Four Seasons: Located near the Visitor Pavilion, the Four Seasons Garden features a wide brick walkway bounded by a unique collection of broadleaf evergreens, conifers, succulents and groundcovers with a special emphasis on winter interest. This garden offers enticing sights and fragrances, showing off the possibilities of a Zone 7 garden throughout the seasons.

Cottage: The Cottage Garden highlights heirlooms used by pre-1920 Southern gardeners, including your grandmother’s favorites. Many are considered "pass-along" plants that are not readily available in the trade. The Cottage Garden features six beds, totaling 8,000 square feet, each containing a unique collection of bulbs, annuals, perennials and fragrant shrubs.

Canal: The Canal Garden consists of a four-foot wide, 255-foot water feature anchored by dancing fountains. Herringbone walkways border each side of the canal, accented by 16 containers of palms. The outer beds contain large, leafy plants in vibrant, saturated colors. Most of the perennial flowers and grasses here are hardy despite their tropical appearance.

Perennial: The Perennial Garden is composed of four "rooms," separated by hedges of trees and shrubs that create a feeling of enclosure:

• In the Allee Garden, soft shades of violet and yellow move through a restful tunnel of trees. Beyond the allee is a bright color scheme of blue-violet and yellow facing red-violet and yellow across the water tunnel.

• The Scroll Garden is a spiraled area based solely on soft, airy plants that attract butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators. The innermost bed contains plants that are short in stature and get larger as the spiral widens. Of special interest are the broad sweeps of Rain Lilies in the spiral’s center (Zephyranthes and Habranthus) that put up dainty, white flowers in spring and summer after soaking rains.

• The Ribbon Garden celebrates the strong, hot, saturated colors of the spectrum. The first pair of planting beds focuses on red-violet and hot purple. The middle beds are a mix of red, yellow and orange. The last bed concentrates on flowers of pure, lemon-peel yellow and cream. On the perimeter are xeric plants that need little supplemental watering and brightly-colored natives.

• The Serpentine Garden is home to an exquisite crown fountain surrounded by several distinct color groupings. Many shades of pink can be found here, from burgundy and rose-red pink to bluish, bubblegum pink. A planting of silver and white contains touches of blue. Creamy whites and soft yellows predominate as warm pastels. A green bed places a special emphasis on foliage and texture.
  
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