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<div class="paragraph"><font size="3"><strong><img alt="" src="https://connect.fundly.com/App_Client/common/directives/ckfinder/core/connector/aspx/connector.aspx?command=View&type=Images&langCode=en&hash=a8568084f876d065&CId=6396&FileName=_4993899.jpg" style="float:left" /></strong></font><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Helen Burgner Douglas-Hart</strong> had a dream of developing English tea gardens and a natural area that would reflect the native habitats of east-central Illinois. In 1963, Helen formed the <a href="https://www.dhnature.org/foundation--staff.html">Douglas-Hart Foundation</a> and created <a href="https://www.dhnature.org/friendship-garden.html">Friendship Garden</a> located at 17th and Lafayette near downtown Mattoon. Friendship Garden has expanded in size and now features a garden waterfall, gazebo, and unique botanical beds. In the 1960's, work started on converting 33 acre farm field into a nature preserve. Today, the Douglas-Hart Nature Center features more than 70 acres of prairie, wetland, and forest habitat. It also provides the people of the surrounding communities the unique opportunity to learn about and discover the wonders of nature.</span></span></div>

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"><strong>Dr. Wesley Whiteside</strong>, was a botany professor at Eastern</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"> Illinois University, teaching numerous subjects such as botany, local flora, plant taxonomy, plant morphology, and mycology. In 1963 he started The <a href="https://www.dhnature.org/whiteside-garden.html">Whiteside Garden</a>.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;"> Over the years, Dr. Whiteside transformed a portion of his farmland on the east side of Charleston into the botanical oasis we know it as today. The Whiteside Garden is a diverse botanical collection covering approximately 5 acres of land and containing thousands of species and different cultivars of plants. The garden features an extensive collection of daylilies, magnolias, and hostas, as well as many rare, threatened, or unique plants to this area that are rarely, if ever, found in nature or other Midwest botanical gardens. Dr. Whiteside was known for his breeding his daylilies. At least eight of his late blooming daylily cultivars are available commercially.</span></span></span><br style="color: rgb(64, 59, 52); font-family: Cabin; background-color: rgb(243, 233, 200);" />
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