Gardens’ 970 acres and is home to the Powell Gardens Conservatory which offers seasonal rotating installations and serves as the centerpiece for the surrounding gardens. Designed by architect E. Fay Jones, the Visitor Center offers an inspirational setting for educational classes, events, wedding receptions, the on-site restaurant Cafe Thyme and Perennial Gifts, the garden gift shop. Surrounding gardens include: Visitor Center Landscape, Conservatory, Terrace Garden, Conifer Garden, The Dogwood Walk, and The Dennis & Anette Young Magnolia Walk. Fountain Garden - Centered between the Visitor Center, the Heartland Harvest Garden and the Conifer Garden, this summertime favorite features a 42-foot diameter interactive water feature, surrounded by panicle hydrangeas, colorful annuals, burgundy ninebarks, and cannas. Marlese Lowe Gourley Island Garden– Tiered pools in this garden offer a diverse array of water plants in summer. Featured aquatic plants include waterlilies, lotus, cannas, and papyrus, which fill the pools with texture and movement. Pavilion and Meadow – native prairie grasses and flowers, burned each spring. Chapel walk and landscape – native oak-hickory woodland with native woodland wildflowers, including a collection of many varieties of redbud tree. David T. Beals III Woodland and Stream Garden – azaleas and rhododendrons, ferns, bleeding hearts, hostas, astilbes, giant butterburs and spring bulbs. Perennial Garden – more than 1,200 varieties, including daylilies, daffodils, hibiscus, and hardy asters and chrysanthemums, with ornamental grasses, against an evergreen background. Byron Shutz Nature Trail – of trail with native and naturalized trees, shrubs, grasses and wildflowers, including biscuitroot, draba, and prairie-plum. Heartland Harvest Garden – Powell Gardens is home to one of the largest edible landscapes in North America. This garden features many fruits and vegetables - some common, and some unfamiliar - and showcases "the journey of food from seed to plate". This garden features a French country style kitchen garden, greenhouses, a vineyard of native and European grapes, quilt gardens of local farm produce, and a youth education garden called the Fun Foods Farm. Also located in this garden is the open-air Missouri Barn, a beautiful structure that is home to concerts, barn dinners and cooking demos throughout the year. Memorial Garden - Located next to the Marjorie Powell Allen Chapel, the Memorial Garden’s path meanders through native wildflowers, lofty oaks, and a small native prairie. A trickling fountain attracts birds and butterflies to create a site that is vibrant and full of life. Perennial Garden - The Perennial Garden