• Admissions, Hours & Directions
  • Days Featuring Special Admission Rates
• What’s New
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• What You’ll See
• Garden Spaces
  • Bald Cypress Allée
  • Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing
  • CoHort’s Patio Garden
  • DeeAnn Drew Shade Garden
  • Dr. Griffith J. Buck Rose Collection
  • Dunlap Entry Courtyard
  • East Entry Garden
  • Edible Garden
  • Front Yard Garden
  • Heirloom Garden
  • Helen Latch Jones Rose Garden
  • Hillside Water-wise Garden
  • Home Demonstration Gardens
  • Hughes Conservatory
  • Joey and Jesse’s Herb Garden
  • Lake Helen
  • Margaret E. Penkhus Campanile Garden
  • Naturalist Garden
  • North Lawn
  • North Mixed Border
  • Outdoor Living Room
  • Patty Jischke Children’s Garden
  • Prairie Vista Garden
  • Reflection Garden
  • Ross Formal Lawn Garden
  • Roy & Mary Amos Smith Hardwood Forest
  • Rust Events Plaza
  • South Field
  • South Mixed Border
  • South Patio
  • Sunny Side Yard
  • Sycamore Falls
  • Trial and Display Gardens
  • Walled Court
  • West Entry Garden
• What You’ll Enjoy
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  • Relaxing Stroll
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Current Exhibition

2023 theme: Light and Reflection

1 hardwood forest