Gardens - Smith County Master Gardeners

The Heritage Garden

Heritage Garden

The Tyler Rose Garden has many varieties of roses, particularly hybrids with a varied history. The Heritage Garden is part of the Rose Garden with a concentration of old roses which have survived through the years, growing on their own roots without being hybridized and without many of the problems associated with modern roses.

The Smith County Master Gardeners have maintained this garden, located in the southwest corner of the Rose Garden, for many years. Planted in this area, to compliment the heritage roses, are a number of perennial plants, giving a display of color throughout the growing season.

The Shade Garden

Shade Garden

Nearly one thousand linear feet of paved pathway meanders through a two-acre grove of mature pine and hardwood trees that connect the IDEA and Heritage Rose Gardens.

Hundreds of azaleas, camellias, and Japanese Maple trees showcase the garden and are complimented by an abundance of woody shrubs and herbaceous perennial plants that will survive with minimal sunlight. Smith County Master Gardener volunteers rigorously maintain and add new plants in the Shade Garden assuring that any plant demonstrated there will perform well in East Texas landscapes.

A bubbling fountain, an array of benches spaced along the pathways, and a bluebird nature trail provide an enchanting, peaceful, and tranquil environment where visitors to the Shade Garden will experience beauty in every season.

IDEA Garden

The IDEA Garden

Planned by the Master Gardeners and built with the cooperation of the Tyler Parks Department, this garden is the most extensive demonstration garden in Tyler. Its development has been a major undertaking of the Smith County Master Gardeners.

The Sunshine Garden

Sunshine Garden

This garden was designed and planted by Smith County Master Gardener class 16. It is a sunny yellow and white low maintenance garden planted mostly with perennial flowers, shrubs and and foliage plants including white Pope John Paul II roses; Grandma’s Yellow roses and a yellow climbing rose. While some annuals are planted for seasonal color, the perennials include plants and bulbs that flower from early spring through late fall including daffodils and irises; Shasta daisies and rudbeckia (black-eyed susans) and Mexican mint marigold as well as many other species.

To find out what the Gardens have planned for the coming year, browse to the What’s New page.

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