• Overview
• Arrival Courtyard
• Carpet Beds
• Demonstration Courtyard
• Entry Garden Walk
• Floral Hall Courtyard
• Garden Etiquette
• Garden Hall Courtyard
• Herb Garden
• Kitchen Garden
• Knot Garden
• Nature's Garden
• President's
  Choice Show Garden
• Special Exhibits
• Spiral Mound
• Strawbale Shed
• Teaching Garden
• Terrace Garden
• Westview
  Terrace
• Woodland Walk

Knot gardens demonstrate the formal art of pruning and shaping plants in a defined garden space. They first appeared in English, French and Italian gardens in the sixteenth century. This unique knot garden offers an abstract contemporary twist to traditional knot garden design. Deciduous, broadleaf and evergreen hedges have been combined in a variety of heights and shapes and punctuated by pyramidal forms. The Knot Garden can be viewed from the top of the Spiral Mound.

HIGHLIGHTS

• This unique knot garden offers an abstract contemporary twist to traditional knot garden design. Deciduous, broadleaf and evergreen hedges have been combined in a variety of heights and shapes and are punctuated by pyramidal and fastigiated (cluster of parallel, erect branches) forms.
  
• A variety of pruning techniques designed to regulate and control the growth of plants are demonstrated in this garden.
  
• The species selected can withstand rigorous and regular pruning and shaping. The form, colour and texture of the hedges define the structure of the garden and provide yearround interest long after the perennials have finished blooming.
  
• The Knot Garden can be viewed from the top of the Spiral Mound.