Tulsa's Garden Center breaks ground on a special garden

Tulsa's Garden Center started work on a unique project Tuesday. <br/><br/>Mayor Bill LaFortune helped break ground on the new "Linnaeus Garden" at Woodward Park. It's named for Carl Linnaeus

Tuesday, April 5th 2005, 10:42 am

By: News On 6

Tulsa's Garden Center started work on a unique project Tuesday.

Mayor Bill LaFortune helped break ground on the new "Linnaeus Garden" at Woodward Park. It's named for Carl Linnaeus - the Swedish naturalist who came up with the system for naming plants and animals.

The focus of the project will be volunteers who will help wannabe gardeners and landscapers learn the tricks of the trade. Barry Fugatt with the Tulsa Garden Center: "The Linnaeus Garden is just an opportunity for the Garden Center to have a vehicle, a classroom as it were, an outdoor classroom. To be able to not only lecture about horticulture, which we've been doing for years, but now we're gonna have a horticulture facility where we can actually do hands on training for thousands and thousands of local gardens."

The Linneaus Garden should be finished by late September.