Horticulture

Horticulture is defined in Webster's New World Dictionary as the art or science of growing flowers, vegetables, fruits, turf grass and shrubs especially in gardens. The Horticulture Department does all of that and much more as it oversees all the ground maintenance (except trees) of the parks within the Park District. The Park District has about 700 acres of developed parkland plus an additional 200 acres of undeveloped land for future use. This includes Roosevelt and Oak Parks, Corbett Field, Roosevelt Park Zoo, The Optimist Soccer Complex, Souris Valley Regional Park, the old Bison Plant property and 10 neighborhood parks.

The Horticulture Department employees take great pride in our award-winning grounds. .

The Horticulture Department is actively involved in several projects. At present we are working on long-range projects like The Souris Valley Regional Park and The Souris River Botanical Conservatory, the Adopt-A-Trail and soon the Adopt-A-Park program.

The Horticulture Department has been the recipient of several generous gifts over the past ten years. With one of those gifts, by Henry and Marian Kiehn, the Park District was able to build a second greenhouse and work complex, where we grow about 17,000 annuals and perennials each year. The second gift was from Ms. Dell Clarke (Marian Kiehn's sister). That generous gift has been set aside for future development of horticulture projects. I would like to thank the numerous people who have given of their time and donations over the years so that we can maintain the excellent flower program we have.

The Horticulture Department staff provides educational sessions to the public, schools and civic groups. We hope you will join us for our annual Super Gardening Saturday. For more information on the greenhouses or other related topics, feel free to call the Kiehn Greenhouse Complex at 857-4765 or e-mail us at mntghman@ndak.net

We encourage all our residents and visitors to spend several days at one of our great facilities and parks and see all the new plant varieties this summer. You will love it!!

Steve Wharton-Certified Grounds Manager

	Horticulture Employees Steve Wharton, horticulturalist Kevin Rubbelke, head groundskeeper