1993
A docent program is established, and expanded staff are hired. A Conditional Use Permit to open the garden is granted…
Category Timeline 3
1984-1993
In preparation for public tours, the Lotusland Foundation repairs paths, improves handicap access and performs deferred maintenance on the house…
1984
Madame Walska dies on March 2 and leaves Lotusland to the Ganna Walska Lotusland Foundation.
1979
The Cycad Garden, designed by Charles Glass, is completed, and features over two hundred species of plants.
1971
Madame Walska auctions her extensive jewelry collection and reinvests the funds back into the garden.
1973-1975
Charles Glass and Robert Foster renovate the Cactus and Succulent Gardens and enlarge and redesign the Aloe Garden.
1972
Madame Ganna Walska is named an Officer of the National Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in…