University of Kentucky Arboretum
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The University of Kentucky Arboretum (40 hectares or 100 acres) is located in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, and open to the public dawn to dusk every day of the year.
It contains a Home Demonstration Garden, Vegetable Garden, Herb Garden, Home Fruit and Nuts Garden (including Black, Persian and Japanese Walnuts, Pecan, Shellbark and Shagbark Hickory, Chinese Chestnut as well as dwarf apple cultivars, an American Persimmon and native Pawpaw trees), the All America Selection Trials Garden, Perennial Collection, Ground Cover Demonstration, Woody Plant Collection, and a "Walk Across Kentucky" that simulates Kentucky's seven regional landscapes: Bluegrass, Knobs, Appalachian Plateaus, Cumberland Mountains, Mississippian Plateaus and Outer Nashville Basin (Pennyroyal), Shawnee Hills, Mississippian Embayment and Alluvial Basin (Jackson Purchase).
The Arboretum was created in 1991, at which time it was overrun with non-native invasive plants such as honeysuckle and euonymous. The removal of such invasive plants has been and continues to be a major goal of Arboretum staff and volunteers.
See also
External Link
- University of Kentucky Arboretum (http://www.uky.edu/Arboretum/)
