The 87-foot-long dragon in Botanica’s new Chinese Garden of Friendship holds his favorite treasure in his mouth – a pearl. Mike Hutmacher The Wichita Eagle Visitors to Botanica can be ...

With the rap of a gong and a few dancing, leaping dragons, Botanica’s new Chinese ... the garden. People wandered across the Thousand-Foot Bridge – which represents Wichita’s friendship ...

Botanica is finalizing a contract with Simpson Construction Services to construct a Chinese garden. © 2025 American City Business Journals. All rights reserved. Use ...

Marty Miller spent the last 15 years at Botanica and 22 years with the City of Wichita ... to transform the garden — the Downing Children’s Garden, the Chinese Garden of Friendship, the ...

Taking advantage of pleasant early-summer weather Thursday, Botanica celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Chinese Garden of Friendship ... serves as a tribute to Wichita's sister city, Kaifeng ...

WICHITA — The Wichita Botanica is planning an expansion that will include a new $1.35 million events center and Chinese garden. Wichita’s City Council earlier this week approved a bid to ...

I was happy that I made time for my last stop, the expansive and beautiful Botanica Wichita botanical ... including the new Chinese Garden of Friendship. The Chinese garden is lovely and serene ...

Dawn Hewitt (Courtesy: City of Wichita) Botanica opened in 1987 and features 18 acres of garden scaping, including more than 4,000 species of plants, 50 sculptures and an annual attendance of more ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Wichita’s Botanica has been nominated again for USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice: Best Botanical ...

A popular Wichita holiday light show was named the fifth best botanical garden holiday light show by USA Today. Botanica’s Illuminations, a Wichita holiday staple, was nominated by a panel of ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Botanica’s Illuminations rounded out the list of the USA Today’s 10Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights for 2022. After the public voting, the annual Wichita holiday ...

Dawn Hewitt has been named the new director of Botanica, the Wichita Gardens ... “Botanica is a wonderful example of a garden being a space where nature and art intersect, creating beautiful ...