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China Lights returns to Boerner Botanical Gardens

  • October 8, 2022

China Lights returns to Boerner Botanical Gardens after a two year hiatus

Brian Kramp has a sneak peek of the new Alice in Wonderland themed light adventure in Hales Corners.

Starting tomorrow, you can take an adventure in a lantern wonderland as China Lights returns to Boerner Botanical Gardens after a two year hiatus. Brian Kramp has a sneak peek of the new Alice in Wonderland themed light adventure in Hales Corners.

China Lights is back with a unique adventure with dazzling lantern sculptures, incredible performances, and interactive displays

Brian Kramp is in Boerner Botanical Gardens in Whitnall Park with a team that’s getting ready to reveal what they’ve created this year.

Imagine being surrounded by thousands of colorful lights in the gardens of Boerner Botanical Gardens while being able to enjoy delicious food

Brian Kramp is in Hales Corners with details on China Lights 2022: Adventure in Lantern Wonderland.

If you’ve never experienced China Lights you’re in luck – It’s back with a brand new exhibit

Brian Kramp is at Boerner Botanical Gardens with a preview of this year’s Alice In Wonderland theme.

Starting tomorrow, you can take an adventure in a lantern wonderland as China Lights returns to Boerner Botanical Gardens

Brian Kramp has a sneak peek of the new Alice in Wonderland themed light adventure in Hales Corners.

China Lights is back with a unique adventure with dazzling lantern sculptures, incredible performances, and interactive displays

Brian Kramp is in Boerner Botanical Gardens in Whitnall Park with a team that’s getting ready to reveal what they’ve created this year.

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Margie’s Garden; all-accessible space for kids in Whitnall Park

  • July 27, 2022

Margie’s Garden; all-accessible space for kids in Whitnall Park

Boerner Botanical Gardens is a well-known family friendly outdoor gem of Whitnall Park in Hales Corners. However, they have never really had an area meant just for children – until now.

HALES CORNERS, Wis. – Boerner Botanical Gardens is a well-known family friendly outdoor gem of Whitnall Park in Hales Corners. However, they have never really had an area meant just for children – until now. Brian Kramp is at Margie’s Garden, the all-accessible, interactive children’s garden space that opened this past week.

Idea and concept for Margie’s Garden/Potting shed

There’s a new children’s garden at Boerner Botanical Gardens that features everything from a playhouse and story book nook to a sound garden and bug garden. Brian Kramp is in Hales Corners with the daughter of the woman that inspired this wonderful garden that’s unlike anything else in the Milwaukee area.

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Enchanted Cottage Area

Boerner Botanical Gardens has been around since the 1930’s, but during that time there’s never been an area specifically for kids – until now. Margie’s Garden is an accessible space that is wheelchair and stroller friendly, with dozens of visual attractions that will excite kids young and old.

ABC and 123 Garden area

There’s a new outdoor experience in Hales Corners that’s whimsical, all-accessible, and best of all an interactive children’s garden space. Brian is at Margie’s Garden’s learning the A-B-C’s and 1, 2, 3’s of this special new children’s garden.

Whimsical area and music area

Built in the 1930s, Boerner Botanical Gardens is a well-known family friendly outdoor garden in Hales Corners that recently added a space that was designed with kids in mind. Brian is in Margie’s Garden, the all-accessible, interactive

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Boerner Botanical Gardens has a new $2 million children’s garden

  • July 8, 2022

The new $2 million children’s garden at Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners is now open. 

Margie’s Garden, located just west of Boerner’s Education & Visitor Center, contains loads of kid-friendly features, including an alphabet garden, numbers garden, playhouses and whimsical sculptures of bees, butterflies and caterpillars.

The colorful, inviting space — about two acres in total — also boasts sound makers, slides, a “flower shop” with free postcards, little libraries and a small stage with a seating area.

And what kid wouldn’t like a rustic bridge leading to an “enchanted cottage?”

“Margie’s Garden is a special place for children and their families to smile and engage in the joys of nature,” a message from the Kezman family, the project’s donors, says on a sign in the garden. “It invites visitors to put away the technology and play in the dirt. To expand their imagination, to smell the flowers, to walk and talk with each other.” 

The seeds for the project were sown in 2019, when Tim Kezman approached Milwaukee County Parks with the idea.

Kezman wanted to honor the memory of his late wife, Margaret “Margie” Kezman, who had died in May 2019, and offered to fund the installation and ongoing maintenance of the garden at Boerner, 9400 Boerner Drive, Hales Corners.

The Milwaukee County Board signed a development agreement for the project in 2020 and construction started in July 2021. 

The garden’s doors were opened to the public on July 1. 

A grand opening will take place at 12:30 p.m. Friday, July 8. It will include a ribbon-cutting and small flower pots will be provided to kids so they can plant seeds. 

Ellen Hayward, President/CEO of the Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens, said it’s been a long journey, including pandemic-related delays, but it’s been worth it to

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