Jane Blaffer Owen designed Carol’s Garden in the shape of a Celtic cross to serve as a memorial to her daughter, Carol Owen Coleman, who passed away in 1979. In the original design, paths were lined with hostas and English Ivy, and Bradford pear trees beautifully crowned the garden and provided shade. Garden restoration began in 2013 with the replacement of the aging Bradford pear trees with a similar, but longer-lasting, species, the Cleveland pear. Hostas will also be replanted as the pear trees fill in and provide shade for the sun-sensitive plants. The young pear trees already provide a brilliant show of familiar white blossoms in spring.

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