Gardens
- Entrance Drive - seasonal annuals, evergreen weeping white pines, native oak groves, natural meadows and woodlands with native prairie wildflowers and wild grasses.
- Garden Gatehouse - drought tolerant ornamental plants (mainly native). Dogwood, redbuds, and red sumac, ornamental grasses, and annuals.
- Parking Lot - arboretum of all shrubs and trees native to Kansas and Missouri, with native grasses, shrubs and trees.
- Conservatory - a 50 by 50 foot (15 by 15 m) glass house with seasonal orchids, tropical plants, chrysanthemums, and poinsettias.
- Terrace Beds and Wall - annuals and tropicals.
- Dogwood Walk - almost every variety of dogwood, including flowering dogwood, hybrid dogwoods, and Kousa dogwoods, with roses and magnolias.
- Island Garden - more than 200 varieties of water plants.
- Meadow - native prairie grasses and flowers, burned each spring.
- Chapel Walk and Landscape - native oak-hickory woodland with native woodland wildflowers, including a collection of many varieties of redbud tree.
- Rock & Waterfall Garden - azaleas and rhododendrons, ferns, bleeding hearts, hostas, astilbes, giant butterburs and spring bulbs.
- Perennial Garden - more than 1,200 varieties, including daylilies, daffodils, hibiscus, and hardy asters and chrysanthemums, with ornamental grasses, against an evergreen background.
- Byron Shutz Nature Trail - 3 miles (4.8 km) of trail with native and naturalized trees, shrubs, grasses and wildflowers, including biscuitroot, draba, and prairie-plum.
- Heartland Harvest Garden - 12-acre (49,000 m2) garden featuring popular fruits and vegetables, showcasing "the journey of food from seed to plate." This garden features a French country style kitchen garden, greenhouses, a vinyard of native and European grapes, Quilt Gardens of local farm produce, and a youth education garden called the Fun Foods Farm.
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