West entrance of the Oswald Visitor Center
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The tranquil Kathleen Wright Garden is located just outside the second level entrance to the Oswald Visitor Center, making it the perfect place to start or end a visit to the Arboretum. Fragrant flowering trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals in monochromatic white and grey hues are featured in this garden, creating a peaceful hideaway bounded on one side by a low, stone retaining wall and sheltered by a bosque of linden trees on the hillside.
Passing beneath the wisteria-draped arbor, visitors will discover an enclosed space that culminates at a small labyrinth carved into the grey stone terrace for meditation and contemplation against the soothing backdrop of the sound of bubbling water from the nearby "Meditation Fountain".
Garden Plants
If you're looking for the full list of plants available in the garden, please check out our Plant Finder where you can search by location. Use Visitor Center as the location name.
- American wisteria (Wisteria frutescens 'Aunt Dee')
- Hubricht's bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii)
- Joe-pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum 'Gateway')
- Korean angelica (Angelica gigas)
- Mockorange (Philadelphus lewisii 'Blizzard')
- Oriental lily (Lilium 'Casa Blanca')
- Panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Snow Mountain')
- Solomon's seal (Polygonatum odoratum 'Variegatum')
- Summer Cascade™ american wisteria (Wisteria frutescens 'Betty Matthews')
- White coneflower (Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan')
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