Downhill past the entrance to Three-Mile Drive
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The Clotilde Irvine Sensory Garden is designed to stimulate the senses, incorporating plantings and features that welcome visitors with invigorating aromas, lush textures and foliage, brightly hued blooms and the calming sounds of wildlife and trickling water from the "Sensory Garden Fountain". Encouraging a mindful connection to nature, this fully accessible garden was designed for the Arboretum’s Nature-Based Therapeutics program and is a model display of containers and planting designs suitable for a variety of gardening styles and abilities.
Sensory Garden dedication and butterfly release in July 1996.
Garden Plants
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- Brown's honeysuckle (Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet')
- Coneflower (Echinacea 'Cheyenne Spirit')
- Crabapple (Malus 'Prairifire')
- Dotted horsemint (Monarda punctata)
- False indigo (Baptisia 'Solar Flare' Prairieblues™)
- Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba)
- Manchurian lilac (Syringa pubescens subsp. patula 'Miss Kim')
- Tatarian dogwood (Cornus alba 'Regnzam' Red Gnome)
- Threadleaf tickseed (Coreopsis verticillata 'Golden Showers')
- Yellow prairie grass (Sorghastrum nutans 'MNYG318153' Golden Sunset®)
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