Download the beautiful preview Great Park Development News Exciting developments are underway at the Great Park in Irvine, California, as plans for the much-anticipated Botanical Garden take shape. Over the past six months, significant progress has been [...]
Your Voice Can Help Bring a GREAT Botanical Garden to the Great Park! Thanks to the collective voices of the Great Park Garden Coalition supporters, a botanical garden at the Great Park has now gained the support of the Great [...]
The Irvine City Council just voted unanimously for staff to return with recommendations for ... drum roll please... "A NOT LESS THAN 75 ACRE site for a Botanical Garden" at the Great Park in Irvine! They also included provisions for an RFP, plus a [...]
At their next scheduled meeting, City of Irvine Great Park Board of Directors will discuss... “CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST BY DIRECTOR KIM AND DIRECTOR CARROLL TO DISCUSS A BOTANICAL GARDEN IN OR NEAR THE GREAT PARK” (Item 2.5 on published [...]
June—American Public Gardens Association Annual Conference For the fourth consecutive year, the Great Park Garden Coalition was in attendance at APGA, gleaning ideas from directors and designers at the top botanical gardens and arboretums across the country. Our own project [...]
Adapting to new safety protocols took a tremendous effort, but the silver lining for public gardens this past year was the greatly increased recognition of the essential value and benefit of experiences of the natural world. In fact, visitors not [...]
On May 13, 2020, the Coalition wrapped up a semester-long collaboration with Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture with a super Zoom presentation of the top six project designs. Despite a pandemic that closed campus and required a quick [...]
The Coalition is collaborating with Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture on a cool student learning project. Students from this diverse and highly respected program will apply the foundational elements they’ve been taught in a studio design course using [...]
The Great Park is seeking paid sponsorships for elements of the park. At the last Great Park meeting, Garden Coalition board member Mike Stockstill asked the board and staff to consider seeking sponsorships for elements of the future public garden [...]
As 2019 comes to a close, we have a lot to celebrate! The culmination of almost three years of public advocacy to keep a botanical garden at the Great Park resulted in the identification of a site for the Great [...]
