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, I l\" 1 Jefferson Garden: This garden is scientists are using for hybrid programs to r- lo designed around the plants Thomas improve the yield of field crops such as corn r /'~- "t -r- Jefferson wrote about and used in his and soybeans. The DNA chromosome- garden in Monticello, including columbine, shaped walk down the center is a reminder dwarf red buckeye, vitex, vinca, hickory of the science behind the hybridizing / and tulip poplar. The statue ofJefferson, techniques. Ginkgo·, eastern witch hazel, writing the Declaration of Independence, mint, skullcap and chamomile, among 1\bounding in ann~al and perennial floral displays, ,woo y plant . and his original grave monument are the others, are found here . anchor points of the garden. Donor: Lowell and Marian Miller Donor: Trustees of the Jefferson Club Native Missouri Tree Collection: Triangle Floral Display Gardens: 17 This collection of trees, all native to 11 The two triangle beds on the north Missouri, displays the diverse flora found in side ofJesse Hall mirror each other and the state. Trees such as sour gum, found in , the garden is a fertile xear-r0und academic are anchored by a group of three Susan the Ozarks; white fringe tree, native to the magnolias and variegated maidenhair grass. extreme southern part of the state; sassafras, cators, researchers and students and, for visitors, Around the edges a changing seasonal which grows statewide; paw-paw, a hardy annual display is planted. tropical looking small tree; and hackberry ns of colorful and fragrant floral delights. Plants used here include pansies, waffle are growing in this garden. plant, Mexican petunia, wave petunias and Donor: Allan and Vivian Purdy Diamond Frost euphorbia. Butterfly Garden: Butterflies are Marilyn Lacey McMullen 18 the focus of this garden. Any plant 12 Memorial Garden: This is the that butterflies or their larvae feed on can location, now rededicated, of MBG's be found here. Many Missouri natives are first planting. It still maintains some of included to expand the selection. Buddleia, 1 the original plantings including white butterflyweed, coneflowers, abelia, hardy dogwood and Girard's Rose azalea. Later geraniums, black-eyed Susan, cupflower, additions include Bracken's Brown Beauty liatris, wild petunia, vitex, passionflower southern magnolia, Skip cherry laurel and and black chokeberry are growing here. dwarf oakleaf hydrangea. Donor: Larry L. McMullen Container Gardens: There are three Memorial Union Annual Flower container gardens within the campus: South 13 Garden: The large bed on either Jesse Hall Plaza, Lowry Mall and Speaker's side of the Union arch along Hitt Street is Circle. These gardens are seasonally planted planted with a seasonally changing display with flowering annuals, vibrant tropicals, evergreens and contrasting plant textures to This garden features of annuals and tropical plants. Winter ~nds The Gardens on the Carnahan Peony Garden: garden phlox such as Phlox Red Riding provide interest, variety and a demonstration several selections of herbaceous peony pansies and wheat grass in contrasting Quadrangle: The Mel Carnahan 4 Hood, Laura, David and Nicki. Other / of cutting-edge horticulture. Quadrangle is named in memory of the including Monsieur Jules Elie, Krinkled plants include English roses, Royal Candle 1 patterns, and summer is a wild splash of former governor's service to the state of White, Raspberry Sunday, Coral and Gold veronica and Ellie astilbe. color with such plants as purple shield, Tree Trails: Three self- Missouri. Each triangular theme garden is and High Noon, a yellow-flowering tree various cannas, elephant ears, bananas, Donor: Peggy Ewing guided tours featuring the united to the whole by a planting of Prairie peony. Other plants include old-fashioned ake Mizzou a more beautiful place • black-eyed Susan, salvia and many others. I ' di verse selection of trees on 1'! ' The Gardens on Francis and leave a personal mark on ' f.i. Fire crabapple and Swamp White Oaks. roses, dwarf forsythia and Mt. Fuji spirea. Ellis Perennial Garden: This ..l..' ;,ti - ~ the University of Missouri Quadrangle: Each building around the our historic campus. perennial and shrub display on ' ' (\',..),~\•,,·.l- \. ,\•• ''t' ~. The Beetle Bailey Garden: This garden Donor: Hook Family Foundation 14 campus can be accessed \ -..... · ,_ - ''. quadrangle has a planting of perennials For bench-naming opportunities and the