Botanica breaks ground on its new children's garden

Published April 30, 2010 at 11:23 a.m.

Bob Simpson's father was head of Simpson & Associates when the construction company built Botanica almost 25 years ago...Today, the company is embarking on what Simpson, now at the company's helm, calls the renaissance of Botanica: the new Downing Children's Garden.

Construction of the garden is expected to begin in the next couple of weeks. On Thursday, 80 children from the Independent School, wearing white plastic hard hats and carrying little green and blue trowels, joined organizers and city officials in breaking ground for the new garden. It is expected to be completed in a year.

"Opening a garden is a way of making a better world," said Emmanuel Didier of the landscape architecture design firm EDAW in Fort Collins, Colo. EDAW came up with the conceptual design for the garden.

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