The Southern Agenda

GOINGS-ON IN THE SOUTH & BEYOND

GARDENS A Passage Through Bluegrass Blooms KENTUCKY Bourbon, make some room on the proverbial shelf. Kentucky’s newest draw focuses on botany, with a journey that links twelve horticultural highlights across the Bluegrass State. The new Kentucky Garden Trail promises a botanical bonanza, taking visitors from a Technicolor display of six hundred daylily varieties at the Western Kentucky Botanical Garden in Owensboro to a collection of eighty-eight conifer species at Baker Arboretum in Bowling Green. The trail highlights both well-known gardens and arboretums and hidden gems, says Kim Hydes, executive director of Oldham County Tourism, who leads the project. But “it’s not including everybody and their brother,” she clarifies. “Even garden clubs didn’t know some of these places existed. There has to be something special about the place.” Take Louisville’s historic…

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Garden & Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, April/May 2025

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