Flowers of Tower Grove
Park
A
garden is a friend you can visit anytime, and Tower Grove
Park is such a friend. After all the root word to our particular
landscape style, gardenesque is garden.
In the garden we find flowers and flowers
can define borders, lighten dark corners, soften landscapes,
and refresh the spirit and senses of visitors.
Tower
Grove Park represents the preservation of the Victorian urban
park. This could not be accomplished without the use of annual
floral displays. These flowers bring form and texture to the
seasons. Their colors and fragrance supply the senses with
relaxation and imagination. All of which aid in the refreshment
of ones spirit.
We should thank Mr. Gurney for influencing his good friend,
Mr. Shaw, in providing beautiful floral displays for passers-by
and Park visitors. It was James Gurney, Sr. who first suggested
the entryways to the Park display floral arrangements. Both
for the Park visitor and the bustling community in the city
streets.
Flowers
at the entry gates of the Park harkens the would be visitor
to venture onward and see what lies beyond. These displays
can provide visual stimuli at 30 mphs for the community outside
the casual confines of the Park.
Flowers can peek interest for many months
in the Park. Late winter and spring provide an every increasing
bulb display. While in the summer months, the multitude of
annual displays are sure to please.
Tower
Grove Park propagates and cultivates almost the entire season’s
collection in the greenhouse. Some 20000 plants are used to
fill our beds and urns. The flowers of Tower Grove Park are
a mixture of old favorites and the exotic. Bright colors and
foliar textures are represented in the display beds.
Picture
perfect flowers. Many wedding parties and family photos are
taken in Tower Grove Park with the flowers as background.
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