Celebrate Autumn at the Garden!
Join us Sundays in October for a family-fun afternoon. Explore the beauty of autumn through special guided walks, hands-on activities and arts & crafts. Each week focuses on a different plant or animal that thrives this time of year.
10/27 – All About Bats: Just in time for Halloween, come learn about bats’ diversity, unique habits and the ecological role fulfill. Learn how to create a friendly habitat for bats. Work on a bat related craft to take home.
All Celebrate Autumn events are from 11 am – 4 pm. Included with daily admission.
Construction to Begin at New Welcome Center and
Garden of the Five Senses
On Thursday, July 25, the Garden held a Soil Turning Ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on a new Welcome Center which will offer many new visitor amenities, the Auto Garden which will more than doubling our parking capacity and the Garden of the Five Senses which is anchored by an education pavilion at the top and includes hands-on activities each specially designed to appeal to one of our senses.
The Garden of the Five Senses will open in April and the Welcome Center and Auto Garden in July. We have many people to thank, including our Board, Staff, the Pittsburgh philanthropic community and members, for the generous contributions needed to undertake these projects which total $10 million dollars. We were especially pleased to have our design partners from Overland Partners of Texas, Pashek MTR and Terra Design Studios at the Ceremony. Our “soil turners” included Pennsylvania House of Representatives Valerie Gaydos of the 44th District, Anita Astorino Kulik of the 45th and Jason Ortitay of the 46th, plus the sons and daughters of some of the Garden’s Staff.
See more pictures of the Event.
Photo credit: Connor Hochbein Photography
Thank You to our Corporate Partners
