NEW VISION: WELCOME CENTER AND REIMAGINED GIFT SHOP
Mounts Botanical Garden is a horticultural dream come true! Visitors feel it the moment they enter our 14-acre tropical oasis. Now imagine a welcome center and gift shop that delights and informs as well!
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ur vision includes a beautiful space where you can browse for that unique gift or plant, find books that will awaken your innergardener and spark your imagination, and where high definition screens with beautiful imagery will inform you on upcoming events and classes. Now, realize THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING! We are proud to announce the Mounts Botanical Welcome Center & Gift Shop. Construction is set to begin in May of 2020. As a not-for-profit organization, Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden relies on retail revenue to support outreach and free, educational programming to our community. Just last year, more than 5,000 local students engaged in a variety of nature programs and field experiences to learn about the joys of gardening, environmental stewardship, and conservation. The Welcome Center & Gift Shop, along with our display gardens, ultimately aids in our mission to inspire and educate through nature. Guests appreciate the world of horticulture through the unique items we sell in our gift shop and
know their purchase is helping to fulfill the Garden’s mission. An expanded and renovated Welcome Center & Gift Shop will accomplish several key objectives for the Garden’s continued growth and development: • accuracy in recording visitor attendance; crucial to grant applications and Garden maintenance • a richer visitor experience that includes education on the history of the Garden and its current exhibits and projects • increased revenue to support community outreach Community support for the Garden is accomplished in many ways. Members, donors and volunteers (some of you are all three) are responsible for the exceptional beauty of the Garden, and we are grateful. We need your continued support to keep our Garden thriving. Thank you! For more information on ways to support Mounts Botanical Garden, please contact Linda Ruark, 561-233-1757 or email LRuark@pbcgov.org.
Welcome Center Garden Access Concept Colomé & Associates, Inc. Architecture • Planning • Interiors
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