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TRR MEETING
MUNSINGER and CLEMENS GARDENS
 CRUISE


  
Our Club Meeting this July was a little
different.  We decided to cruise to St. Augusta Legion for their Chicken Buffet and then we cruised over to the Munsinger and Clemens Gardens.

Munsinger Gardens (14 acres) and Clemens Gardens (7 acres) are two distinct but adjacent gardens on the banks of the Mississippi River, at the intersection of Riverside Drive SE and Michigan Avenue in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The gardens are open every day from 7:00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m., spring to fall. There is no admission fee.

Munsinger Gardens are informal with winding flower-bordered paths under tall pines, and date from 1915 when the city purchased the former site of a sawmill as a park. The gardens themselves were constructed primarily in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration. Projects from this period included planting trees and flowerbeds, and building rock-lined paths, a lily pond, and a fountain. The first greenhouse was built in 1938; it has subsequently been replaced. The gardens were refurbished and expanded in the 1980s.

The Clemens Gardens were developed primarily in the 1990s by Bill and Virginia Clemens, who then donated them to the City of St. Cloud. They include six gardens in a formal European style with American plantings and fountains:

  • Formal Garden (1986) - flowers with fountain.
  • Perennial Garden - perennials hardy to Minnesota winters, with a 12-foot (3.7 m) high, cast iron replica of a pre-Civil War fountain patterned after the original in Columbus, Georgia.
  • Rest Area Garden - clematis and rose vines, with one of the tallest outdoor fountains in Minnesota.
  • Treillage Garden - an arbor trellis (104 feet long, with central dome 24 feet (7.3 m) high), with fountain under the dome, surrounded by four single-color gardens.
























 

 
2010 Board of Directors

President:
DuWayne Moll

Vice President:
Don Fisher
Secretary:
Patti Moll
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Glen Logas
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