Photos by Emily Chen
rocks” are just one of the garden’ s many interactive landscaping features designed to draw visitors deeper into nature. There’ s a wealth, in fact, of hands-on design programming woven into the garden’ s landscaping: Guests can smell, taste, and touch to their hearts’ content in a special sensory garden area, pose for photos beneath a vine-ensconced gazebo, admire seasonal produce among the garden’ s raised-bed planters, or simply kick back and relax( with a library book, perhaps)
in one of the Adirondack chairs that graces the garden’ s open space.
Thanks to a diligent application of expertise( and, in the warmer months, plenty of sweat equity) from local Master Gardeners, the garden also serves as an eye-opening showcase for plants that naturally thrive in Limestone County. The North Alabama Native Plants Society estimates that 90 percent of the plants in the garden are native to the area: irises, dogwoods, honeysuckle, azalea,
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