The Conservatory in the news:

Christmas arrives at conservatory

Preserve It Yourself!
Our Summer Canning series “Preserve It Yourself” is sold out. All four classes are full to capacity. If you are interested in classes next year, shoot us an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Butterfly Gardens
The Taylor Conservatory Foundation is one of the many organizations involved in a great project spearheaded by the Taylor Garden Club in 2008.   Citizens around the city have offered to build and maintain butterfly habitat gardens to help butterflies thrive in our area. The Taylor Garden Club has won national recognition for this great community endeavor, so be sure to check out the gardens at Herigate Park (Knopf House and Petting Farm)

• Rose Gardens at Dudley and Goddard
• Eureka Heights Elementary
• Fischer Elementary School
• Ford Senior Center
• Blair Moody Elementary School
• Professional Resource Center at Truman High School
• Taylor Teen Center on Eureka
• Chelsea Park

New Gardens at the Conservatory
As most gardeners know, gardens are a dynamic, ever-changing environment.  Flowers bloom at different times of the season, plants grow out of their space and need to be moved, some die, in spite of our best efforts.  We are always changing at the TCF gardens, too.  This spring we’ve added an incredible front entrance to warmly welcome visitors inside the Rotunda.  The entrance is an aluminum arch with decorative finial on top and covered with two beautiful espaliered Keefer Pear trees, grown by Espalier tree-expert Peter Thevenot, of River Road Farms in Tennessee. We’ve also add new knot gardens, a wonderful front entrance garden and two bluestone mosaics that include cobbles all the way from the streets of Dublin, Ireland.   

Fall-Winter 2006-07

• Oct. 14, 2006. Taylor Conservatory Foundation Breaks Ground, Heritage Newspapers
• Oct. 10, 2006. Engraved Brick Program “One Step at a Time” launched! Buy a Brick Today!
• Oct. 03, 2006. Taylor Conservatory on “Taylor Today” The Taylor Conservatory Foundation announced it’s groundbreaking ceremony plans on “Taylor Today”, a local cable show hosted by Dave Gorgon, Director of Public Information for the city of Taylor. The groundbreaking event will be held Tuesday, October 10, from 5-7 p.m. The public is welcome to attend and share in the excitement! Air date: Oct 3 and Oct. 8.
• Sept 30, 2006. TCF chosen for “Good Company” show. Patricia Donahue, executive director of the Taylor Conservatory Foundation was invited to share upcoming plans on “Good Company” a local cable show focusing on companies who provide interesting opportunities for citizens of southeast Michigan. “Good Company” is produced by local Rotarians, hosted by Lawrence Wright and sponsored by Comcast. It is seen in 29 communities throughout southeast Michigan, Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. and Thursday’s at 7:30 a.m.

• Taylor Info Newsletter
  • Spring Issue
  • Fall Issue
  March, 2006. Taylor Conservatory and Botanical Garden Launches web site
  
  
• March 6, 2005. Park project gets a $100,000 boost Park project gets a $100,000 boost By Anne Sullivan, The News-Herald TAYLOR — A little over a year after 23rd District Judge Geno Salomone presented plans to move a replica of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory to Heritage Park, the project got ...