Dear Jill,
When I worked on Grounds as a job, the sunken garden was the highest maintenance area of the whole campus. A woman named Hazel somebody managed the greenhouse and sunken garden, instead of us. When she retired, the greenhouse was closed and the sunken garden was put into less high maintenance species that took all it's showcase-ness away from it. (by the way I got married in 1972, in the sunken garden myself, in it's heyday of show stopping flowers)
I highly agree with you that the sunken garden would be the perfect high traffic area, now dull, to become the pollinator display garden. And it wouldn't take the maintenance of the showy flower garden it used to be. Lots of people are attracted to that spot because of it's staired sunken quaintness the Olmsted Brother's designed into the original Capitol grounds landscaping. Thanks for being there Jill. I hope your idea comes true.
Jean Shaffer (formerly Jean Stam)
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