Foxfire Botanical Gardens

{{Short description|Former botanical garden in Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States}}

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The Foxfire Botanical Gardens (or Foxfire Gardens) were 15 acres of botanical gardens located on the outskirts of Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_oVQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4hIEAAAAIBAJ&dq=foxfire%20gardens%20marshfield&pg=2596%2C5324369 "Foxfire Gardens Is Cherished State Secret"], Milwaukee Sentinel, June 24, 1992.[http://www.weau.com/wanderingwisconsin/headlines/44091107.html "Foxfire Botanical Gardens"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032532/http://www.weau.com/wanderingwisconsin/headlines/44091107.html |date=2016-03-04 }}, WEAU, April 30, 2009.Gary G. Knowles. The Great Wisconsin Touring Book: 30 Spectacular Auto Trips (Big Earth Publishing, 2006), {{ISBN|978-1931599672}}, p. 56. [https://books.google.com/books?id=yAVR4w8eVJEC&dq=%22foxfire+gardens%22+marshfield&pg=PA56 Excerpts available] at Google Books.

Founded in 1983, these philosophical gardens were the first of their kind.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} Seven of its acres have been cultivated into Eastern and Western style display gardens, ranging from European topiary to Japanese so and gyo gardens. In 2003, the site was granted botanical garden status by the state of Wisconsin after fulfilling requirements in both display garden criteria and community programs.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}}

The gardens closed in 2009 after a civil jury awarded a substantial judgment against the owners in connection with business dealings unrelated to the gardens.Liz Welter, [http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/article/20090504/MNH0101/905040376/Civil-case-could-foreclose-gardens "Civil case could foreclose gardens"], Marshfield News-Herald, May 3, 2009.[https://archive.today/20130216165226/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/marshfieldnewsherald/access/1856416041.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+09,+2009&author=Liz+Welter&pub=Marshfield+News+Herald&desc=Foxfire+Gardens+closed&pqatl=google "Foxfire Gardens closed"], Marshfield News-Herald, September 9, 2009 (pay site).