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Learning Circle Series
Cloud 9 and Temple Virtual Learning Series Thank you Vanessa from Temple University for making this wonderful teaser for the virtual learning circle series! What is a learning circle? A learning circle is a group where we will build and share community knowledge around a specific topic. Instead of learning from a single expert, you […]
GROWING OUR GARDENERS
“While I have been at Gardening Club I have had nothing but great experiences” – Gratz Student Urban Agriculture Leaders After demonstrating everything we teach and build on students are able to apply their knowledge and skills and encouraged to share what they learn with the world. Check out one student intern’s recipe for Lettuce […]
Celebrate National Watermelon Day!
Join us August 3rd from 5-7pm at City Tap House at 3925 Walnut St! Enjoy drink specials, a watermelon eating contest, and support great Philadelphia nonprofits! RSVP here
The Friends generate support for the gardens on a yearly basis and work with the City of St. Cloud as a public-private collaboration to ensure the beauty and overall grandeur of the gardens is maintained and preserved. The Friends of the Garden is an initiative of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation, in partnership with CommunityGiving. Noio PC Netherlands 2020. No one could accuse Thomas van den Berg of being unambitious. Looking at the delicately hued, lo-fi dioramas scattered across these pages, you might find the following hard to believe: Cloud Gardens started life as a massively-multiplayer online game.
Cloud Gardens Conservatory
Located along the Mississippi River, visitors to Munsinger Gardens can enjoy the peace and tranquility of this garden. The garden takes advantage of its shady location by featuring mainly shade loving plants; including a wide variety of Hostas and ferns. Visitors can also enjoy the many geese and ducks that have made the garden their spring and summer home.
How the Land Was Acquired
Munsinger Gardens was originally (c.1880) the H.J. Anderson sawmill. The low riverbanks made this site ideal for the sawmill. In 1915, the City of St. Cloud acquired Riverside Park and what was to become Munsinger Gardens.
Joseph Munsinger
Joesph Munsinger was the first Park Superintendent for the City of St. Cloud. His great love of flowers led to the Park Department's first greenhouse, located in what was to become Munsinger Gardens. Flowers and other plants for the garden were grown on site in the greenhouse. While the original greenhouse is gone, the tradition of growing plants and flowers on site continues. The city named the 'flower part of Riverside Park' for Joseph Munsinger in 1938.
The WPA Program
The original greenhouse, rock garden, lily pond, and fountain are all in Munsinger Gardens as a result of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. Through this New Deal program, workers were able to plant flowers and trees, while also creating some of the garden's first pathways.