In front of the Oswald Visitor Center
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The Betty Jayne and Kenneth Dahlberg Welcoming Terrace serves as a splendid introduction to the Arboretum’s gardens and collections. Its wide, welcoming walkway has plants with 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, which is enhanced by a dogwood hedge and magnolia trees and masses of perennials and ornamental grasses. Visitors can stop for a photo opportunity or 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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