In front of the Oswald Visitor Center
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The Betty Jayne and Kenneth Dahlberg Welcoming Terrace, located in front of the Oswald Visitor Center, serves as a splendid introduction to the Arboretum’s gardens and collections. This wide welcoming walkway has plants with unique foliage colors of red, maroon, chartreuse, green and blue-green. New plants and displays are added to this terrace year-round and no other garden at the Arboretum has this color scheme. The garden also features the "Gabion Wall" enhanced by a dogwood hedge and magnolia trees along with masses of perennials and ornamental grasses. Visitors can stop for an initial photo opportunity or to catch the narrated tram that pulls up in the circle seasonally.
Garden Plants
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- Common lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis 'Thriller')
- Willow amsonia (Amsonia tabernaemontana 'Blue Ice')
- Feather reed grass (Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Karl Foerster')
- Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis 'Minnesota Strain')
- Tatarian dogwood (Cornus alba 'Minbat' Baton Rouge™)
- Hardy hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos 'Luna Pink Swirl')
- Winterberry (Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite')
- Dwarf dutch iris (Iris reticulata 'Harmony')
- Bigleaf ligularia (Ligularia 'Britt Marie Crawford')
- Loebner magnolia (Magnolia × loebneri 'Merrill')
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