west side of Ellis Library contains 1planted around the sculpture of Mort Hardy Geranium Garden: This with a brochure or through and shrubs. Plants growing here include other gifts, contact Mizzou Botanic Garden many shade- and sun-loving plants. The Walker's cartoon character, Beetle Bailey, garden features many selections of the Mizzou Botanic Garden website, 5 variegated iris, hellebore, Blue Angel hosta, at (573) 882-1830 or gardens.missouri.edu central grassy area creates a viewing and includes Henry summersweet, switchgrass, hardy geranium including geranium Blue www.gardens.missouri.edu. variegated Solomon's seal, dawn redwood, walking space to study the large collection Crispa spirea and red day lilies. Sunrise, Gravetye, Nimbus and Rozanne. tricolor beech and goldenchain tree. of plants. My Mary azalea, stokes aster, Jesse Hall Loop Donor: Patrick Farrell Other plants include Knock Out rose, Purple This trail winding around the south and Candles astilbe, September Charm anemone, Rothwell Garden: This long and shrub clematis, Japanese anemone, Frances Siberian Iris Garden: This garden north sides of Jesse Hall, the Francis Pee Wee hydrangea and Kobold liatris. 8 narrow garden on the northwest Williams hosta and catmint are just a few 2 features selections of Siberian Iris. Cultivars end of Francis Quadrangle is a display of plants found here. Quadrangle and McAlester Park features include Caesar's Brother, Butter and Sugar, Donor: Mr. Darden Rhodes perennials and hardy shrubs. The bench Arts and Sciences Mall Display such trees as red oak, double-flowering Christmas Wish, Pink Haze and Fourfold Coneflower Garden: This garden at one end is a great place to study the Garden: This series of garden horsechestnut, yellow-berried American White. Other plants include Blue Mist features coneflowers, including the 15 6 plants. Roses, yellow kniphofia, peonies, beds down the center of the mall includes holly, dawn redwood and tricolor beech. fothergilla, Gulf Stream nandina, Early Missouri native yellow coneflower and Harbor Dwarf nandina, yarrow, Chinese both perennial and annual displays. The 1 Lowry Mall Loop Scout peony and Champlain rose. pale coneflower, and cultivars of purple witch hazel and many other plants are shade of littleleaf lindens in the beds This trail starting at Lowry Mall and Donor: David J. Ives coneflower including Ruby Star, Magus growing here. 1 create conditions good for shade-loving circling the Ellis Library features such trees and Pink Double Delight. This garden also Donor: Mt: and Mrs. G.F. Rothwell IV Asiatic and Oriental 1 plants such as toad lilies, Christmas rose, as scarlet oak, cutleaf beech, willow leaf oak, features white roses, a favorite of garden Lily Garden: This ' yellow flowering barrenwort, Visions in 3 patron Susan Skelton. Other plants include Eighth Street Circle Garden redbud, weeping white pine, Purple Robe garden features "true" lilies Pink astilbe and Japanese anemone. Each golden-leaved spirea, Amsonia, Fire Power 9 This circular garden at the terminus locust and Saucer magnolia. grown from bulbs that of Eighth Street features a changing annual summer the annual display changes and nandina and Eenie Weenie day lily. Memorial Union Loop thrive in the mid-Missouri display each year with begonias, lantana, often features exotic begonias, impatiens Donor: Friends and Family of Susie Skelton This trail located on the White Campus climate. Cultivars include Petite Brigitte, cuphia and mums. In the late fall through and caladiums. Rouge Pixie, Pink Trumpet and Stargazer. around the Memorial Union features such Perennial Phlox Garden: This garden winter, pansies are planted. Discovery Garden: This garden Other plants include White Swan coneflower, 7 features several phlox species. Among Mizzou Botanic Garden trees as Persian parrotia, white oak, red Donors: Glen and Myrtle Dossey; Delmar University of .Missouri 16 features medicinal and research Ruffled Ruby day lily and creeping mahonia. these are red creeping phlox, cultivars of horsechestnut, hardy rubber tree, Japanese and Reta Ryan; and Hubert, Thelma and plants that some of our medicines of today tree lilac, yellowwood and Giant dogwood. Donor: Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity Sweet William and several selections of Campus Facilities Communicati ons, Glen Cook revised, August 2016 come from and that University of Missouri , ... --~~ ? ,, .. ,.. \. r \•:. /i.,. - ~'),< I... ,• ...._ - - /, // . ' ? , ; -.