Conserving these creatures is vitally important, as the health of our ecosystems hangs in the balance. So, why not give them a warm welcome from their slumber with a pollinator-friendly plant? Our horticulturists chose their top five annuals […]
By Ta’Leah Van Sistine, Marketing & Communications Intern The start of our second summer with Butterflies & Blooms is just around the corner! On any given day, there will be 500 or more butterflies soaring around the butterfly house — some of them will be native favorites like the Tiger Swallowtail and the Monarch, while […]