The Friends of the Woodlawn Library are very excited about the landscaping on the site. Fulfilling an early city plan by William P. Bancroft, the site will connect Bancroft Parkway with green space. Beautiful landscaping and a wonderful children’s playground have been designed by Rodney Robinson Landscape Architects and will make the library a lovely asset to the City of Wilmington.

Some highlights of the plan include:

• A lovely pedestrian promenade that cuts diagonally across the park and connects the corner of Grant and 8th Street to a pedestrian bridge spanning the railroad tracks.  Benches line the promenade.
  
• Whimsical and engaging children’s play areas running through the site. One of the library’s important missions is to educate children, and effort has been made to make the library a place that families will enjoy. In keeping with this, the landscape plan includes educational outdoor children’s activities like a number maze, a streamscape garden. and a letter hunt along the interior path as well as a playground for active, physical play.
  
• The preservation of all of the mature sycamore trees on the site. Several will have circular benches around them so patrons can enjoy the park in its shady interior.
  
• A beautiful bronze sculpture, the “Sunflower Girl,” by renowned Delaware sculptor Charles Parks, will be set in the center of the park as a focal point. The sculpture was given to us by New Castle County.

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