Native grasses, flowers part of new 10,000-square-foot garden
By Paul Wood
Wednesday June 10, 2009
Heather Coit
Beth Wohlgemuth of Champaign, a librarian for Illinois Natural History Survey, plants native prairie plants around Richard Hunt's 1982 sculpture, 'Growing In Illinois' near the entrance of the UI Vet Met building in Urbana on Saturday. Members of UI Vet Med, Grand Prairie Friends, Illinois Natural History Survey and the general public volunteered their time to plant about 8,000 prairie plants around about 10,000 square feet of of empty space.
URBANA – Prairie plants are making a comeback at the University of Illinois.
At its South Lincoln Avenue home, the College of Veterinary Medicine's Basic Sciences Building is now surrounded by 8,000 seedlings of the plants that were there before the plow broke the sod.
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