Current Hollandia Botanical Gardens Supporters:
The Turner Foundation, Charlesine
E. Murph
Dr. W. C. Fippin
Tina Pavlatos
Fred Aukeman
Brian Kampman
Holly Lefevre
Paulette Thomas
Ron Shoemaker
Earl Robinson
Bonita Heeg
Peggy Bellows
Community Hospital Volunteer Horticulture Club
Nancy Gregory
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Mission Statement: Our mission is to enhance the lives of the people in the community and of visitors to the area, with beautiful and unique gardens that promote people-plant interaction through horticultural education, research, recreation, and therapy. |
What is a Botanical Garden and how can it benefit our community?
A botanical garden is a cultural institution exhibiting long-term collections of living plants while bringing the beauty of nature to a community in a controlled fashion.
A botanical garden will provide different opportunities of collaboration with the arts, educational institutions, etc.
Horticultural Therapy will bring amazing opportunities for outreach programs, nursing homes, MRDD programs, etc.
A botanical garden will enhance investments and developments in our community.
A botanical garden will bring considerable economic value to our community.
Accessible pathways for those with special needs will give them a better opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the gardens and nature.
A botanical garden will bring additional and unique special events and programs to our community.
A botanical garden will enhance alternative healing by collaborating with the Harmony Center of Springfield.
A botanical garden will build upon community spirit and pride improving quality of life.
Horticulture has always played an important role in our community. Springfield, once known as "The City of Roses," became the world's leading grower of new rose varieties. Manufacturing florist such as Hollandia Gardens, that once flourished from the early nineteen hundreds through the middle of the last century, were popularized in national publications and shipped roses from coast to coast.
Botanical gardens, not to be confused with landscaping, are horticultural museums, a reminiscence of what was here or how it use to be. As generations go by, this connection to the land as it was becomes lost, botanical gardens can maintain this connection to the past. A botanical garden would be a repository of knowledge of our local botany and geology, a place where young and old could come to better understand the role between man and plants.
Kent M. Sherry, President, BIA of Clark County
Hollandia Botanical Gardens Mailing Address:
Hollandia
Botanical Gardens
P.O. Box 235
Springfield, Ohio 45501-0235
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