The Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids (MI, of the Meijer retail chain) features extensive gardens of many types, including a tropical conservatory, large children's garden, farm garden depicting practices and plants of the 1930s Depression Era, and more. The Gardens serve as a setting for the internationally renown sculpture collection of the Meijers. For more including events, sculpture listing, and gardens, visit their website.
Marching Band by Stuart Padnos
entrance bed with ornamental cabbage and kale
entrance bed with various colors, sculpture, Jade Princess ornamental millet
conifers and foliage, near English garden near conservatory and entrance
Children of the World by Kirk Newman
Friendly Dragons by Marshall Fredericks
log cabin in children's garden
raised water feature in children's garden
Grandpa, The Storyteller by Victor Issa
touch plants in sensory garden, hand sculpture
heirloom vegetables in farm garden
girl watering sculpture at farmhouse
The American Horse by Nina Akamu-- based on the vision by Leonardo DaVinci of a 3x life size horse, this 14ton 24ft bronze was one of two cast in 2007 for $2.38million, one being sent to Milan Italy; perhaps the most photographed and well-known sculpture in the gardens
Cabin Creek by Deborah Butterfield
Neuron by Roxy Paine --3500 stainless steel rods and piping, from 2011
Eve by Auguste Rodin (1881)
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