ART AND GARDENS WALKING TOUR

Relax and enjoy as you stroll through the gardens at the Arts Center. Marvel at the variety of art and architecture that graces the grounds, take in the sweet scents of flowers in bloom, and experience the beauty of the many heirloom plants and trees that adorn our four-season gardens.

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SPRING
Catch the 1,500 bluebells and daffodils blooming in the spring. Do not miss the magnolia, flowering crabapples, callery pear, redbuds, dogwoods, and the exact moment the larches’ needles shoot out of their spurs.

SUMMER
Enjoy the blooms of the hollyhocks, roses, catalpa, tree peony, rose mallow, sweet peas, plume poppies, hydrangeas, St. John’s wort, coneflowers, black-eyed Susans, and weigelas.

FALL
Appreciate the fall color and form of the burning bushes, Boston ivy, climbing hydrangeas, little bluestem grass, feather reed grass, and oak-leaf hydrangeas. Notice the flowers of the seven sons trees, purple beautyberry, witchhazel, and sedums.

WINTER
Enjoy the fruit of the flowering crabapples, Washington hawthorn, hollies, and Kentucky coffee trees as well as fluttering ornamental grasses that provide great winter interest.