DONOR NAMING
DONOR DEVELOPMENT - Chair: Linda Spina
Since 1986, the major goal of the Women’s Council has been to secure funding for the design, construction, and endowment of a major garden at the Dallas Arboretum. To that end, A Woman’s Garden was conceived and became reality with the opening of Phase I in September 1997 followed by the completion of Phase II in March 2006. Funding has been accomplished by the proceeds of events held annually by the Women’s Council and by the generosity of the benefactors who have honored the Women’s Council with financial gifts in the naming of features in the garden. It is with grateful appreciation that the Women’s Council recognizes these patrons and offers sincere thanks to each of them. These financial gifts have enabled the Women’s Council to bring to fruition the dream which is now manifest in this magnificent garden – a garden dedicated to all women.
GARDEN PROJECTS - Chairs: Sarah Andry and Pier Burgess
Throughout history, gardens and nature have always been associated with notions of Mother Earth, fertility, and femininity. A major garden of The Dallas Arboretum and internationally recognized for its own unique history, A Woman’s Garden was created out of a deep respect for nature and feminine ideals. As the garden continues developing toward completion, A Woman’s Garden has transformed the City of Dallas with its enduring legacy of inspired design. Internationally recognized Landscape Architect Morgan Wheelock’s visionary Master Plan continues to unfold through WCDABG Garden Development projects. Working year-round with Texas Landscape Architect Warren Hill Johnson for site analysis, planning, design and installation, the artisan “pocket” gardens throughout Phase II create aesthetically beautiful, meaningful spaces that of.fer the spiritual renewal central to Wheelock’s concept for A Woman’s Garden.
regarding Donor Naming Opportunities at
lspina35@gmail.com or 214-797-5966
Donor Naming Opportunities for
A Woman’s Garden at the Dallas Arboretum
THE BOXWOOD NICHE
A living jewel in the landscape, Boxwood Niche is an intimate, classical garden executed in a modern aesthetic style. Introducing a new cultivar to The Dallas Arboretum, the magnificent Green Velvet Boxwood are stately specimens which will eventually fuse into an undulating cascade of evergreen forms.
SET OF PLANTERS
A set of three limestone ornamental English planters in keeping with the design of Boxwood Niche.
CIRCLE OF HONOR
The Circle of Honor, a stone medallion at the center of the Boxwood Niche, offers engraved recognition honoring significant financial contributions by individual donors to the Women’s Council and A Woman’s Garden.
ENGRAVED STONES ON THE FLOOR OF THE PULPIT
The Pulpit is a heart-shaped viewing area overlooking A Woman’s Garden. It is a limestone structure with Bluestone flooring. The flooring offers engraved recognition to special donors.
MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN TREES
Throughout A Woman’s Garden, donor naming opportunities are presented in our collection of hand-selected trees, many of which are specimens unique to The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.
Bald Cypress Taxodium distichum
Blue Atlas Cedar Cedrus Atlantica
Dawn Redwood Metasequoia
Deodora Cedrus deodara x blue ice
Japanese Maple Acer Palmatum
Paper Bark Maple Acer Griseum
Mexican Sycamore Platanus Mexicana
