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Garden UpdatesPeriod Garden Park Fundraiser 2025The volunteers of Period Garden Park invite you to a fundraiser and dedication our newly-restored marble garden urn in honor of Joe Bonardi, whose creativity and hard work brought the garden to life.
Sunday, September 28th, 2025
Enjoy the early-autumn beauty of the garden, light refreshments, and good company. Your support helps keep the garden growing.
Questions or want to donate before the event? - Period Garden Park volunteers, 9/5/25 August 2025 Garden Newsletter - Period Garden Park volunteers, 8/1/25 July 2025 Garden Newsletter - Period Garden Park volunteers, 7/2/25 June 2025 Garden Newsletter We've added a bulletin board in the Pinckney Street entrance to the garden to keep the community up to date about our upcoming events. The newsletter also includes notes on what is blooming in the garden, as well as a garden-themed poem. - Period Garden Park volunteers, 6/1/25 Fall 2024This fall you will notice that our beautiful mid-ninetheenth century marble urn has been removed from the garden. It has been brought indoors for cleaning and restoration. Jacob Arndt, architectural stone mason will be performing the restoration on the Urn. Arndt's carved enrichments can be found in two U.S. State Capital buildings and London's British Museum, as well as local architectural terra cotta work in the Memorial Union and University Club on campus, State Office buildings, and Taliesin. He continues to work here and in the European Union on historic preservation masonry projects, a trade his family has been in for generations beginning in Mineral Point, WI. Arndt is a native of Madison and has been principal of Northwestern Masonry & Stone Co. since 1979. The urn will be cleaned, repaired and moved to a more prominent site near the weeping mulberry tree. The restoration is dedicated to the memory of Joe Bonardi. Starting in 2007, Joe Bonardi transformed Period Garden, which was not well-maintained the time, into the beautiful place it is today. Joe passed away suddenly last summer and our dedicated group of volunteers have carried on work in his memory. Support this project by donating to the garden. - Period Garden Park volunteers, 10/16/24 |
