Caze Elementary School’s building surrounds a beautiful interior courtyard that has been developed into an outdoor classroom for the students, which was established in 2005. Most recently an after-school garden club has been created, integrating many gardening and environmental topics into the curriculum. The children take lessons on gardening, nutrition, plant growth, wildlife, and other pertinent topics. Together with Master Gardeners, the children learn how to start seeds, plant, and care for the plants, which include vegetables, herbs, annuals, perennials, and berries.  The program provides valuable education to the children and allows them the opportunity to eat food that they have grown themselves.

SWIMGA maintains five flower beds at the Vanderburgh County 4-H Center on Evansville’s north side, near the intersection of Boonville-New Harmony Road and Highway 41 North.  The garden beds are located near the auditorium, around the flagpole, and on the shore of the lake.  Each garden showcases a wide variety of spring and summer bulbs, perennials, ornamental grasses, and annuals. 

The Hartman Arboretum is located NW of Evansville. It is one half mile north of State Road 66, Diamond Ave, at Cynthiana Road, near the German Township Booster Club.

The Hartman Arboretum was founded in 2001 to provide an outdoor classroom for schoolchildren, as well as a place where other visitors could enjoy nature and learn about the diversity of trees and shrubs found in Southern Indiana. 

The Arboretum has about 500 trees of all varieties, including 15 different Redbud cultivars and 18 types of Oaks. Other areas of interest include the Wildlife Garden which was planned and developed by Master Gardeners and includes nectar plants and host plants for a multitude of butterflies.

Located on Evansville’s northwest side, Jacob’s Village supports adults with functional disabilities in their pursuit of developing life skills, interests, and maximum independence. The SWIMGA project is based entirely on educating the residents about plants and seeds. It started with one resident wanting to raise a garden and grew into SWIMGA helping to establish multiple flowerbeds along the winding drive. Where the blacktop ends, a wandering stone-covered path leads past several butterfly gardens into a Meditation Garden located deep in a woods. 

A recent project turned a flood prone ditch and eroded hillside into a wildflower garden using various donated material including recycled mulch, rip-rap, clover, plants, and seeds.

Opening in 2008, Amazonia is a breathtaking exhibit of plants and animals native to South American rain forests. It is located at the Mesker Park Zoo and Botanical Garden on Evansville’s northwest side. The SWIMGA plant docent program provides an educational link between the living plant collection at Amazonia and the visitors to Mesker Park. Reaching thousands of interested visitors yearly, the docents engage the public and teach visitors about the unique plant life around them.

SWIMGA volunteers meet every other Tuesday throughout the year at the Parkview Home, a senior care facility located on the north side of Evansville. At this facility, they work with the residents in the raised vegetable bed, the windowsill garden, and the outdoor garden area. The project work and interaction with the Parkview residents helps spark their memories, increases their socialization, and brightens their lives. 

Sunrise Park, located off Veteran’s Memorial Parkway on Waterworks Road, has been developed into a high profile, activity filled area. It is rarely without someone enjoying the garden and other beautiful scenery along the Ohio River.

The areas maintained and planted by SWIMGA consist of two beds on either side of the gazebo in the front of the ornamental grasses, and the front circular bed that welcomes visitors into the park. The emphasis on these butterfly friendly beds has been low maintenance, drought tolerant perennials, and large drifts of annual zinnias and salvias.  Educational programs are offered during the summer months for children.

This project was voted SWIMGA Project of the Year 2005, KEB Community Adopt-A-Spot of the Year 2006, and KEB Distinguished Adopter Award 2007 and 2008.

This garden is located inside the Wesselman’s Nature Preserve at the back of Wesselman Park on Boeke Road, on Evansville’s east side.  To reach the garden, take a short walk through the woods to the clearing by the pond. 

Since the garden is located inside the nature preserve, only native plants may be incorporated in the garden. Therefore, visitors will not find popular butterfly plants like zinnias and petunias.  Instead, the garden includes a variety of native plants, an interesting change from what is found in the typical garden.