Children's Discovery Garden
Since 2004, Ayr Hill Garden Club has maintained a child-high garden designed to stimulate interest in the poetic names, color, form, texture, variety, and scent of both traditional and new plants. In the fall of 2015 the much visited Children’s Discovery Garden was moved with the help of the Town of Vienna to its new location along side The Caboose in Centennial Park. The new beds were raised with a surrounding walkway that includes fun elements appealing to children.
It was featured as the background for a news report about Viva Vienna
Plant List
*Square Bed
Dwarf Hinoki Cyprus (Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Nana’)
Drift Rose in red (Rosa hybrida ‘Drift’)
Bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana)
Lavender (Lavandula intermedia, ‘Phenomenal’)
Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Carpet Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans)
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*Narrow Oblong Bed
Drift, roses in pink (Rosa hybrida ‘Drift’)
Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens’)
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia, ‘Munstead’)
Crocus Dwarf spruce (Picea glauca)
Blazing star (Liatris spicata)
*Large Rectangular Bed
Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana)
Iris (Iris virginica)
Aster (Stokesia laevis ‘Peachie’s pick’)
Golden alexander (Zizea aurea)
Virginia sweetspire (Itea virginica)
Golden ragwort (Packera aurea)
Joe pye weed (Eutrochium purpureum)
Daffodils
Tulips
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Bee balm (Monarda didyama)
Red twigged dogwood (Cornus sericea ‘ Baileyi’)