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Mynelle Gardens
4736 Clinton Blvd., 601-960-1894
www.city.jackson.ms.us/visitors/mynellgardens
Mynelle Gardens is the largest public garden in Jackson. Originally designed in 1920 by Mynelle Westbrook Hayward, it covers seven acres off Clinton Boulevard. With large azalea plantings, it�s especially beautiful in the spring, but the trails (some of them wheelchair accessible) that meander among the different areas, past ponds and small waterfalls, and over a series of distinctive bridges, make a trip to this garden a pleasure at any time of the year. As one visitor described it, �Mynelle Gardens has a collection of Mississippi favorites planted in a series of lush and picturesque settings. Among them are an English bog garden, a medical and herb garden, a rustic garden, an old-fashioned garden, and its pi�ce de r�sistance: a Japanese garden. Plants range from amaryllises, daylilies, gardenias, pinks, and camellias; to roses and Asiatic magnolias; to a number of rare and ancient specimens �some dating from the seventeenth century.�
