Osborne Conservation, Education
& Visitor Center
Future Plans and planting/gardening efforts:
The garden was initially used in the past as individual flower plots that locals could volunteer to plant and maintain. Over the years it was changed into a more natural/native planting and eventually into the nature explorer garden.
This spring the garden became overwhelmed with volunteer trees and undesirable weeds. To mitigate this issue, we have disced up the garden and will re-seed with native prairie plants/plugs next year.
Although some of the explorer items had to be temporarily moved out of the garden the musical xylophone, climbing tree, gathering gazebo, and sandbox remain to offer some things to our visitors to that particular part of the park. Of course the native animal exhibit, nature center, and pioneer village all remain open to be explored.
