Discovery Garden

Discovery Garden The Discovery Garden, a project of the Skills Foundation, is an award-winning public garden located Our thanks to everyone in our community for your support!

The Discovery Garden, a project of the Skills Foundation, is an award-winning public garden located in Legion Park, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Kids’ Kingdom Play Park. Since its opening in 2000, the Garden has become a community and regional sightseeing and gathering destination. This beautiful and peaceful place is dedicated to the memory of Courtney Leigh Claton. In 2008, Disco

very Garden earned the Community Greening Award presented by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Alliance; the award recognizes the creation and maintenance of a public green space that enhances the community. The Discovery Garden is handicapped accessible and includes a Horticultural Therapy Garden maintained by individuals from Skills of Central PA. Other specialty gardens in this inviting botanical space include the Cottage Garden, which earned the 2016 “Garden of Distinction” blue ribbon from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; the Time Garden, which contains one of the largest horizontal sundials on the East Coast; and the Children’s Garden, which includes a potting shed, a rabbit hole tunnel and a rainbow garden. The Discovery Garden also contains the Planting Garden, comprised of raised beds planted in the spring by local elementary school students. Dedicated volunteers maintain this community garden; they work every Thursday morning from April through mid-October. Anyone from the community is welcome to come and work with the group. If you enjoy gardening, or you know someone who does, please visit our website at discoverygardenpa.com or hollidaysburgpa.org for more information.

Looks like the bad weather passed to the south of us.Volunteers will meet at 8:00am at the Gazebo, 👩🏻‍🌾
06/18/2026

Looks like the bad weather passed to the south of us.

Volunteers will meet at 8:00am at the Gazebo, 👩🏻‍🌾

ATTENTION DG Volunteers:Please be on the lookout via this page and on email, by 7:00am tomorrow (Thursday 6/18/26) - in ...
06/18/2026

ATTENTION DG Volunteers:

Please be on the lookout via this page and on email, by 7:00am tomorrow (Thursday 6/18/26) - in case we have bad weather. (Rain, storms, wind). We will cancel, if bad weather.
Thank you👩🏻‍🌾

June 11, 2026. Volunteers at the Discovery Garden. A very hot, but very productive day. We put out 10 yards of mulch. (T...
06/11/2026

June 11, 2026. Volunteers at the Discovery Garden. A very hot, but very productive day. We put out 10 yards of mulch. (Thanks George)!Pics from Leslie Smith.
Thanks for all the help today! Special help from Boy Scout Troop 3117 and Abarta Coca-Cola.👩🏻‍🌾💕👏🏻. George Erb and Marcy Hatch 👏🏻👏🏻

Thursday morning at the Discovery Garden👩🏻‍🌾 Just beautiful, 6/4/2026.
06/04/2026

Thursday morning at the Discovery Garden👩🏻‍🌾
Just beautiful, 6/4/2026.

Join us at 8:00am Thursday June 4, 2026, for our weekly maintenance day. We meet at the Gazebo. Get some physical an...
06/03/2026

Join us at 8:00am Thursday June 4, 2026, for our weekly maintenance day. We meet at the Gazebo.
Get some physical and mental exercise, along with learning & having FUN! 👩🏻‍🌾

June 4, 2026
8:00am
Gazebo

Our volunteer workday tomorrow 5/28/2026 will be low 70’s and sunny. Perfect gardening weather! Please join us at 9:00a...
05/27/2026

Our volunteer workday tomorrow 5/28/2026 will be low 70’s and sunny. Perfect gardening weather!
Please join us at 9:00am, in the Gazebo. Bring gardening gloves. We will supply tools and instructions.
Thank you for your support👩🏻‍🌾

05/26/2026

Another Native Plant Sale - in State College!
Hundreds of wonderful Native Plants! PLUS houseplants, other perennials, and seedlings from various gardeners as well as from the PA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY!

05/23/2026
Due to extreme rain conditions tomorrow morning, our start time for our Thursday volunteer workday will be Noon. That is...
05/20/2026

Due to extreme rain conditions tomorrow morning, our start time for our Thursday volunteer workday will be Noon.

That is 5/21/26 at NOON, for our Thursday volunteer workday.

Thank you for your support👩🏻‍🌾

Our Discovery Garden Plant Sale was a huge success. Thank you to our volunteers, including GFWC Hollidaysburg Area Wom...
05/16/2026

Our Discovery Garden Plant Sale was a huge success.
Thank you to our volunteers, including GFWC Hollidaysburg Area Women’s Club and Blair Garden Club!
Our partners, Skills of Central PA.
Our generous donor greenhouses👩🏻‍🌾❤️

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1501 N. Juniata Streeat
Hollidaysburg, PA
16648

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