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Publication: The Kentucky Kernel, University of Kentucky, Cochran GA.
By Brad Gosser
One hundred acres of beautiful Kentucky countryside are right across the street.
On the other side of Commonwealth Stadium from UK campus, just off Alumni drive past Greg Page Apartments, begins a two-mile stroll through all seven major regions of Kentucky.
The Arboretum is a living museum that showcases the diversity of the state's native plant life. It also enriches the life of thousands of visitors from around the Lexington area, being for many students and area residents the nearest retreat into the woods.
Spring at the Arboretum has taken off running, and in its wake, flowers and trees burst with color. The park is alive with walkers and joggers, stoppers and gazers. Some are on bicycles, some walking dogs, others pushing wheelbarrows of compost or holding garden tools in dirty gloves. The objects of attention may be a rare flower, a school of fish in a shallow pond or a red-tail hawk hunting from the sky.