Sensory Garden

The sensory garden was designed by Stuart Fulbright to entice all the senses through the colors, textures, and sounds of both plants and artistic man-made objects. 

Can you tell what the large insect-like structure in the center is? You have to imagine what it would look like from above, incorporating the garden beds on either side. Did you guess butterfly? 

Along the edge of the sensory garden, near the great lawn, is a grass that is very beautiful and tall in the winter, Maiden Grass. Though this is not a native grass, it does have a lovely look this time of year. As you walk through the sensory garden, look for lambs ear close to the ground. It is known for its super soft leaves! It has dense silk-like hair that gives it a silver color over its green leaves. This little Turkish plant keeps its unique foliage year-round.

Leave this garden out the back and find the large red "T". What could this be? It is a bat roost. Bats hang upside down in between the slats of wood along the top. This roost was made for the native Big Brown Bat, which eats garden pests like beetles. Bats hibernate in the winter and must not be disturbed until spring because there is no food for them this time of year.