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Planting The Seed

As plans began to take shape for A Tasteful Place seven years ago, Vice President of Horticulture JENNY WEGLEY (right) led a team that began to test which vegetables would best grow in the garden. With temperatures that can reach 100 degrees for months at a time and winters that get the occasional snow, growing vegetables 12 months out of the year was no easy task.

The horticulture team worked for years in the Arboretum’s greenhouse to gather data on the vegetables and varieties that would do best in the new space. Seedlings are grown to maturity and then transported to the Arboretum to provide an example of what can grow at that time of year. Lettuces, cabbages and cauliflower grew in the garden during the winter. Spring boasted beans. Tomatoes, peppers and okra are summer highlights.

This will be A Tasteful Place’s first summer, and Wegley is cautiously hopeful about the garden’s ability to sustain productivity through the summer. Growing vegetables that are both delicious and aesthetically pleasing throughout the year is rare. Wegley has been pleased with the results so far.

“It will be interesting to see how it pulls through,” she says. “It is going to be a great challenge.”

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My mom has been diagnosed with dementia and our family is planning for her care. Why should we consider moving her to a memory care community?

A: There are many reasons. Living in a community offers socialization as well as physical care. Being around other people, taking a class, attending a performance – these are activities that have significant physical, social, spiritual and emotional benefits for the person living with dementia.

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Pretty Produce

Guests enter A Tasteful Place at its highest point. As the garden slopes towards the view of White Rock Lake and downtown beyond, stone paths divide the neat rectangles of growing vegetables. A pavilion and lagoon flank the garden, which has a covered seating area and ciruclar landing overlooking the lake that is destined to host countless weddings.

Naud Burnett’s Kevin Clark worked on the lagoon’s design. Before development, the location had been a debris-filled drainage area. The pond that fills the space captures groundwater and is the largest body of water in the arboretum. It is hemmed in by a bridge, and a fountain is lit at night, spraying changing colors 20 feet in the air.

Vice President of Gardens DAVE FOREHAND (below) says this space is the last to be developed by the arboretum. SWA Group did the design work for the garden, which includes four tiered potagers, which is French for “ornamental or kitchen garden.”

An outdoor kitchen provides samples from the garden. Fruit trees grow outside of the testing pavilion, which sits off center in the space, so as not to obstruct the view of the water. Some trees had to be moved from the space and replanted in the children’s garden.

“We thought we wanted a little herb garden in the arboretum,” Forehand says with a smile. “It grew into more than an herb garden.”

Kitchen With A View

Architect Russell Buchanan received a call from McDaniel about designing an outdoor kitchen for A Tasteful Place in 2013. As the vision for the space coalesced, plans shifted from an outdoor kitchen to an indoor facility that could be climate controlled. Buchanan recalls the thought process. “We have this great garden, but boy, it sure we would be nice if we could use it yearround,” he says.

Balancing the desire for the building to be used for educational purposes and weddings, Buchanan and the design team put together a plan. The kitchen accommodates both educational and catering needs and is outfitted with cameras so audiences can get a close look at demonstrations.

Buchanan designed the building’s interior to showcase the same limestone that is used throughout the arboretum. “It’s impossible not to get persuaded with how great it is,” Buchanan says.

The pavilion’s highest point is 20 feet. The overhang provides shade for garden-goers without looming over the vegetables, which need sun to grow. “The space allows the building and the garden to embrace one another.”

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