• Arkansas Bamboo Connection
   
• Cantrell Gardens partnering with Access Schools

"Enjoy "A World of Gardening" in your own backyard. We mix a formal English garden, a rich and exotic Oriental garden, and a lush tropical garden in a single space. Appropriate water features and statuary define each garden style and a wide variety of plants are used throughout the space."

• Garvan Woodland Gardens “A Child’s Dream Garden”

Nothing gets kids out into the garden like a tree house.  Have fun with the little ones in a very special tree house modeled after upcoming attractions planned at the Evans Children's Adventure Garden at Garvan Woodland Gardens.  See a happy home for bees, complete with an artistic interpretation of a kid-sized beehive and an assortment of garden flowers that bees and butterflies love.  It's a cottage garden extracted from the pages of your favorite children's book.  Come and enjoy.

• Grand Designs

Every plant has its own world in and of itself. Our garden will display a variety of plant types. Plant environment, placement and overall aesthetics will be showcased. This Grand Design will be sure to inspire and move you to create your own paradise. Let us introduce you to the perfect plant to enhance your World of Gardening!

• The Ozark Folk Center

Let your imagination travel to all parts of the globe with our Victorian era gardener, as she wonders, “Where did this plant come from?” She dreams of the plant explorers and faraway lands amidst a parlour filled with exotic and useful plants from all over the world, whilst waiting for the springtime awakening of her garden in the Ozark hills.

The Ozark Folk Center State Park exists to preserve, document, display and interpret the cultural and social history of the Ozark region before 1941. Vegetation is at the root of this history, beginning with the subsistence and spiritual uses of plants by the earliest peoples to the exploration and utilization of the botanical riches by European immigrants. Plants are at the base of the food chain for all mammals, are natural resources for the production of clothing, dyes, fragrance, medicine, seasoning, shelter, tools and weapons and are therefore key commodities in trade and industry.

The herbs growing within the Heritage Herb Garden are not necessarily native to the Ozark region. Because growing conditions can be adjusted to suit the needs of just about any specimen, we can exhibit plants from all over the world. They must have some tie to the history of the region or some relevant importance. A particular plant could have been contained in products of that era, such as an ingredient for toiletries, textiles or insect control. It may have been an old-time pass-along or parlour plant, grown for pleasure. Every plant in the Heritage Herb Garden has a story that begins at the place on earth where it was first found growing and made useful by human beings.

In order to grow herbs from places other than the Ozarks it is good to know everything about the environment from which they come. All plants are native to particular biomes. Biomes are geographical areas of the world that are inhabited by plant and animal communities adapted to the environmental conditions found in the regions. The environmental conditions are created by climate and geography. World biomes that are not under water include tundra, taiga, grassland, deciduous forest, chaparral, desert, desert-scrub, savanna, rainforest and alpine.

• Horticare Nursery

What better way to discover nature’s diversity than through our interpretation of “A World of Gardening!” We invite you to explore a hidden assortment of landscaping elements that will take you from the Orient to the Caribbean and then bring you back to the South. You will journey into the garden through unique arbors and follow distinctive pathways that lead you through a variety of native plants, hardscapes, water features, and an impressive, yet functional, outdoor room.

• The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and Arkansas Master Gardeners “The Backyard Vegetable Garden”

Do you want to grow vegetables for your family in your own backyard? Do you love to cook and want the freshest produce and most flavorful herbs right at your doorstep? Are you an experienced gardener who is still having some problems growing certain plants or wants new ideas for your garden? The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and the Arkansas Master Gardeners are here to help you.

We’ll show you how to grow fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers in raised beds and containers. We’ll start at the beginning by showing you how to start your own seedlings and move right on to teaching you about composting and amending your soil. We will demonstrate ways to conserve water in your garden and also extend the length of time that you can be harvesting fresh homegrown goodies from your garden.

We’ll have plenty of garden experts available to answer your questions. You can even bring in leaf and twig samples of plants that aren’t doing well in your garden for our “Plant Dr.” to diagnose.

 Let us show you the many ways that the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture can help you make your garden a success!